The Drydock - Episode 225

[@Drachinifel]

Pinned post for Q&A :) NOTE - missing Death Star Sounds: drachinifel.squarespace.com/s/DSAud.mp3

[@Knight6831]

Frankly its up to you, but i say keep the system you have

[@SuperchargedSupercharged]

Just a simple question. On the converted crane ships like the Oregon, how much can those cranes actually lift, are they hydraulic or something else?

[@John.0z]

An Essex-class carrier was also offered o the Royal Australian Navy, particularly for the requirement that led to the purchase of HMAS Melbourne. The other reason for the choice of the British designs I heard when young was that they were easier to seal should they be threatened with nuclear fallout.

[@carloschristanio4709]

What went into the japanese night fighting doctrine?

[@mikemcghin5394]

Hallo drachinifel what is the pounder measurement system how does it work with the guns of the time periods you talk about

[@rogersmith7396]

Yes the Death Star siren would be completely silent in the vacume of space. You are spot on there Drache. I think a steam horn would sound different than an air or electric horn. I will go with steam powered.

[@nopenope8418]

Yeah, there are no noise at all

[@Drachinifel]

Mp3 of the noises linked in the pinned post

[@marhawkman303]

@@Drachinifel heh, my take was a person in hollywood had HEARD a Naval alarm... and just made up something similar to a Naval alarm without directly copying it.

[@rogersmith7396]

@@Drachinifel Maybe too precise for your own good.

[@salamisalesexpress]

Its definitely a steam siren of some sort. Look of videos of SS Shieldhall and its steam siren. You can get some distinctive sounds out of one of those depending on how you play with the steam feed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKviZSGn91-rKs

[@ModernKnight]

Thanks for the shout-out and kind words. Those medieval battle standards are hard to carry when riding in armour, and made you a huge target on the battlefield, but were also a great honour...

[@riverraven7359]

Sounds like a Roman Legion Aquilifer , give your pride and honour to the hardest most stubborn guy you can find and watch the enemy get slaughtered trying to take it from him.

[@brucefelger4015]

look at a lot of the US Civil War Medal of Honor winners. quite a few of them were for capturing the enemy flag.

[@winghungyuen2726]

Wanted to just note that I could not hear your rendition of the altered alert siren when you were discussing the Death Star alarm.

[@cvproj]

Likewise. Neither Drachalert was heard here.

[@Ichijoe2112]

Perhaps some Bats heard it, while the odd Dog barked.

[@jlvfr]

same here, I hear nothing...

[@adarkstarz]

From : LucasFilm Ltd To : Drachinifel Please keep your day job, no need to show up for that interview next time you are in California. Best of luck, George

[@gregdurando3987]

same. maybe some sort of youtube shenanigans?

[@DazzleCamo]

Audio engineer here. If I wanted to make the Corvette sound into the death star sound when star wars came out, I would just play the tape backwards so the pitch is dropping and slow it down a touch to drop the pitch. That would get you really close without really even employing any dedicated effects processors or anything. So therefore, you're very close, just using newer tools.

[@leogazebo5290]

Being dub the "Dark Lord of the KZbin scene" is a bloody massive flex and a pretty cool one ngl

[@darrellsmith4204]

"The Bolivian of Oblivion"

[@fouraces9137]

Being the "Dark Lord" it's a wonder he hasn't sent forth his minions to swarm the room temp IQ road scholars

[@TDOBrandano]

I'd argue that the Bismark was scuttled by the Royal Navy, through the application of long distance self-propelled scuttling charges. The fact that the ship was scuttled in such a manner before all crew could abandon the ship might seem a bit disagreeable, but apparently such episodes of long distance scuttling of enemy vessels were common in wartime.

[@derhesligebonsaibaum]

I agree with this assessment. It could be that some of the German crew decided to help the British but the relevance of this action would be near zero.

[@josepetersen7112]

It's always seemed like a bit of a dumb argument to me either way. Bismark was dead, and the scuttling or not scuttling arguments have generally felt more based off of pride then rationality. This includes drach, frankly.

[@derhesligebonsaibaum]

@@josepetersen7112 isn't what you wrote precisely what Drach always says? :D

[@moseszero3281]

Most scuttlings are done to prevent the enemy from capturing the ship. Rodney (and the others) had no intention of capturing the Bismark. Seriously... I'm not sure if there has ever been a more 'eff that ship in particular' moment in all of history.

[@jordancousins1988]

It wouldn't be a Sunday without an episode of the drydock...

[@markcooke2713]

Monday here, ( New Zealand).... wish it were Sunday.

[@theswampangel3635]

Sourcing multiple weeks’ questions in one week’s Drydock seems like an excellent solution to me. I am sure the quality of the channel will remain outstanding whatever the decision is.

[@johnspurrell1200]

Possibly a categoization header on questions submitted. Then several might be combined in a slightly longer response.

[@steamcatapult2498]

I agree, maybe do two weeks per Drydock for awhile? See how the pace feels, if it works well keep doing that until caught up. If it still feels too slow, maybe try three weeks per Drydock?

[@gazeboist4535]

Agreed with what others have said along these lines, and regardless of what's done for the catch-up, I think you should consider what the target schedule is going to look like - maybe every other week is double length, so it goes something like (regular pace drydock -> patreon drydock -> delayed drydock -> delayed + regular drydock -> regular drydock -> patreon again)? Then you can scale the catch-up process based on this, trading how long it would take to finish the catch-up vs how much extra work would be needed.

[@glennsamson3050]

I like your idea of two weeks worth of questions per dry dock

[@arthog37]

i would add my vote to this as well - but heres an idea . with the patreon drydock with questions from the chat , you seem to run at about 3 hours for those , and i think its fair enough considering their financial support of the channel . so heres my idea , if your averaging an hour or so for a normal drydock , with say 10 questions , if you are adding the next weeks questions to help catch up , if instead of 10 questions , you chose 8 from each weeks list , your only skipping 2 , but you might end up just under 2 hours long which would give us eager listeners that much more content to listen to weekly and answer well and truly most of the questions .

[@LeCharles07]

I've wondered the first question a lot and kind of guessed that would be the case. Regardless, if you already know the answer or if it takes you days we appreciate every moment you give us. I've always felt like you were pretty clear when you're uncertain about an answer and you often at least touch on competing perspectives on debated topics. You are the perfect example of an objective historian and, I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say, we all thank you. ❤___ /🐉 \

[@bull614]

I second this statement

[@NorthWestV6]

I agree completely.

[@billbrockman779]

I enjoyed your guest video on the Tank Museum channel.

[@Kim-the-Dane-1952]

I vote for going with your suggestion to catch up with the questions. I think it would be nice to get closer. I do remember waiting for some time for an answer to one of my questions but that was quite some time ago now and I can only imagine how long it takes by now

[@bobbenson6825]

There's a lot of finicky nitpickery on the internet, and you get to be the recipient of perhaps more than your share. You do a great job getting the vast majority of the details right, and appropriately follow up. I'm sure it's easy to misspeak on occasion with your production volume. I love the comments that legit expand on your presentations or give personal or family recollections, they add so much.

[@vipondiu]

Hi Drach, in my opinion the best option is to scale up the current system and condense questions from more videos into each drydock until you catch up or reduced the delay to 1-2 months, which would be ideal. If you have to move upwards the threshold of what an interesting question is, to limit the amount of work into the next drydock, or make longer drydocks so be it, at least is a better option than flatout skipping a year's worth of interesting questions. Thanks!

[@tomdolan9761]

The Death Star alarm was created by combining the sound of a screaming elephant in a late 50s Errtol Flynn movie with the swooshing of a car driving on wet pavement. I work in a hospital and I was always amazed at how much louder the fire alarm is then General Quarters on the ship when I served.

[@UncleJonWard]

Sorry but those combos were used to make the TIE fighter sound effect.

[@nla27]

It sounds like the US destroyer siren at the end of The Guns of Navarone.

[@bisteveski]

I enjoy the content and defer to your best judgment as far as answering questions in the future

[@tomdolan9761]

The most notable exception to US post war ship transfers was the USS Phoenix, the third Brooklyn class cruiser which was at Pearl Harbor Dec 7th 41 and having survived the war was transferred to Argentina in 1951 , renamed General Belgrano and subsequently sunk in the Falklands conflict by HMS Conquerer.

[@spikespa5208]

On a similar note: to get a good idea of why some ships weren't sold to other navies, compare two photos of USS Flusser ( DD-368), one a couple of years after commissioning (1936) and another taken at Pearl Harbor in the summer of '45. Don't think any other navy would have wanted it. One sad looking, worn out destroyer.

[@tomdolan9761]

What’s the expression?Worked hard put away wet

[@johnspurrell1200]

I know it is just superstition, but changing a ship's name is supposedly bad luck. Changing it from a bird that emerged from its own ashes to a gravel agitator general's name was poking the fickle finger of fate in the eye of bad luck.

[@spikespa5208]

@@tomdolan9761 Exactly what my father said. He shipped home on the Flusser at the end of the war.

[@joshthomas-moore2656]

Thank you for answering my Death Star question Drach and you sold me on the altered Corvette alarm. As for the Drydock questions the issue with skipping a year is we'll be right back in the same situation by the end of the next year so it wouldn't really solve the issue, you could try a new year special Drydock where you just answer a few months worth of Drydock questions to try and lessen the scale of the list.

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

Cool to learn a bit of the "behind the scenes" about how Drydocks are made, and how Drach gets along with historians!

[@Dragoneye2828]

Regarding the naming convention from the beginning. You say the F4 designation was confusing, that's fair, but an even more hilarious example of that actually comes from the US Army, wherein if you say "I really like the M1" you might be thinking of a rifle, a tank, a helmet and probably 5 other things, so maybe it really is just laziness

[@witeshade]

I would suggest getting permission from your patrons and dedicating a patreon drydock or two to a regular drydock catchup. One or two marathons could easily bring your timeline up to snuff. You could even engage the patrons and let them vote on which questions to answer so that they still get a perk.

[@Exkhaniber]

Patron reporting in. I was thinking of something similar. Maybe even getting permission from the patrons to do *reduced* Patreon questions and then use a small block of that time to catch up a portion of the questions, getting closer and closer to being caught up as the months pass.

[@seanmalloy7249]

I remember, back in the early 70s, biking past and fishing off the pier at North Island where the Bunker Hill sat mothballed, and I had wondered why she was kept mothballed when there were already bigger and more capable carriers in service, and I wondered whether there was some negotiation to get her transferred out as a museum ship -- and then she was gone from the pier, with no information that I, at the time, could discover as to what happened. Your comments address a low-grade conundrum that has sat in the back of my mind for decades.

[@johnsykesiii1629]

@25:08 - there was a town near where I lived in north New Jersey that had a fire alarm system that sounded just like that, The blasts were grouped to indicate which district the alarm was being sounded for, e.g., four blasts followed by pause was xx district, etc. I believe it was Pompton Lakes, NJ.

[@MrSerenitysEnd]

I think your Idea of doing two weeks of content worth of drydock questions per drydock works. You might also want to keep the amount of questions you answer per video to that level once you've caught up and start answering patron question in the first three weeks again so you can cut into that week four grind you have while staying on pace.

[@johnkieth4537]

Merry Christmas to all! Here's to another drydock

[@MrArtbv]

HEY Drach.. YOUR sound effects didn't play. Death Stars no problem. As for a film example of British small ship sirens.. The British flotilla at the end of "The Guns of Navaronne: is a perfect example... In fact just went back and watched ending ... AND THAT IS THE DEATH STAR ALERT SOUND .. just slightly slowed. The movie has 6 British ships sounding the signal at once and they took the sound overlap... For 2.99$ Amazon Prime go and listen...

[@Drachinifel]

Yeah, some weird rendering issue, all sounds linking in the pinned post :D

[@alexkudzin4980]

@@Drachinifel Think you need to add a card to the video saying go here (link to another KZbin video) for the audio.

[@Drachinifel]

@@alexkudzin4980 YT took away the ability to add cards a while ago

[@alexkudzin4980]

@@Drachinifel that sucks….

[@alexkudzin4980]

@@Drachinifel no link option to link to another video you sometimes see in the corner of videos too?

[@Johnnycdrums]

You can get almost everything you need at a Navy Junkyard. I saw modern consoles, data link antennas, you name it. Stuff more modern than I was using at the time, lol, some of it. You can't beat a U.S. Navy junkyard. Lol; They don't actually call it that, but I've been in there walking around. It would blow your mind what they have laying around.

[@markseelye494]

I have never been a naval history buff. I found this channel about a year ago and I love it. Look forward to the new drydock every week. Keep up the good work Drach!

[@HyenaOnTheRoad]

This is always the highlight of my day. Thank you so much for putting these out! ❤️

[@m8rshall]

I love how Drach is more concerned with the community's opinion than sorting it his way - for my 2pence worth I'd say go with your plan of multiple weeks per drydock. It also gives a bigger spread of questions too, as iv noticed sometimes similar questions will congregate together depending on the subject of the video. Keep up the good work, Chris.

[@20chocsaday]

You are right, he is very considerate. He is also working hard to answer all the questions. Almost as if we need two of him. However I don't think that a franchise is an option. A thorough screening of questions might help combined with redirection to the spot on a previous Drydock where it was answered. Very possibly.

[@isaalghazi9131]

There was no sound for the two 'sirens' remixed in the Death Star segment. Silence is not a siren, sorry.

[@hughgordon6435]

Yup me and the ferrets are fine with current standards, seasons greetings to all!

[@jasonbirch1182]

Don't take this the wrong way but I listen when I go to sleep. Just because it's interesting but not information I need in my daily life so I can shut my brain off. If it's cars or fabrication or whatever I can't stop watching. Thank you!!

[@fouraces9137]

Drach, I saw a great t-shirt it said "I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you" LOL Personally I think you do a great job, thanks.

[@jimsackmanbusinesscoaching1344]

My best suggestion would be to go to the two weeklies per week, but with a modification. It seems to me that we tend to get a group of questions on a specific topic. This might lead to a "question special" that would allow you to concentrate some of the more off topic/fun/very specific questions to a video that allows you to remove them from the weekly segment and put them into a special. You could publish this on a "fun Friday" or a Wednesday when KZbin does not cooperate.

[@Ryvaken]

Friendly reminder that professional historians suffer from the same kind of self-selecting "only people who agree with us are allowed in our club" mentality. You have the benefit of working with a time period with a lot of primary source material; go back earlier and you're dealing with interpreting surviving records that have been interpreted for long enough that We Know what the Right Way to interpret them is. Working on my bachelor's in math my last math class was actually a HISTORY of math class and we wrote a series of reports about historically significant math people/moments/stuff. For my early renaissance period I chose Newton. Found a bunch of books including one that delved into his less scientific ventures like alchemy, and demonstrated how he utilized pre-scientific methodology constantly, in contrast to his usual historical place as being on the vanguard of a new enlightenment. I took the idea and ran with it and ended up failing the class, delaying my graduation for a year, and generally having a bad time. Historians do not like having their narratives challenged, no matter what kind of professionalism they have.

[@sugarnads]

Do an ancient history paper referencing immanuel velikovski...

[@truecerium4924]

Hi Drachinifel. I would have a suggestion for a video: what about British aircraft "carriers" of WW1? seems to be an often overlooked topic how aircraft carriers evolved. We are so used to today´s nuclear super carriers or the carrier action in the North Atlantic of Pacific during WW2 that we forget the humble roots. It might be interesting to review ships like the HMS Hermes or HMS Campania

[@gregbillman42]

I think the HMS Hermes missed the war by less than a year or so.

[@truecerium4924]

@@gregbillman42 she was a cruiser converted to "seaplane carrier" in 1913 but I don´t think she saw real combat action

[@randallweese1885]

I regards to the death star alerts discussed at 28:00. The sirens reminds me of the movie The sand pebbles with steve Mcqueen. The boat has a steam power horn used for an emergency recall that sounds similar

[@Borep_Yano]

suggestion for catching up on the questions: catch up on the backlog by doing 2 weeks at a time (maybe extend the dry dock slightly while you do this.... if we can twist your arm into doing it 👼). Then once you've caught up enough to go back to normal programming, to stop from falling behind again, address 3 videos each dry dock instead of the current 2. This does mean you'll have 3 spare regular dry per year, which you can use to address any additional questions you want (or god forbit, you want to take a holiday lol)

[@Alex-cw3rz]

13:05 one other thing is when you look at a lot of the nations that got Royal navy equipment, quite a number are commonwealth nations and therefore would prefer equipment they knew. There may also be a bias that they perceived this equipment as better (not saying it is, just perception) with the royal navy being such a prestigious navy.

[@vedranlatin1386]

Questions you answer are almost never related to each other so it doesn’t matter much from which video they originate. I suggest pooling questions from all videos into one queue and simply chewing through it. You can choose how many questioms you answer in each drydock depending on normal parameters and additionaly how far behind you are. This means you’ll be answering part of the 0:02 questions from a particualar video in one drydock and the rest in the following ine but who cares

[@tbretten]

Just keep the current system going. An ever increasing backlog of questions just guarantees an infinite amount of Drydocks, which is fine by me

[@Segalmed]

The Tristram Shandy of naval history.

[@jjsmith4829]

Thank you very much for answering my question from last week. As usual, your answer was very thorough and informative!

[@SynchroScore]

I can't say for certain, but I'm fairly confident I know how they made the Death Star Alarm. The sound that you were playing with was a steam siren, and that's a definite starting point. Unlike the classic air-raid or fire-engine siren, which produces sound by a motor-driven rotor, a steam siren operates by a jet of steam passing through the rotor and causing it to spin. This also causes the sound to abruptly cut off when the steam flow stops, unlike a air-raid siren which keeps sounding as the rotor slows down. Now, considering this is 1977 and they didn't have all the advance computerized gizmos that we have today, they _did_ have multi-track reel-to-reel tape players. These were used for all sorts of tricks (read about some of The Beatles' late work, for instance). In this case, the lower and longer tone of the Death Star compared to the steam siren was accomplished by running the tape at a slower speed. Now, you hear the tone decrease in pitch at the end, while on a siren, the tone increases in pitch at the beginning as the rotor spins up. So they slowed down the sound of a steam siren, and also played it backwards.

[@mikehall4121]

I think that you should take whatever you think are the (very) best questions from double the number of videos for each dry dock, but suggest that the videos should be an equal mix of the old and the new. So, half the questions you answer would be from a very recent video - that we can all still remember clearly - and the other half from an old one where even the questioner may have forgotten what they asked. The length of the drydock should not be increased - there are only a limited number of hours in the day that I can commit to watching KZbin - so the chance of a question being answered would be halved until you have caught up. I would not even try to suggest crieria for what is a "best" question but would rely on your judgement.

[@michaelcouch66]

The temptation is to come up with an answer that resulting in you overworking/overextending yourself. Whatever you decide to do, your health and well being are more important than answering the questions, so don't pick an option that spreads yourself too thin.

[@elliottjames8020]

I'm happy with the system for questions now.

[@TerryDowne]

I remember that corvette siren from The Cruel Sea.

[@connorjohnson7834]

I remember first listening to the fleet tactics video while rowing hay in a tractor and it's haymaking season again (New Zealand, it's summer down here). Maybe a solution to catch up the drydocks is 2-3 weeks worth of videos at a time but to keep the normal drydocks roughly the same length not having any patreon questions and saving all patreon questions for the big drydocks. However that may make the big drydocks about an hour longer on average so it's not perfect

[@Eogos]

Regardless of how you catch up on questions it might be best to only source questions from Drydocks in future rather than any other videos (perhaps a drydock a month or so behind the one being released) that way the questions being answered are always locked into the schedule of drydock releases rather than constantly being outpaced.

[@Tuning3434]

Woop woop. My body is ready! Please insert Drydock.

[@michaelcouch66]

Another alternative, every other week impose a "No Drysdock questions on videos" rule, so in a 4 week period you only have 2 with questions. That way you can gradually catch up (in a 4 week month you do 3 Drydocks and 1 Patreon Drydock, but you only have 2 sets of new Drydock questions, so you catch up 1 week every month)

[@apparition13]

Doing two per drydock is the first thing I thought of as well. Once you catch up you can then do two once a month to stay current. That way you don't fall behind again. I know I posted a couple questions about the Abdiel video, but the gap to the relevant drydock was so long I pretty much forgot about it.

[@tomdolan9761]

Regarding CV17 USS Bunker Hill I remember seeing her in the early 70s docked in San Diego.

[@RonJohn63]

0:33:18 Most of the underwater part of the ship that doesn't look like a fish is *the keel.* The actual hull is supposed to be shaped like a fish. 1:21:33 Keep on answering them in the order you're answering them. It's not great, but it's fairer than the alternatives.

[@washingtonradio]

Those who take their craft/trade/profession seriously but not themselves I have noticed are fairly easy to work with. They are looking for like minded people to work with. It's not that they always agree but they are serious about getting it right but are not excessively emotionally wrapped up in the outcome. A note on the Bismark, my personal view is whether she was scuttled or not did not change what happened to her; she was going to be sunk by the RN with or without scuttling. The RN had the fire power present to sink her and were in the process of doing exactly that. If she was scuttled it would have possibly saved a few more lives of her crew than if the RN continued to pound her. Arguing over this point is wallowing in the very unimportant details.

[@davidbrennan660]

22:28.. Drach is not going to get a Christmas Card from Vickers this year.

[@Hendricus56]

I would say, definitely don't skip. Less questions from more videos honestly sounds like a better plan. Especially since the most interesting ones will still get picked. Maybe create a form where people can enter their questions that you add in the pinned comment that it is a bit less video specific and more time specific (aka they get sorted oldest first). Generally they would still be from a certain group of videos but there would still be the possibility for comments from older videos to enter (aka when that is live for a few months, questions from some of the earlier videos can still enter, even if you normally would have finished that video for drydock)

[@SPR-Ninja]

The death star alarm was made from the wails of consulting "historians" in /r/askhistorians upon being called out on something they said. Also... Drach, you could always reduce the number of questions you answer by raising the bar on what is counted as interesting, then do 2 weeks worth per drydock, until you catch up, then its a 4/3 ratio :)

[@88porpoise]

47:35 The amazing luck of Columbus is just stunning. Starting from bad unit conversions (or lack of conversion) between units with the same name to the extent that basically everyone knowledgeable laughed him out of the room. Finding Spain in specific circumstances where they have plenty of funds and undertainty where to go, having just completed the reconquista, and with monarchs that didn't listen to the knowledgeable people. Then happening to run into land at just about the distance he wrongly believe Asia to be from Europe.

[@wswordsmen]

The only long term viable solutions for how to answer drydock questions is some method of combining multiple weeks for each drydock. The only question is how. Maybe, you can, after some other method to catch up, go through a month of questions and essentially group 3 weeks of questions into the 3 non-patron drydocks and instead of cutting the drydocks to be an hour-ish per video have roughly a 3 hour run time of what you thought the best questions of the previous month were.

[@duwop544]

Like the multiple week of questions, best balance.

[@kalbasbas]

I guess a lot of the researchers are happy to participate in the way that it gives them more visibility and helps them, more people are interested thus more people might work on this subject.

[@tomdolan9761]

I should think this is generally a forum about a subject we all share an interest and we can usefully contribute our knowledge and experience which occasionally contributes to your knowledge Drach. In my experience you stop learning you stop living

[@unistrut]

I have a copy of "The Sounds of Star Wars" and while it doesn't cover the Death Star in particular they do talk about the Rebel Blockade Runner siren, which was an altered recording of a ship's alarm. Ben Burtt really liked recording real things and modifying them - slowing them down, speeding them up or layering them, so it's entirely possible it's a modified ship's alarm.

[@keithskelhorne3993]

Ref the length of "streamers" on ships, it could also mean the "Commisioning Pennant" (or Pendant) worn by a ship in a navy, I know it was in the RN during the age of sail, not too sure about other navies. They were extended by a foot or so everythime they were replaced, so after a couple of years on a commision they got longer. Also when a ship is de-commisioned they have a pennant , I believe , 1 foot for every year the ship has been in service.

[@watchface6836]

The extended tone at 27:42 is silent.

[@tomdolan9761]

Happy Holidays everyone!!!! May your ship come in!!!

[@vikkimcdonough6153]

The Death Star siren reminds me of a trumpeting elephant.

[@JediKnight19852002]

With the sounds, it's almost as if they inverted the pitch of the corvette alert. Essentially take the low point of the pitch for the corvette and then flip/lower the higher pitches to their equivalent pitch down and then just dropped it down a few hertz.

[@williammorgan5320]

Refer to finale of "The Guns of Navarone". It seems to me the klaxon, or any air horn, can be adjusted slightly using different air pressures. Fooling around with air horns, using a ball valve, or simply constricting air flow (like kinking a water hose) can result in unexpected and weird tones totally unlike the original makers' intent. Tried it. Fun.

[@williammorgan5320]

In addition, muting the exit air flow (think: trumpet) is also another obvious way of tone adjustment.

[@salamisalesexpress]

Its definitely a steam siren imo. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKviZSGn91-rKs As you say, playing with the valve can get you all kinds of effects.

[@williammorgan5320]

@@salamisalesexpress good stuff. thanks

[@tb1271]

Umm... Drach... your modded sirens did not play. But them being British would make sense as they were filming in the UK and most of the military equipment came from ex-UK stocks.

[@rogersmith7396]

British Leyland made his sounds.

[@jame3shook]

Drach posted in another reply....Mp3 of the noises linked in the pinned post

[@LeCharles07]

27:36 I didn't hear anything. Did something break? [edit: I think something happened to the Audible files.]

[@jasond130]

Was listening on my iPhone, the Deathstar sounds he tried to create were just silent for me. Did anyone else have this problem?

[@aetius9]

25:08 Some of the modified corvette sounds you can't hear.

[@themadpizzler6081]

On the sound of the horn on the Death Star.... I recommend revisiting "the Guns of Navarone" when the ships are blowing their horns in celebration.

[@brianrenfree5646]

The Death Star's siren, sounds more like a cow just before milking. So says a local in New Zealand! On bad aircraft carrier conversations the two paddle steamers conversations. On the great Lakes must have made those escort carrier's look good.

[@leftcoaster67]

To bend a Star Trek quote. "I trust Drach's guesses, more than most peoples facts...."

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

Happy Christmas to you and Mrs. Drach.

[@Moredread25]

I like the idea of covering more ground for each Drydock until you catch up, but I would go even more aggressive and cover 3 weeks at a time until you catch up because if you're a year behind at this point it's going to take you a year to catch up to the point you are now. If you do 3 weeks it would mean fewer questions from each given week but it would get you back up to speed much faster. I did not run the math of how the conundrum, but it probably is worth running.

[@leftcoaster67]

Do what works for you Drach. I know I'm happy with the content!

[@keithrosenberg5486]

Questions from multiple weeks sounds good to me.

[@caminojohn3240]

Drach. Thanks for your take on the Death Star alert sound. Simple analog technology that modifies the amplitude and lenght of the sound. That sound clip was reused in Eps 6. I recall watching a "making of" video years ago and those foley artists would go just about anywhere to record sounds and modify and combine them to create the required effect. I believe you have enough Bay Area fans who would love to look at the original credits and track someone down with Skywalker Sound. It would make an incredible side trip for you if you come to visit the SS Jeremiah O'Brian, the Maritime Museum, and Mare Island. Who knows? Perhaps you can get some free sound effects for a Wednesday video.

[@dvpierce248]

Since reading more about D-Day, I was surprised to learn that they only used a pair of big gun bombardment ships (cruisers or battleships) at each beach. If the allies had scrounged up a couple more ships per landing, do you think that would that have made much difference? I seem to recall most of the amphibious landings in the Pacific theater used substantially more ships for shore bombardment, although that's obviously a very different situation.

[@buonafortuna8928]

Good job again Drak and good job on the Tank thing.

[@telescoper]

I like the idea of taking questions from two weeks at a time to catch up. Even then it’ll take about a year to close the gap. When that happens, you could keep the “catch-up pattern” and then have a free dry dock slot to use for something else. Maybe spreading out the Patreon dry dock to 2 weeks?

[@derrickstorm6976]

27:35 such a shame can't hear anything, would have been interesting to hear the intermediate version of the sound. But no worries:) Oh, either one os working. Such a shame indeed

[@chronus4421]

@27:00 - the sample possible death star alerts are silent

[@jame3shook]

Drach posted in another reply....Mp3 of the noises linked in the pinned post

[@genericpersonx333]

Technical problem: You miswrote the time tag for the question at 01:16:43, involving streaming flags, as 00:16:43 Putting this in two places to improve the chance of an early fix by Drach.

[@tomdolan9761]

Regarding a Super Essex I think the size and weight of carrier aircraft precluded such an effort I know the emphasis on nuclear as opposed to even conventional super carriers was driven by the combination of stack gasses and salt air reducing the life expectancy of aircraft as much as the reduction of operational expenses in fuel for the ship. That probably has changed with the introduction of modern diesel electric engines.

[@davidyoungs1482]

Also at and around Dunkirk, German subs were on patrol and, if you can believe the movie "Dunkirk" from a couple of years ago, torpedoes also took a toll.

[@TheCow2face]

Continue with what you have always done, it works fine I think

[@stevewhite3424]

There is actually a pretty good video out there that I can't find the link to right now :) that discusses the sound design of the original Star Wars. It's pretty interesting for example one of the sounds that goes into making the light sabers crashing into each other sound was them recording a wrench hitting a tightly tensioned telephone Pole stay cable.

[@ogscarl3t375]

Just wanted to let you know drach with the alarm question at the start of the video your edited versions of the corvette alarm didn’t actually play it was dead silent

[@TheKing1cobra]

27:58 TIL my headphones are not capable of producing whatever sound pitch/waveform that your homebrew siren is at

[@Solrac-Siul]

The question on 00:50:48 is interesting and made me laugh. I guess I would mostly depend on the individuals. I am formed in History and once had n interaction with someone with deep knowledge on Hans Delbrück and was told "why I was wasting his time" and "to come back "when i had the phd, that i was actually working on. And it is not the only case, I know people in particular in regards what can be summed up as navial history in the age of renaissance or european expansion and I am talking leading experts that would look at someone without a classical formation in history bothering them on a workday as non relevant mater or a waste of their time. So it really depends on the academics and even on their workload , a person can be very approachable one day and be a semi raging bull after . And to be fair I am guilty to an extent of the same thing, even if I normally try to treat people in a polite manner, there have been cases where I already had too much on my plate to be answering questions about military historiography ....

[@matthewgriffiths5005]

May I suggest a combination of jumping over some to say a month ago, and then maybe a 'special super drydock' made over several months that's just all the other questions? Obviously that's a longer time commintment to you and ultimately I'm sure whatever you choose to do will turn out to be a great system

[@gazeboist4535]

Concerning that tactics video - have you considered doing a video on Yi Sun-sin, or the somewhat unusual ships that Korean navies came up with? Or, taking things entirely in a different direction, what about river warfare, either in China or more broadly, as in the US civil war? How do considerations change when designing, building, or running a brown vs blue water navy?

[@jackvonkuehn9038]

I like the doubling up and trying to close the gap.