Tesla coil audio

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Original poster: Esondrmn@xxxxxxx 

A few months ago, an engineer from Microsoft came over to my house to 
record audio from my Tesla coils for use in future X box games.  He sent me 
a note last week that the first use of some of that audio appears in the 
new game Mechassault 2.

His comments: "There are a large number of electrical visual effects in the 
game, and many of them have sound effects.  For performance reasons, the 
sound effects are highly randomized so most things are silent some of the 
time so it's hard to say exactly where you can hear them, except to play 
the game for a while and keep eye/ear out for electrical arcs and the 
like.  Most of these electrical sound effects have at least an element of 
the sounds I recorded at your place.  I used a great deal of processing and 
layering to make the sounds even more unusual, so you might not recognize 
them at first.  The Jacob's ladder got a lot of use, as did the big 
coil.  The basement coil didn't get used much, but it's in there a little bit."

He can't pay for this stuff but he did send me some software and is going 
to send a copy of the new game.  Maybe my kids will let me use their X box 
to try it out.

Ed Sonderman