Sound Expert Reacts to Best Engine Sounds

Apr 16, 2024

What's the

best

sound

engine

of all time, well, here to figure it out is two-time Oscar-winning

sound

designer Mark Mangini. Oh, my job is to be responsible and create everything you hear in a movie, except the music, and that's pretty much we'll play him the legendary

engine

sounds

and he'll classify it, let's listen to that first engine there were two samples in there, one the first It sounded like a chainsaw. I'm not going to give it a very high score, no, no. it felt light and ineffective, we could put it here where the audience couldn't see it, let's put it here below table level, oh my god, starting off very opinionated, okay, oh, the moment is, oh, and I was wrong, I didn't I did.

I know what that was. I think you will prove again that you are stupid. No, no, it was a 350 GT four. Many people say this is one of the

best

sounding engines ever released. Most American V8s use a crossed crankshaft. which features a 90-degree angle between the cranks, seems like a plus sign, but this 5.2-liter V8 called voodoo uses a flat crank with a 180-degree angle between cranks and that looks like a straight, flat line in a movie that would be before . the ineffective Focus next clip which is a V8 oh the first the burble I know you love the burble like a purple I will always lean towards the burble because I like the weight in the cinema one of the things we do to create impact is add subwoofer to those low frequencies and that makes people feel that it's often a visceral effect, not just oral, yeah, so if you turn on this engine compared to the first engine in a scene or movie, it's like a much more dramatic occasion. feels like something that can do the job unlike the previous car Shelby had nothing to do with this engine but it did have a lot to do with this oh one of my Le Mans foods yes oh my god you talked about cross-flat cranks earlier and the Ford GT40 has a large, unlike a flat crank, the cross plane firing order causes the cylinders on the same bank to fire in succession rather than alternating, this causes an overlap of the exhaust which produces that louder noise. deep this is one of the coolest cars with one of the coolest stories of all time it's a car that has made a good movie yeah it deserves to be up there for sure I mean I'm thinking you'll give this one some space , yeah, put something up, I think there will be some guys between this, this guy will live up here, okay, someone will probably beat him, but he will live, don't put it up there, no, no, no, no, we have a lot of engines to go, welcome to. the island Lush rainforest with a year-round adrenaline package Festival designed exclusively for you, this is the crew's motorized mascot available now and guess what I'm up to in the game, whether you want to tear up the streets of Honolulu, get muddy on a volcano or just cruising the beach with friends Motor Fest brings together more than 600 vehicles to help you embark on the automotive adventure of a lifetime.

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Well I'll just take under or just say let's look at right under and I agree after seeing the car I'm fine with it too it's a Porsche 3rs it's got that flat six so it was like yeah really kind of raspy on the low part, but then you have to hit it and build a flat six like the four-liter engine inside this Porsche GT3 RS. The cylinders are placed flat and opposite each other and the firing order produces a rhythmic note of balance. What's especially interesting about Porsche is that they tune their vehicles in a sound lab using acoustic chambers and superior automotive sound.

Porsche engineers saw the value of sound as part of the emotional experience of owning a vehicle, and of course, overseas Porsche, with this one you obviously hear the exhaust, but you also hear a lot of intake noise, yeah, yeah you know, but in a different way than the GT350, like yes, between shifts you can hear the engine breathing, so it's like exactly the musical exhaust that I had, it was almost tuned, so, according to the sound, what are the Emotions that a sound designer would associate with this sound. Precision and reliability. There's something about that acceleration curve that feels like the machining of this has very high tolerances and it's like it's never going to fail, so that's a good characteristic of a protagonist or hero, you can count on them because they won't fail, yeah you can almost hear its mechanics like working together yeah very refined it's definitely underneath or I'm going to make more space yeah okay so this car was the hero.

In one of the most popular anime series for car enthusiasts, of course I'm talking about the Toyota AE86 with the 4AGE four-cylinder engine, the star of Initial D, but we said put it here, yes, yes, we agree agree there and this is uh and it's a finely machined four-cylinder yeah, I said it's no surprise that Yamaha, known for its sound, no equipment or musical instruments, was behind the design of the engine head, which has a flow design crossover meaning the intake and exhaust ports are located on opposite sides of the head this improves airflow which is why the induction sound of this engine is so pronounced what is the lesson we are learning here the sound is important and it can make a car even more attractive it's like it gives off the feeling of being like an underdog it's because we know somehow it's only four cylinders it's trying harder than everyone else who doesn't love the underdog it's Luke Skywalker in the engine the following sound about a victory yes, I am deeply disappointed for some reason, I am stuck That type of engine misfire to me,

sounds

from a dramatic point of view like something that is broken or in which there is no can be trusted, it's just not in good condition and we'd better not count on this guy hearing you classify it here.

Definitely below I didn't think it could happen, but I think we are below the gt350. our first five cylinder engine there, that's probably why we couldn't place it in odd numbers, yes the drink here is the 07k, this is the Audi RS3 and it uses a five cylinder engine, the inline five is smoother and powerful than the four cylinders, but shorter. that inline six engines sound quite good due to the odd number of cylinders and the engine fires every 72 degrees of the crankshaft and the exhaust pulses overlap each other creating a very characteristic hoarse sound, yes, a very strange engine, something strange , but these things can make over a thousand horsepower to whoever recorded it because they put the microphone next to the exhaust, we have a lot of throat in that Idol and those first few revs, you know, there's something interesting about the flyby, the car disappears quickly at the getting to the microphone and the reason why it's also part of the miking technique part of the fun of recording pass awards there are two schools of thought on this: one is that if the vehicle is coming towards the microphone, you don't pan with the vehicle, what that gives you is very dramatic, as soon as the microphone passes, the sound disappears very quickly.

The other possibility is that you pan the vehicle and zoom out into the distance, next engine, that's definitely a dork, yes, you can hear the gaps, yes, yes. It sounds like a can full of rocks. What character would this be? This would be a bad guy. That engine will simply stall unpredictably. And you know, that's the best part about bad guys when they're unpredictable. Yeah, he's either a bad guy or like a. Han Solo or an executioner in a Top Gun oh you know what I don't know about this guy, but then he shows up again at the right moment, yeah he just jumps in savior, yeah the Cavalry just arrived, where would we put him here?

I think it's better than the previous ones because it adds a little passion. I think it's one of the best sounding engines of all time and it's fun and cool, also from Germany and the house of Volkswagen. This is a 3.2 liter VR6. It's a narrow angle V6 it's shorter than an inline six narrower than a V VW did this by staggering the cylinder banks and using only a 15 degree angle between them you can use a single cylinder head where most V6s are closer to 60 degrees and they have to have two strokes. That's right, so the engine packaging means the intake and exhaust runners have different lengths between the cylinders, plus the firing order is different to that of a typical V6.

The result is the famous Wookie sound that people call these Wookies and we said like Han Solo like a Han Solo but it was Chewbacca read beautifully done the next foreign engine I smell a winner yes that one is spicy I smell a winner I loved that one I know which way It goes, but I can't wait to see what it is, it's a purpose-built race car probably because it sounds like it's on the track, I think so, and it sounds f1-ish like it needs one of those starter motors, yeah, but then you immediately feel power, mystery and potential, yes this engine can perform miracles for everyone.

What you have to do is convince it, it's capable of anything, so it's not what we thought it was, it's not F1, no, this is the Pagani Zonda R R means it sounds really good, it has a 6 liter naturally aspirated V12 natural from a Mercedes CLK GTR. A V12 design causes a unique sound, you have two banks of six cylinders and each of those banks has a very evenly distributed firing order, resulting in a smooth sound with evenly timed exhaust pulses. Having more cylinders creates a higher dominant frequency because the engine is running. more times with each rotation of the crankshaft, these factors produce the high-pitched harmonic sound that shoots out of those characteristic center-mounted exhaust pipes.

The harmonics are a layer, you know you have a fundamental frequency that is probably the deep note, but on top of that. Are all these other frequencies adding together to create a polyphony that sounds more symphonic, maybe it sounds like a violin, yes, it's pure in that sense, sinusoidal, almost sinusoidal, the next engine is like Mr. Magoo's car and then He became a superhero, yeah, like you're talking? about the flyby like this it's like we heard a couple of sexy passes no, that's all we got and maybe that's all this car has. I would put him above these two cats.

I'm taking points off because I think he's the loudmouth. in the class it talks more than substance it is actually not a very good racing car so you are absolutely right this is the Mazda 787b it is a super legendary car it is a rotary that won at Le Mans but there is much more to it The story is It's due to similar regulations and just the time and year it happened, as if most people can't run. His car was loud and he won, but it wasn't a great race car. Kill me in the comments. He did it thanks to r26b4.

Rotor engine, which means that instead of using cylinders, it has four triangular-shaped rotors that rotate around an eccentric axis, since there are no pistons in a rotary engine, there is no reciprocating mass, so these engines can accelerate extremely loud in this case up to 9,000 RPM but there is more to the sound than just RPM that rap rap sound occurs on rotary engines due to the overlap between the intake and exhaust ports don't drive it on the street just drive it on the track on France next clip oh I loved that the first word that came to mind was operatic do you think this is an Italian opera, a German opera or an English opera?

I'm going to say Italian, where would you put it? maybe here it's Italian, you finally have your fanati, ah, can we? We talk, can we rethink it? I should point out that it's behind the Shelby, like in 1960. You've heard this car before because the last time you were in one of our videos you declared it to be the best sounding V8 of them all. The time I did it, I did it, one of the reasons is because it's a flat joke V8 that revs to 9000 RPM to produce an iconic Ferrari high pitch display. It's not just the crank that influences the sound of this car.

Mark, tell me they cared. the experience and they gave it a highly tuned exhaust system to achieve the perfect exhaust tones and I say the tones probably made sure to emphasize certain ones to create a cord from the exhaust and on Redline it's like hearing an orchestra of notes from the left side . the right side 75 times a second part of the secret of operatic singing and in fact in any music playing it is what we call vibrato, yes, the variation of a note because if you only hold one note it is quite boring if you interrupt it and create a vibration about 75 times per second you createinterest in the remaining foreign car.

This car is powered by a naturally aspirated 4.8 liter V10 that was built with acoustics in mind from start to finish and many of you think it is the best sounding engine ever made. Look, oh man, that's so beautiful. It will be. I'm debating where to put it first or second. I'll tell you from the beginning, well I hope Lexus makes a sequel, yes no way, almost everything in this engine is acoustic. Tuned from the surge tank to the grooved walls of the engine, this means that when the different components of the car vibrate, they all vibrate in harmony producing a uniform sound not unlike that of a violin.

Wow, wow. I get goosebumps because I wasn't expecting it, yes, but in the way it fits because Lexus IS their Premier brand and everything about it should be attention to detail and refinement and the highest technology available, a Of the beautiful things they did like we do in the cinema, we are constantly modifying hundreds of sound channels very similar to those in this vehicle there are hundreds of ducts and resonance spaces that could create sun and they attended to each one of them so that would have brand Harmony thank you very much for appearing in another video it's always a pleasure' You are really smart, thank you all for watching, if you want to see more