Skullduggery systems (a first time participant) came up with an extremely ambitious idea for their instrument. It was to be a jug, that would have a changing pitch based on water being pumped in and out. Ultimately, they ran into a few issues that meant that the effect wasn’t quite what they were looking for. They shouldn’t feel too bad, a bunch of teams didn’t succeed in making things the first year they participated.
What their instrument did do, however, I found simply delightful. The jug sounded just like feedback from the sound system. The contest was happening during a big music festival called the NorthSide festival. There was a stage and a huge crowd most of the time. They were testing their jug and we noticed that the band on stage (with a full crowd at the time), had stopped playing and was checking all their equipment. The sound guys were running around like crazy. They thought they were getting feedback.
We held off for a while and decided we would wait till sound checks to mess with them. While we wanted to cause trouble, we didn’t want to ruin the show for an entire crowd. As you can see in the video, the sound is very much like feedback. They would begin to play, then stop to track down this mysterious feedback. We even tricked [Tyler] the announcer that was talking over our local sound system in the Redbull tent (by accident, I assure you).
lol
That’s so evil man, I like it :D
I’m sure the sound techs and band members just trying to do their job really appreciated the humor in this.
as with any prank, it is at someones expense. We were nice enough to wait for sound check.
I see it as training for the sound techs. A good sound tech should know if the feedback is coming from their system just from looking at the mixer board and can even tell you what channel. Although with some hacked together band rigs, and depending on Caleb’s timing it could be awful hard to tell.
Side story: I run sound for my church. One time I kept hearing this ringing feedback that I couldn’t find. It wasn’t until I closed all channels and even powered off the system I figured out it was someone’s hearing aid. Now, I can pretty much tell what it is when I hear it. But I still get looks when it happens and people assume that it is the operator and not someone in the audience.
Standby for whiners in 3..2..1…
Personally thought it was awesome hahha, no one hurt, all good at the end of the day ;)
Oh god that is great XD
Not better than putting motion activated ultra sonic foggers in the portolets LOLZ.
that sounds disgusting
*snicker*
Audio-da-fé? What’s an audio-da-fé?
It’s what you oughtn’t do but you do anyway!
Need more hacker shenanigan videos!
agree
I have a ton of carboys. How do i make one of these!
all you really need to do is blow across the top.
to emulate theirs, drill a hole in the top section and blow across that. It actually worked better. To get the same frequency, you’ll need to add roughly 3 inches of water.
“all you really need to do is blow across the top”
Just like the jug band on heehaw. However there where another sort of jugs on the set that would be more fun to play. But I’m thinking Barbi, Misty, Minnie, Lulu wouldn’t had gone for that.
http://youtu.be/FQ5ob9B9yD4
My response to that comment:
SAAAA-LUTE!
haha yessss
LOL… Although you should consider karma may be real, and karma could be a bitch. Then again you may be the bad karma the band earned sometime in the past. :)
Bad Karma was the former name of the band.
I didn’t know that Bad Karma was the former name of the band. Interesting side fact.
Karma is always a consideration, that’s why we waited till a sound check and no crowd. It just seemed unfair to destroy a show while it was in full swing.
I thought it was very funny, and it showed the sound guys weren’t lying down on the job as they tried to figure out the rogue sound.
If you did it whilst the band was playing with an audience you risk getting the same vitriol from internet users as Gizmodo did with their tv-b-gone ‘pranking’ at CES 2008.
Classic douchery that was, and pretty much the end of Gizmodo, at least for their first-ever starred commenter.
First order harmonic for that jug is 25 to 35 Hz. How high is this mode I wonder, of course there is a second hole.
I can toot on a beer bottle, the mellow tone of course. Blow harder and the note is an octave and a fifth higher, blow harder and the next note is higher and sends sound mixers diving for the knobs! That is as high as I can go, but not the physics.
I’ll stick to using the jugs for drums. My harmonic flutes can do double digit modes on breath control alone.
Why cant I seem to find videos of all six participants creations??
I would think by now a recap of all of them would have been posted somewhere let alone here.
My recap is on its way. But yeah, no official statement from redbull, which is a bit weird.