The Spa 6Hour 2010 - Page 38

Tim the Grey · 12 Oct 2010, 23:19 (Ref:2774077)

One for Mr.Wills...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincent_martin/5037395484/

No, not mine.

grantp · 13 Oct 2010, 00:47 (Ref:2774104)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim the Grey

One for Mr.Wills...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincent_martin/5037395484/

No, not mine.

Hmm. Some very nice shots on the Flickr stream and the related web site.

One of the things about Mr. Wills and circuit shots is his high availability. Point the camera at the track and press the shutter button randomly for a few minutes and there's a good chance of RW being in a few frames.

zefarelly · 13 Oct 2010, 08:13 (Ref:2774202)

I'll be properly impressed when he's driving 2 cars at the same time

**John Turner** · 13 Oct 2010, 08:43 (Ref:2774215)

Well, he's certainly driven two cars in the same race .... just not at the same time .... yet!

wolf sun · 13 Oct 2010, 18:29 (Ref:2774488)

While going through my Six Hour pictures, I came across those two of Brian Jolliffe(spelling?) getting it wrong at Les Combes...

...but luckily hitting nothing.

wolf sun · 13 Oct 2010, 18:32 (Ref:2774489)

...and a mushroom...

zefarelly · 13 Oct 2010, 18:37 (Ref:2774492)

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf sun

...and a mushroom...

Is this what the guys that sign off some of the 6 hour cars HTP's eat?

wolf sun · 16 Oct 2010, 17:10 (Ref:2775818)

Something a bit different:

Stereo recording of cars approaching Rivage during the Six Hours race. Works best with headphones...anybody able to name the cars?

grantp · 16 Oct 2010, 17:31 (Ref:2775822)

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf sun

Something a bit different:

Stereo recording of cars approaching Rivage during the Six Hours race. Works best with headphones...anybody able to name the cars?

Nice.

I could foresee another competition thread from this, though I'm not sure now many people would have sound tracks avialable.

Alan Morgan · 16 Oct 2010, 21:00 (Ref:2775893)

I loved Wolf Sun's audio clip. It reminded me of another clip I have on my PC, back from the days when F1 Ferraris had V12 engines - turn the volume up...

http://www.alanmorgan.plus.com/F1Ferrari1[1].mp3

Sorry - nothing whatsoever to do with the Six Hours, and I know the cars had paddle shifts, but if that doesn't give you goosebumps, then, well maybe you should be thinking about taking up indoor bowls...

**John Turner** · 17 Oct 2010, 09:06 (Ref:2776018)

Guys, I really, really, REALLY will be splitting this lot up soon into different threads. Now what was this thread about? Oh, yeah, Spa!

**John Turner** · 17 Oct 2010, 09:46 (Ref:2776088)

OK, that's done it; the helmets have gone to another place!:-

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125180

And I still might split off the discussion re Photography technique too, despite what Grant says!

**John Turner** · 17 Oct 2010, 12:56 (Ref:2776139)

Bitten the bullet. Photo chat here:-

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125183

zefarelly · 17 Oct 2010, 20:04 (Ref:2776276)

what about a motorsport music thread

its going to be histrionic regardless!

midgetman · 17 Oct 2010, 20:37 (Ref:2776294)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan Morgan

I loved Wolf Sun's audio clip. It reminded me of another clip I have on my PC, back from the days when F1 Ferraris had V12 engines - turn the volume up...

http://www.alanmorgan.plus.com/F1Ferrari1[1].mp3

Sorry - nothing whatsoever to do with the Six Hours, and I know the cars had paddle shifts, but if that doesn't give you goosebumps, then, well maybe you should be thinking about taking up indoor bowls...

Somewhere up in the loft I've got a record "The Sounds of Grand Prix" - I know, sad, but it's all there was for entertainment in the 60s. One of the sounds was cars going through the Masta Kink - he said hurriedly coming back on thread before JT notices

Cooper Maserati, Ferrari, BRM etc etc. If I can work out how to convert it to mp3 I'll get it on my web site.

grantp · 17 Oct 2010, 23:35 (Ref:2776361)

Quote:

Originally Posted by midgetman

Somewhere up in the loft I've got a record "The Sounds of Grand Prix" - I know, sad, but it's all there was for entertainment in the 60s. One of the sounds was cars going through the Masta Kink - he said hurriedly coming back on thread before JT notices

Cooper Maserati, Ferrari, BRM etc etc. If I can work out how to convert it to mp3 I'll get it on my web site.

Is this a 'record' as in a vinyl thing, round, black, grooves and all?

Do you still have one of those funny motor driven devices that used to spin the disk around and attempted to slice them up with a needle?

If so, depending on th output from the cartridge, it may be a case of plugging the leads into to the 'Line In' of a computer sound card and setting a Audio ripping device to work with 'Line In' and then just play the disk. Or it may not. Much depends on output levels from the cartridge.

grantp · 17 Oct 2010, 23:38 (Ref:2776362)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan Morgan

I loved Wolf Sun's audio clip. It reminded me of another clip I have on my PC, back from the days when F1 Ferraris had V12 engines - turn the volume up...

http://www.alanmorgan.plus.com/F1Ferrari1[1].mp3

Sorry - nothing whatsoever to do with the Six Hours, and I know the cars had paddle shifts, but if that doesn't give you goosebumps, then, well maybe you should be thinking about taking up indoor bowls...

Lovely sounds Alan. Enjoyed that. Thanks.

Every now and again I hear similar through my 'office' window. It helps the day go by.

delcomb · 18 Oct 2010, 01:31 (Ref:2776379)

Quote:

Originally Posted by midgetman

If I can work out how to convert it to mp3 I'll get it on my web site.

I transferred some LPs to mp3 a while ago. You have to use the output from an amplifier that the turntable is connected to. The output from the turntable needs a pre-amp plus equalization before getting sampled. I connected my amp line-out to the line-in on my PC sound system (light blue connector). You will need an RCA-to-1/8 stereo adapter to connect the two. Use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to capture the signal. You can edit inside Audacity to eliminate any pops. It uses the LAME mp3 encoder which you have to download separately. The Audacity Wiki has instructions and sources for mp3 encoding. I had to play around a bit to figure out how to get good quality sound.

Doug E.
'61 Dreossi Canada Class

morninggents · 18 Oct 2010, 09:13 (Ref:2776532)

If so, depending on th output from the cartridge, it may be a case of plugging the leads into to the 'Line In' of a computer sound card and setting a Audio ripping device to work with 'Line In' and then just play the disk. Or it may not. Much depends on output levels from the cartridge.[/QUOTE]

There is a device you can buy. My nephew bought me a 'Vinyl-to-MP3 Turntable' last Christmas to convert the juke box records to MP3. It's made in China by ION and is called the Contour LP. Don't know the cost as it was a gift but I'm sure Mr Google will know.

grantp · 18 Oct 2010, 10:23 (Ref:2776570)

Quote:

Originally Posted by delcomb

I transferred some LPs to mp3 a while ago. You have to use the output from an amplifier that the turntable is connected to. The output from the turntable needs a pre-amp plus equalization before getting sampled. I connected my amp line-out to the line-in on my PC sound system (light blue connector). You will need an RCA-to-1/8 stereo adapter to connect the two. Use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to capture the signal. You can edit inside Audacity to eliminate any pops. It uses the LAME mp3 encoder which you have to download separately. The Audacity Wiki has instructions and sources for mp3 encoding. I had to play around a bit to figure out how to get good quality sound.

Doug E.
'61 Dreossi Canada Class

Hi Doug!

Welcome to the forum.

I cheated a bit and got a deck that offered direct output compatibility. (Not the ION mentioned by morninggents, that was not around at the time.) It mostly worked well, though it did pick up some audible bearing rumble in the gaps between tracks - authentic for period I thought!

For 60s/70s vinyl the results were interesting. Some of the disks sounded much better played on that turntable and converted to MP3. Others showed up just how poor the original recordings were, though the results were much the same as listening to the same albums on their subsequent CD releases. Which, I suppose, is an indication that the conversion to MP3 is really quite successful!

morninggents · 18 Oct 2010, 11:48 (Ref:2776608)

Forgot to mention that the ION conversion from vinyl to MP3 works really well. You get all the hiss and crackle from the original record.

midgetman · 18 Oct 2010, 12:31 (Ref:2776624)

Quote:

Originally Posted by grantp

Is this a 'record' as in a vinyl thing, round, black, grooves and all?

Do you still have one of those funny motor driven devices that used to spin the disk around and attempted to slice them up with a needle?

Ah, hadn't thought of that, not sure if I have LOL!

Mr Turner, my apologies, you'd just got rid of the peripherals to other threads and now I've got them talkign about audio things

wolf sun · 18 Oct 2010, 13:06 (Ref:2776643)

Uh-Huh, I'm desperately trying to keep shtumm on the subject, hahaha.

**John Turner** · 18 Oct 2010, 13:51 (Ref:2776665)

I hear an AUDIBLE self sigh of self resignation, or is that little man in my head revving up to persuade me toward yet another new thread.

midgetman · 19 Oct 2010, 07:02 (Ref:2776971)

If you did John, would that be a RECORD? I hope you don't think there's any NEEDLE going on here. We're just getting in the GROOVE on this subject. And that's my VINYL word.

Sorry.

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