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.
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.
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!
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.
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.)
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.
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!
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.
@@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?
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.
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.
+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.
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.
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.
Physics teacher here. This is an interesting experiment as we can find the length of the pipeline he's playing into (or least one section, which most likely has a closed end somewhere) Using a bpm counter, I found that the song he plays has a tempo of 104bpm. Counting the measures, we find that it takes 2bpm before the sound he plays is returned to him. Some quick math finds that the actual time therefore is 60(seconds in a minute) / 104 (bpm) * 2 (amount of bpm for return) = about 1.15 seconds for the sound to travel from the sax to the end of the tube and back to him. Using the speed of sound we can calculate the total distance the sound has to travel. Sound on earth travels at around 343 meters per second. That times 1.15 seconds gets us to 395.77 meters. As that is the distance for the sound to travel and back, half of it would be the length of the section of the tube. 395.77 / 2 = 197.89 meters deep in ur mom lmao
"This tank was professionally cleaned when the Navy decommissioned it in the 90s, but old oil still slowly seeps back out of the walls.", what a line to put as the echoes die out and the camera pans into almost total darkness. There's just a GOLDMINE of awesome horror to pull from that one little moment.
tehguitarque Yeah i also had nightmares about such things years ago. That i had to crawl trough a crazy narrow gap and then i ended up on a high balcony without a fence.
Did you happen to get a recording of the pistol without turning up the mic gain? I'm sure other audio geeks like me would love to have an impulse response of this space, so we can recreate the reverb with our own sources.
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
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
the text that appears during the gunshot is a really nice touch
My thoughts exactly
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.
"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.
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!
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
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
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
The professionalism of these guys is admirable, how one of them didn't try and squeeze a massive fart out is very respectful
suddenly sneezing in there must be quite the experience
Farting
@@pedroks7756 😂
@@denkisupremacy everybody would know
ACHOO CHOO CHOO CHOO choo choo choo o o o ooa ooaodoiodsoviozsvogsduigudygug uygc
**Daaaad?**
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
“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
As someone who's claustrophobic, this video was a master class in horror.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
"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.
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
I have major amounts of respect for someone who tells us to check out volume before they suddenly start speaking
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
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...
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?
I like how considerate Tom is, warning us to return to normal volume.
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
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.
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
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
Love how they added small facts when listening to the sound so you dont get bored
thats a perfect place for covid-19 isolation ...
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.
i wanted to hear them yelling and making weird vocal noises
BOOOB!
Ideal 'naughty corner' for a chimp that won't shut up !
AAAaAoaisuuUaa
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
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.
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 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
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.
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 :(
TITS!
Yelling BOLLOCKS, cant stop giggling, nice one.
@@cosmicjenny4508 We don't know how much shouting took place off-camera...
That was actually really freakin cool. The amount of time it took just for it to finally quite down is insane.
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
couldn't you just yelled?
goddammit i wanted to compare it to regular echo
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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
the construction started in 1938 and carried on up to round about 1938
I’m ventally disabled
You couldn't stick me through that tiny pipe. I'd die of heart failure in 2 seconds
you'll be through in one
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.
Oh, come on! You seriously didn't shout hello or something like that?
Nah, they fired a pistol
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.
“Oil still slowly seeps back out of the walls”
America: 👁👁
This got me good, nice:)
Overused
@DaBabySmokesWeedAndJimmySavilleSmokesBudWithMyNan ''your mom
o0 from Texas!
lmaoo
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
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.
Physics teacher here. This is an interesting experiment as we can find the length of the pipeline he's playing into (or least one section, which most likely has a closed end somewhere)
Using a bpm counter, I found that the song he plays has a tempo of 104bpm.
Counting the measures, we find that it takes 2bpm before the sound he plays is returned to him.
Some quick math finds that the actual time therefore is 60(seconds in a minute) / 104 (bpm) * 2 (amount of bpm for return) = about 1.15 seconds for the sound to travel from the sax to the end of the tube and back to him.
Using the speed of sound we can calculate the total distance the sound has to travel.
Sound on earth travels at around 343 meters per second. That times 1.15 seconds gets us to 395.77 meters.
As that is the distance for the sound to travel and back, half of it would be the length of the section of the tube. 395.77 / 2 = 197.89 meters deep in ur mom lmao
*video starts
*Claustrophobia intensifies*
They just leave you with your arms pinned in the little tube...
@@user84074 duudeee
0:05 imagine mr incredible tryna fit in that
Do you mean elastigirl
I guess UA-cam recommendations have brought us all back together again
Yep
see You next time friend
Hello again
This is something a horror movie character would hide in
(It's 3am)
Me: Aight, imma sleep now
UA-cam: *Wanna hear the world's longest echo?*
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.
This dude covers the most interesting topics! They're not just novel, but they're actually interesting! Huge fan here!
Imagine an angelic voice singing in there that would be so blessing
*fires a starting pistol*
“Godammit, you told me it wouldn’t be storming today!”
Please tell me someone has made an IR of this
Not yet, though it will be haired.
Was looking thru comments for a link to IR, nooooo
IR?
@@XoIoRouge Impulse Response - a way to capture multiple things like analog equipment or acoustic spaces for further use in digital audio production.
I was thinking the same thing. The audio world NEEDS this!
You didn’t say “HEY” like what the hell
Build the helicopter
@@rebeccaturner1123 AND OFF TO THE RESCUE!
I imagine that the echo and reverberation closely models what goes on in Boris Johnson's head.
Now cram all the ASMR UA-camrs there so they can have a field day.
Very impressive video Tom, didn't think I'd ever learn something like that. Loved the video, one of the best channels out there.
You have probably never heard of Kurzgesagt then. Shame really.
@@SahilP2648 i most definitely have seen that channel, but Tom is still better for me.
Agreed! Love toms content
You came from the "poping a ballon video" to the "inside a cooling tower" and now you ended up here, watching echoes videos
Yes
Yes
yes
Actually no it just happened to be in my recommended.
Bruh i-
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.
1:55 kinda sounded like the playstation 2 startup sound, I have never owned a playstation why did I hear that
Came for this
in my country people have to use ps2 because Turkish people dont take their salaries as dollar
Dude, I owned a play station and didn't notice that
@@sammykilmister Çok haklisin kral
@@walter7454 eyvallah kardesim
Anyone else think how clausterphobic it would be to go through that little duct?
I would not fit , it's made me sad . I want to go there but o can't get in........
The small space to get in gives me severe anxiety.
1:52 Me turning on my playstation 2 at 3 am.
I was expecting a "hello" 😔
Honestly, I'm just waiting for the video where you step out on to Mars and explain why we as humans can, or can't, live there...
Full instruments of orchestra playing "The Force Theme" would be great.
respect for the 'check your volume' warning to us headphone users
Or the watching at 3 am in the morning watchers when everyone else in the house is still sleeping
Imagine letting one RIP in there haha hearing the echo for over a minute.
They didn't sing halo theme...
;)
Ikr i was so hoping they would, imagine the sound
Just discovered this channel. Officially the most interesting place on UA-cam.
It is indeed :3
"This tank was professionally cleaned when the Navy decommissioned it in the 90s, but old oil still slowly seeps back out of the walls.", what a line to put as the echoes die out and the camera pans into almost total darkness. There's just a GOLDMINE of awesome horror to pull from that one little moment.
I’m really tempted to be there so I can make a fart noise that echos throughout the place
*Claustrophobia intensifies *
If someone was to fit in a Giant Gong in there my ears would be broken
...ooh, the perfect rehearsal space for a bagpipe band...!
Imagine waking up inside that place with no source of light
Welcome to another episode of where has quarantine led me today!
Yup👍😂
Stop saying this
Those tubes are straight out of my nightmares.
tehguitarque Yeah i also had nightmares about such things years ago. That i had to crawl trough a crazy narrow gap and then i ended up on a high balcony without a fence.
@@Engineer9736 Well with that last part thanks for giving my brain ideas.
Love this new reverb plugin
Did you happen to get a recording of the pistol without turning up the mic gain?
I'm sure other audio geeks like me would love to have an impulse response of this space, so we can recreate the reverb with our own sources.
That would be awesome
should have done binaural audio recording
Yes! Came here to comment this.. Tom, please!
Adding support, I'd love to use this.
impulse response plz. my convolution reverb vsts want.
if i had a chance i'll go there and whispers: "its free real estate"
its free real estattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttte
As someone who's been in there a few times, I love to see others come to historic sites in Scotland for themselves
A cathedral of oil and sound, praise be the Omnisiah