 Select sound vs. Damping, Functionality differences? |
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 Jun 7 2005, 07:37 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 23-April 05 Member No.: 7,354  |
Sound damping reduces the strength of damaging sounds. However, if I only have a select sound filter, can I just "tune out" the noise in question?
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Jun 7 2005, 07:51 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,073 Joined: 23-August 04 Member No.: 6,587 |
The select sound filter is not intended to do that, it takes time to tune in a select sound filter so high sped (noise grenades) and rapid, random oscillation systems (sonic disablers) would not be effective, I would allow something regular to be filtered out buy the select sound filter (such as the raw of a jet engine) but that would be a house rule and could easily be argued against.
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Jun 7 2005, 09:27 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 6,893 |
If I were a shadowrunner, I'd forego cyberears and just buy a pair of surplus earphones from a runway techie. Then, I just connect 'em up to my radio, and I lose most of the penalties. Considering that ear protection is mandratory at many firing ranges, I'm surprised that more shadowrunners don't use it.
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Jun 7 2005, 11:09 PM
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SSF gives you extra perception dice.
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Jun 7 2005, 11:27 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
Think of it like this. A grenade goes off near you. With Dampening, you hear a soft *poof*.
With Select sound filter, you hear BOOOM, go "ARGH MY EARS" and then turn off the sound with your filters. Of course the sound is already gone by then and the damage is done, so basically that did nothing, So Dampeners protect against sudden increases in noise, while SSF removes annoying background noises, mainly useful for eavesdropping or carrying (vocal) conversation in loud environements. |
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Jun 8 2005, 02:58 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 2,030 |
Because runners often can't walk around wearing earphones, and even if they could there'd still be the problem that earphones block *all* sounds, not just the loud ones. Loud sounds (greandes, gunfire, ...) are high peaks in the signal. Dampener cuts off the peaks to an acceptable intensity but you hear the rest of the signal unmodified. Earmuffs dampen the whole signal, and that's something a runner can't afford. Runners *do* want to hear those guard's footsteps, you know??? Or the gunfire in the next room??? |
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Jun 8 2005, 04:16 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
Pfft, who needs to live, really? |
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Jun 8 2005, 09:40 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
heh, this thread reminded me that there was some reseach being done in norway for earplugs that had a kind of sound filter system. basicly they would filter out stuff like strong engine noise and similar while allowing people to hear voices just fine. it was supposed to be used by soldiers.
maybe i can dig up some more info on them. |
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Jun 8 2005, 09:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 4-June 05 Member No.: 7,427 |
Devices like that have been around for years now. Scroll down to H-COMEAR - Command Ear.
I've tried out something like this before. They really do help you hear the quieter noises, and because all the sound you hear passes through electronics it can attenuates things that would normally do damage to your hearing. However you'd still need a DNI for quick on-the-fly sculpting of the frequencies attenuated or amplified. Plus you'd look like a complete dork walking down the street with bigass muffs on. |
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Jun 8 2005, 09:54 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
here is the stuff i as talking about:
http://www.nacre.no/ seems like its a combo of a sound filter and a radio, with the feature that the voice it records is the one you hear inside your ears when talking to yourself :P |
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