I think the biggest obstacle would be from your perspective it would just be a steady annoying sound. TIEs only have their characteristic howl when doing a flyby. But if you’re aware of that and you one want it for how it sounds as you drive by, I’d think just playing the tone through the speakers would do.
There’s an audio illusion that’s somewhat analogous to the barber pole illusion — instead of a pattern which appears to always go up or down, you can have a sound which seems to always go up or down in pitch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Yeah, it’s the Doppler effect that creates those cool sounds from the bystanders perspective.
Replace your gasoline engine with a pair of ion engines
You might be able to tune the radio to an AM frequency that picks up the engine interference.
get a hole drilled in your tailpipe
The whistles go wooooooooo
WOO WOO!
TIE fighters fly around in space, space has no air, sound are vibrations of air, no air, no sound.
So if you can make your car completely quiet, then it sound like a TIE fighter.
But since that is impossible since you want to br driving around, you should duct tape some speakers to the roof and have a synth generate a continous TIE fighter tone, which would create tyw proper effect
And if you play it loud enough, you’ll get a free police escort!
Look, in whatever far away galaxy the Star Wars movies are set in, sound travels through space. Pretty self evident since every spacecraft and space weapon in those movies is loud af.
My head cannon is that TIE fighters don’t make sound exactly as they zip around, but they do something to the electromagnetic fields or some other techno babble thing that causes other things, like droids, space ships, rocks, or skulls to scream with a Doppler effect like that as they zip by.
40000 rpm wenkel engine with a muffler.
Make it unobtrusive. Otherwise reconsider
It’d be all through intake, not exhaust. That’s where you get all the sucky whoosh noises sound from. Anything from the exhaust will be too explosive. Effectively, harnessing the sound of air being dragged into the engine for combustion, not being banged out.
The original sound was inspired by the sirens attached to Stukas in WW2, the siren wailing as the plane dove and air rushed through. These were added simply to terrify people.
However, there is rotaries. Adding rotary blocks to a rotary engine will make a much smoother scream sound, like the V10s and V12s of earlier Formula 1 cars. Though, it will be lacking that open air sound. Maybe with the right exhaust and intake, a tone could be achieved.
If you went EV, electric motors are high-pitched unless very large. You could combine this sound with air vents—catching air like the Stukas’ dive bomb air sirens—to get something similar, however, the air vents will be dependent on making noise with constant speed, disassociated with the engine. The TIE fighter also has no electric noise, it’s all terrifying roar…well, whatever the inhaling version of a roar is.
Just make mouth sounds.
By far the simplest AND the best solution.
Just keep playing it on your stereo.
No, stereos are playing imperial march
Maybe if you have an electric car you could hack in and replace the space ship sounds with your preferred space ship sounds. Might be illegal though.
You’re probably joking, but in case you’re not - those sounds are just what brushless motors sound like. There’s nothing you can heck.
If you’re joking, good one!
Some cars do actually make an electronic sound to warn pedestrians of their presence. Mostly European cars, and the little hairdresser’s Jeep thing I forget the name
The artificial sounds are legally required at low speeds, at least in the US and Europe. In the US electronic sounds are required at speeds below 30 kph. In the EU I think it’s 20 kph. At faster speeds the sounds of wheels on the road and such make electric and hybrid cars basically as loud as ICE cars.
There are very specific rules about the noises. It looks like there was some effort in the US to allow user-selectable sounds, but it didn’t work out. I found some info here, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/07/13/2022-14733/federal-motor-vehicle-safety-standards-minimum-sound-requirements-for-hybrid-and-electric-vehicles
Yes, my hybrid does this. And makes a super annoying louder sound when put in reverse.
Apparently with a laptop and some time you can disable the loud ass reverse beeping Ford makes their hybrids do. Probably illegal but it’s super annoying sounding like a giant work truck to back up my escape and no cop is going to say anything if my car doesn’t beep since 99% of consumer cars don’t do it
I have a 2016 Ford C-Max Hybrid SE and the only reverse beeping it makes is if someone or something is behind me as I’m backing up. The beeping is only heard from inside. Hmmm… I better verify that in the morning when someone is available to help me test…
Mines a 2021 escape, as soon as it’s put into reverse it has external beeps like a box truck to warn people since it’s in electric propulsion and makes almost no noise.
I just asked my wife and she confirmed that there are no beeping sounds from it when I’m backing up.
Toyota does an “angel hum” sound on their hybrids.
Fiats do it too but it’s usually just because the alternator’s fucked
Fix
It
Again
Tony
You’re probably joking, but in case you’re not: Electric cars must make an artificial sound on low speeds in Europe to alert people. The motor is too quiet on its own.
Well, only if they are below a certain limit. They don’t have to have an artificial sound, but they have to exceed a certain threshold.
He may not, maybe he’s talking about the sound when the car isn’t fast enough to alert people on the street, just to let know that something is coming. It shut at a certain speed I think
Yup that’s what I was talking about.
Oh woops, I had no clue that was a thing.
Is this an original idea or did you hear a car going wyeeeeeeaaaaaa and then decided that you wanted to do the same?
In any case, I commend your endeavour, good luck sir.
Bolt one end of some sheet metal to your bumper, leaving the other end to scrape along the ground. Should generate the required NYAAAUUUGGHHH sound wherever you go.
