Testing the world's longest echo
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- čas přidán 18. 11. 2018
- Technically, the Inchindown oil tanks in Invergordon, Scotland, have the world's longest reverberation, but that makes a much worse title. We tested them with a loud noise and some very sensitive microphones.
Matt's musical experiments: • World's Longest Reverb...
Behind the scenes on the Matt and Tom channel: • Inchindown Oil Tanks: ...
Thanks to Allan, Alan and Preston for all their help on the day, and to landowners the Bannerman Group for allowing us access!
Edited by Michelle Martin, @mrsmmartin
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If you want some more ridiculous noises, do check out Matt’s video - the link’s in the description and the end card!
Yass
Do you know if there's any Impulse Response files for the space (for Convolution Reverbs)?
It’s official, this is now the ridiculous noise channel.
Thank god I like ridiculous noises.
@@patpat023 perhaps Matt can post the uncompressed wav file of the starter pistol and the full reverb tail?
how big is the diameter of that pipe?
This is what it sounds like when you drop something downstairs at 3 in the morning.
Omg this need to be at the top comment!
hahah true
bonjello creamy LMAOO
fool of a Took ... dropping a thing in a well
Or open those plastic cake containers so everyone knows
It’s all fun and games until you hear a different voice echo back
Wrong video oops
*And then the L4D2 Horde theme.*
"I LOVE YOU!"
Echo: "NO!"
Like in the grinch
oooooooooo
1:53 me at 3 am opening the cake container in the kitchen.
lmao
On my gosh, me in the morning taking a bowl out of the shelf
Thats the sound of toilet seat cover falling at 3 am. Those hard ceramic like seat covers are the loudest
Me when I drop a cup in the middle of the night
LMFAO so true
the text that appears during the gunshot is a really nice touch
My thoughts exactly
The only place in the world where if you fart, the sound stays longer than the smell.
speak for yourself bro
This literally made me laugh out loud xD
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
😂😂
Nice adtr
Have a concert down there and everyone will ascend into the afterlife.
The band "Disaster Area" would be a good choice...
Or no clip into the backrooms😳
A band such as mayhem wouldn't need this tunnel, considering how much their music is already drenched in reverb haha
Id like to hear home resonance or doom eternal ost there
How about Metal?? Huh
For a video about sound, it was a very deaf friendly one. From good captions, to the visual representation of sound this was really interesting. Thanks for making it accessable ^^
It's one of the things I appreciate about Tom the most. An overwhelming majority, if not all, of his videos are subtitled so I never need to crank up my speakers over some background noise!
As someone who's claustrophobic, this video was a master class in horror.
Get 100 men to sing the Halo theme together god damn it might open up a portal
It could be turned into a concert hall.
Gamma Foxlore. The Symphony Fox the echoes would deafen you.
Ooooooooo ooooooo oooooOO Ooooo OOoooo OOooo ooooh ooooooooooh oooooooooooooh~
Casual Bird 😂
Wealdstone Raider fax
0:06 don’t mind me just putting the pizza in the oven
cursed
R/cursedcomment
This made me laugh much harder than it should
Vorname Nachname 😂😂
Underrated
The professionalism of these guys is admirable, how one of them didn't try and squeeze a massive fart out is very respectful
Imagine playing the THX sound at full volume in there 😂😂
@@Its_Captain_Jack_Sparrow ???
The World would combust
"The audience is now deaf."
P l e a s e ! ! !
It would open a portal
Me: *sneezes*
Echo: bless you
BBBLLLEEESSS YYYOOOUUU
BBLLEESS YYOOUU
BLESS YOU
BLESS YOU
BBLLEESS YYOOUU
BBBLLLEEESSS YYYOOOUUU
@@franco3074 Stop
drey santillan oh no
Hold up
@@franco3074 What?
The fact that no one yelled “echo!” In the chamber is disappointing.
Midwest Siren Productions ikr, been waiting for them to do it lmao
I was hoping for "ping"
Severely disappointing
“How are you “
666 likes you are now satan
Imagine hearing Halo Theme there...
I would honestly just die right there and you’ll see my body float to heaven elegantly
Imagine chuting down all the basses, celli, violins etc. Also timpani. Piano sadly didn't make it.
I learned about this in my intro to audio recording and mixing class, alongside the world's quietest room (anechoic chamber); It's amazing when you start to explore the extremes.
Judging from that tiny hole you enter and exit through, this tank also offers another essential Royal Navy experience: the feeling of what it's like to be a torpedo.
that tiny hole is terrifying to me.
special type of people have a special hole.
and the other special type make it a opening and a exit
Or a pizza
Do you guys like cranberries?
Claustrophobic people might not survive taht
"check your volume, we're returning to normal speech"
more channels need to do that if there's a quiet bit in their videos
Gentlemanly AF!
I agree
the hiss sound of the mic sounds turned wayy up scares me.. had enough experience with.. hissssss.s.sss then BOOM!.. some massively loud voice or something.
In his recent video on Dasani water, there's a little warning for an upcoming car horn. He's good at that sort of thing.
Tony Ellen I was hoping someone would mention this, its one of the simplest, yet nicest things I've seen on youtube.
My business in the USA was noise control and I have spent many hours explaining to engineers and architects why their fancy designs create major acoustic problems with human communication.
I have major amounts of respect for someone who tells us to check out volume before they suddenly start speaking
The freaky thing for me was sliding through the pipe.
i would die of fear
Ok, bring you through?
*Proceeds to pull you through*
*sToPs MiDwAy*
stopping midway while your arms point like in the video aaaaaaaaah
Would it help if you were face down !
@@millomweb i think it would actually
0:04, every claustrophobic person's nightmare.
I dont have it but its looks so scary
Yea
I would love to do that
Don't expose me like that please
@@bruhmomment2999 looks like something we'd want to do as kids
I like how considerate Tom is, warning us to return to normal volume.
I’ve played around with audio production and it would be genuinely difficult to reproduce this good a delay and reverb in software
Oh I'm sure Eventide could do it. :-D
It's not at all actually
quantec room simulator
Not too bad now that we more or less have this impulse response hahah
@@Windiguana me want
suddenly sneezing in there must be quite the experience
ah, AH- *160 decibel sneeze*
Farting
@@pedroks7756 😂
@@denkisupremacy everybody would know
ACHOO CHOO CHOO CHOO choo choo choo o o o ooa ooaodoiodsoviozsvogsduigudygug uygc
“Yes this place was used to store millions of gallons of flammable oil”
Proceeds to shoot a starter pistol in the air
Julian D. A starter pistol fires a blank, and regardless shooting into oil or an oil tanker doesn’t actually do anything, it’s just a movie thing
Blanks still use gunpowder, which creates sparks and fire.
@@RainytheNB Good luck trying to light up the heavy oil residues with just a few sparks. It needs a lot of heat/pressure to burn this stuff.
The gas is the flammable danger
@@RainytheNB It wasn't a revolver, closed chamber means no gunpowder or "fire" can escape the gun
I have worked in the Marin Depressurised Wave Tank that is 250 metres long and has external walls that are 1.5 metres thick. The tank with waves and a towing carriage over it is designed to be evacuated to just above the pressure at which the water in the tank would boil at normal operating temperature. The echo and reverb were astounding.
That was actually really freakin cool. The amount of time it took just for it to finally quite down is insane.
Imagine playing the Windows XP startup and Shutdown sound in that place
Imagine playing the error sound
@@predatorman2 horrific
Amber alerts would be horrific
Aol startup
Get a class of schoolchildren.
I appreciated the "check your volume, we are returning to normal speech" as I had turned up my volume significantly high.
In my case, with some configuration, Ubuntu allows oversimplification. I turned my volume up and then back down.
Binging Tom Scott is the most life-affirming thing ever. You watch something like this and just sit there with a grin because it's just awesome.
My fave video of yours so far!
0:06
This sums up the tough lives of Mario and Luigi
Perfection
Rodrigo Castiel what a great comment!
Underrated
That's alright, the royal pipe Mario delve into is worth it.
Deniz Tombak I like how enthusiastic you are
This is actually the fuel tank of a Hummer.
And it’s still empty in minutes
@@karelpgbr But only if you drive slow.
Tell me you are American without telling me you are American.
This is not gold, this is diamond
A civilian one
While working under contract for Castrol et al Fairfax KC Kansas I was allowed in an open oil tank to converse with my boss'. That echo has lived with me since that day. Very hard to dissect word meaning in that environment.
Coolest thing I've seen in a long time! Thanks!
imagine bringing a choir to that place
one person alone would be like an entire choir down there
As a person in choir. That would suck for the choir. There is a happy middle ground between no reverb (think singing outside in a field) and too much (singing in a room like this). If you get too much reverb, anything fancy you try to do vocally will just be drowned out by reverb from earlier. Too little reverb and chords don’t sound right and it’s tough to stay in tune because you can’t hear the complete sound bouncing back at you.
It would be mud.
"And that, my students, was how humans were extinct 4.7 million years ago."
Imagine Freddie Mercury doing his "aye oh" here.
"Mama, ooh~"
do you mean
MamaaaAAAAAAAAA OOooooOOh
Lmao
Ayeeeeeee Ooooooooh!
Ayeeee-
Ayeee-
Ayee-
Ay- Hoooooo
A- Hoooooooo
Hooooooooo
Imagine singing Bohemian Rhapsody and you hear someone that sounds like Freddie
always learning so much from your videos!
these are always so well made!
"Check your audio, we're turning to normal speech now"
It's the little things. It's the little things that make us happy once in a while.
The scariest thing is its a room full of oil residue with only an 18-inch pipe to get out.
Agreed. I wonder if it stinks?
I don't think the smell is the problem you need to worry about. Any source of ignition is what you need to worry about. There's no ventilation, no easy escape and a lot of easily flammable and hard to extinguish oil everywhere.
Depends on the fuel oil stored -most fuel oils actually don't combust easily, if you dip a flame into it it'd extinguish the flame. Kind of the same with some jet engine fuel.
But once it's been sprayed it'll combust very easily (and so it is *still* dangerous.)
If there was any oil vapors in the air, you would be suffocated.
Must be American proof.
That's incredible! Very eerie knowing where you're standing was all oil
I imagine that the echo and reverberation closely models what goes on in Boris Johnson's head.
Ok guys we’re in an incredibly massive fuel tank, the walls are still leaking oil, let’s fire this little spark maker in here and listen
Hahaha right?
@Paul It’s OIL, it’s flammable, just cause it’s not a movie doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. With that logic, murders shouldn’t* exist right?
@Paul did you know hard cheeses such as cheddar can last up to 4 months unopened without expiring in good enough refrigerating conditions?
@Paul my pleasure
@@user-rm6wv7uz2e My eyes have been opened. Thank you.
Nobody:
The shampoo bottle that drops in the shower:
Shut up
@@BornotB-ij9xk no u
@Mein Schwanz ist kaputt no u
@ooferie oofs uwu You're sentences away from having what you wrote to me being an essay.Who's the bored one now?
@ooferie oofs uwu well you must be bored and sad if you're commenting on a 6 month old thread.
This is one of you're best vids tom!
Imagine an angelic voice singing in there that would be so blessing
Him: "This tank is 237 metres long and it's not meant for humans"
Also him: **Goes in**
I really hope they tested the air before they did that. People have dropped dead walking into spaces of that sort.
@@peppermintgal4302 explain how that happens
@@user-sd5ne9gf7b In closed spaces the still air over time separates and the heavier co2 sits at the botton. CO2 is poisonous even in quite low concentrations. Also did they perhaps mention it was at some point full of diesel?
@@user-sd5ne9gf7b you shouldnt sniff fuel.
@@RidhRidh fuel smells so good . People used to use it for incense
i wanted to hear them yelling and making weird vocal noises
BOOOB!
Ideal 'naughty corner' for a chimp that won't shut up !
AAAaAoaisuuUaa
I will always come back to this video
I can't describe why, but that is insanely awesome!
Sliding through that pole is literally one of my darkest fears I literally shivered
Claustrophobia I have it too
@@pony8765 must not reveal this on socials
@@hrsh042 but i think half of the world has it so
Then that is exactly what you're supposed to go and do. Again & again & again & again until it becomes so normal you don't even notice any longer. At that point you'll be ready to do anything.
@@doktormcnasty well i have a fear of breaking bones, doesn't mean i'm going to go out and do it over and over again...
Imagine some dude yelling BITCONNECTTTTTTTTTTT in there
The mental image I made of that is hillarious 😂
AND HIS NAME
IS CARLOS MATOS FROM NEW YORK
Hey Hey Heyyyyy
Wasowasowasowasowasowasowassup
it gives me chills. seeing him sliding into that hole.
I wanted to hear it on the other end aswell... more shouldve been done but cool to know it exist.
Anyone else have a mini panic attack thinking about going through that tube?
That hole was made for me
Heck yes! I'm sure I would be continuously worried there'd be an earthquake while inside a bomb proof cave fed by tubes that probably don't leave enough wriggle room to get out without outside help... What if your outside help went to lunch while you're in there!! AARGGHHH!!! *cold sweat*
@@ilwyd Well, as the God of Custard you're in no short supply of lubrication should you get stuck...
Yes can confirm I’ve Ben down there
ME
The opportunity to tell “one take” was completely lost. Way to go Tom
My disappointment is unmeasurable
@@incription and my day is ruined
This video was wasted well at least the ending is ok
"way to go toooom!"
Y'all are missing matt's video, go check it
Thanks for the new convolution reverb!
Love this new reverb plugin
you should have shouted in there
Or cracked a massive fart.
@@6yjjk Was going to say that
FUS RO DAH
One shout and you have to wait a whole minute for it to die down so you can make a second shout. If you don't, all you hear is a huge jumble of sounds. Bad!
@@acmefixer1 umm, that would be cool?
Love how they added small facts when listening to the sound so you dont get bored
thats a perfect place for covid-19 isolation ...
1:56
“Yo listen up here a story, about a little guy who lives in a blue world...”
That start bit. It looks so tiny but you fit well tom!
This is some soothing ASM- *_BANG_*
Your ears should now be profusely bleeding. You're welcome. Here's the complaints box [holds up shredder].
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew xD
“Oil still slowly seeps back out of the walls”
America: 👁👁
This got me good, nice:)
Overused
@DaBabySmokesWeedAndJimmySavilleSmokesBudWithMyNan ''your mom
o0 from Texas!
lmaoo
Didn't expect quality ASMR from Tom
I love your videos so much
I could hear Freddie Mercury singing his "EHO" note in there
That's creepy
@Untrepid One :))
If anyone visit's there i want to hear someone yell out "EEEEEEEEEEEEO!" and put it on youtube for the world to see
I was thinking the exact same and entered this video thinking ik commenting the exact same thing
thank you very much for the volume warning at the end!
Oh my claustrophobia. That is terrifying Tom, terrifying indeed.
wow
*video starts
*Claustrophobia intensifies*
They just leave you with your arms pinned in the little tube...
@@user84074 duudeee
This is awesome, but I’m slightly disappointed you didn’t yell something like “BOLLOCKS!” and then show how that reverberated 🤔
+Zylon FPV I know that I would have just been shooting swear words down the tunnel for a long time.
Tom might be a bit more mature than us lot, unfortunately.
I was hoping for any kind of voice echo to be honest :(
bogies
TITS!
Yelling BOLLOCKS, cant stop giggling, nice one.
1:52 The sound of you taking a step in the house when you're trying to be quiet after dark.
I never knew Tom did an asmr video. You learn something new everyday
Be careful or you’ll wake the Balrog
What did you say?
@@pyxylation fly, you fools.
Fool of a Took!
Êl síla erin lû e-govaned vîn.
Hey, I just watched that.
You couldn't stick me through that tiny pipe. I'd die of heart failure in 2 seconds
you'll be through in one
We watched this in science class today.
It was a great excuse to watch Tom Scott in class :D
Imagine that you hear this echo somewhere in the caves and it sounded creepy
couldn't you just yelled?
goddammit i wanted to compare it to regular echo
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Huh, I thought the biggest echo chamber in the world was twitter :P
Who are you mad at specifically?
Got em!
AFaultyClockworkOrange +
Brilliant
It definitely is, but abstract concepts aren't as fascinating to showcase.
Thank you so much for the "check your volume" warning. Although I wasn't listening on headphones, I can imagine you saved lots of ears.
I would have loved something more simple like you shouting _"Hello?"_ to see the effect. That would definitely have given me a better idea of how strong the echo in that chamber is.
I would never trust that they wouldn't lock me inside forever in this tank.
Just imagine. You couldn't even bang on the entrance and shout "hey!" without blasting your own eardrums.
Cask of Amontillado plus sensory overload
well that's how oil is made
0:05 imagine mr incredible tryna fit in that
Do you mean elastigirl
I've had to clean normal oil tanks before and usually the process creates a lot of noise, especially in the confined space of a tank. I can't imagine how loud it would be in this particular tank.
gotta like that Scott warns us before returning to talking
Oh, come on! You seriously didn't shout hello or something like that?
Nah, they fired a pistol
(It's 3am)
Me: Aight, imma sleep now
CZcams: *Wanna hear the world's longest echo?*
This would be a great studio for a space horror movie, fantastic atmosphere for it
okay but i cant be the only one who heard a PS2 powering on no?
Omg yeesssss
Yes im so glad you said it
When?
@@DwightLivesMatter When the pistol was fired, of course.
Wow I thought the same thing! it sounds like the waves.
I love the camera turn to Tom's smile when the reverb is prominent, makes me feel content there's still human passion to obscure trivia
I wonder if apps like Audition have a 'Giant Oil Tank' effects preset? I'm thinking that the reason they were whispering was to avoid creating a reverb of their voices that would spoil the starting pistol reverb. This is one of Tom's coolest videos IMO.
This reminds me of the time when I was a kid years ago growing up in Greenlawn New York they built a new water tank on West Sanders Street still didn't close the access hole we climbed inside and played with the Echo it was so awesome🤯🤯🤯
*fires a starting pistol*
“Godammit, you told me it wouldn’t be storming today!”
You didn’t say “HEY” like what the hell
Build the helicopter
@@rebeccaturner1123 AND OFF TO THE RESCUE!
This is incredible.
Thank you Tom very cool
One of the most impressive echoes I've ever heard was from a small island in a large lake. Far off in the distance was a monolithic rock face.
We would yell a few words towards the mountain, then wait ... a long time. (I was just a kid, but as I remember it, it was maybe 10 or 20 seconds.) When the echo finally got back to us, it was just a low thunder-like rumble because the sound had distorted so much on the round-trip journey.