I always assumed that they used a recording.

@dfluff

10 жыл бұрын

***** I have listened to the mic feed direct - you can hear the traffic from the street below, but you need to not be listening at that volume on the 15 minute marks!

@qwertyTRiG

8 жыл бұрын

If you listen at midnight on New Year, you'll hear the fireworks.

@skylark.kraken

6 жыл бұрын

No, the fireworks don't start instantly

@xorbe2

5 жыл бұрын

@@qwertyTRiG because it's a recording they use once a year!

@RenaissanceEarCandy

3 жыл бұрын

I thought so too, but for some reason, I'm very pleased that it's actually live every time.

That's so awesome! I remember during the gold medal hockey game in Canada during the Vancouver Olympics, I was listening to the radio feed as I was driving along the highway. Canada won and I honked the car all the way to an electronics store. To my amazement, almost 10 minutes after I had heard Canada win, the TV feed was broadcasting the game 'live' and I saw them win again 'live'. With the number of people in the store watching the feed, since it is Canada's game, I should've made a bet with someone on who would score. lol

@matt4756

9 жыл бұрын

I live in North Vancouver

You used to be able to do this at baseball games, too. The radio station would have a mike right behind home plate. If you sat out in centerfield and listened to the game on the radio, you'd hear the crack of the bat on the broadcast before you'd hear it in person... which used to AMAZE ME as a kid. Sadly, this doesn't work any more, because most radio broadcasts are on a delay (typically 7 seconds).

A nice demonstration. I tried to measure the time difference by examining the waveforms of the left and right channels in Audacity. It's very difficult to tell, but it looks as if it's about 200 milliseconds so Vicki was probably about 70 metres away. I knew that the Radio 4 bongs were live at 6 PM - you can occasionally hear emergency vehicle sirens in the pause between the chimes and the first bong of Big Ben - but I've always wondered whether the bongs on the title sequence of ITN's News at Ten were live or a recording. I'd forgotten that the tower changed its name from St Stephen's Tower to Elizabeth Tower in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee..

@Londonistvids

8 жыл бұрын

+Mortimer50145 This is brilliant! yes, i would estimate we were about 70 meters away - well calculated! As far as we know, only the bongs at 6pm are live, all the others are recorded.

I didn't realise that the bongs in the news are a live recording.

@dunebasher1971

Жыл бұрын

They're just live, not a live recording.

She looks like a really fun person to hang out with

@Smartychase

4 жыл бұрын

@Rosida Andriyanathe how would u know..Spill the beans

Ah Vicki I really thought that this new stuff from you. Still enjoyed it though

Nice to see Vicki again!

This was a plot device in a Captain Scarlet episode, wasn't it? That if you're a certain distance away you can hear thirteen chimes at midnight.

@drsteele

9 жыл бұрын

***** Oh lummy now you mention it - yes it was.

@spoods4628

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, they used it to locate a parking lot with a bomb in it.

@passthebutterrobot2600

6 жыл бұрын

PinkThornVlogs: Yep, the episode was called "Big Ben Strikes Again". The distance was such that the radio chimes & live chimes coincided, but one chime out of sync, so Big Ben appeared to strike 13 times. Someone did the math & worked out the distance from Big Ben needed for this to be 1440m or 1574 yards. In the episode it was said to be 1500 yards, which was pretty close.

That's the tree I planted in the speakers garden, it's the bigger one!!

Everybody loves Vicki!

Well, I'll have to take your word for it.

We have a simalare radio tradition here in denmark with the big radio station.

That's really good thumbs up

It will also depend on the route the sound takes to get from Westminster to Wrotham Heath in Kent in this case, I suspect it is via a high speed ISDN line of some kind, but there will be a slight delay in the sound reaching the transmitter.

@MarkPentler

5 жыл бұрын

it's surprising how many ISDN lines are in use for broadcast purposes (guaranteed bandwidth!), but this definitely wouldn't be that.

When is Vicki going to present a new video?

Now, throw in the chimes on a DAB radio and on radio on a digital TV and we'll probably have four different timings - or more if you allow for variations in digital chipsets from different manufacturers. It's a fun world!

wow. might try this. though I won't carry a huge radio with me haha

Wow! Talk about short and sweet! Hardly gave you time to work it out. Unedited version please!

Why can't we see more Vicki videos?

@Cpr1234

6 жыл бұрын

Londonist's new video of Southwark Cathedral is talked by Vicki

@TwmUkLive

2 жыл бұрын

Viki now works at Modern railways magazine

THAT IS SO COOL!!!

westminister bridge the brige of the tragic area attack R.I.P the victims and bigben's threts

Digital TV has an even greater delay due to the time taken to encode & decode the digital signal. At New Year I can see the London Fireworks from my house - you can see them start a few seconds before the chimes of Big Ben sound from the TV speaker. Hence large parts of the UK probably start the New Year a few secons late !

@theoldar

4 жыл бұрын

It's even worse on satellite TV. People with cable TV typically see a play a few seconds before I do with DirecTV.

@cassandranoorman7154

2 жыл бұрын

It's the other way around in this video. The delay from the radio is actually LESS than the delay of the sound travelling through the air. So you hear it on the radio before you hear it in real life. Whereas you're talking about seeing things in real life before seeing them on screen, which is not impressive at all.

How about testing the theory that you can hear Big Ben strike 13. To do this you need to be at a distance from the tower so that you hear the first bong via a radio, then the second bong on the radio at the same time that the first bong arrives via the air live from the the tower. Thus when you hear the twelfth bong over the radio you are hearing the eleventh bong from the tower and finally the last twelfth bong over the air equaling a total of thirteen bongs. I think I remember seeing this in a film once but memory fails me as to which film.

@arimago

7 жыл бұрын

Can you still hear the tower itself over that distance with modern traffic?

@matthewsung3014

6 жыл бұрын

It's about 4.5 seconds between each **BONG** so you'll need to be standing about 1.53km away. The Big Ben is about 118 decibels four feet away, so at 1.53km, we're looking at about 58 decibels. City traffic is about 70-80 decibels, so tough luck hearing it if you're on the street!

@WerewolfLord

6 жыл бұрын

nivikb It's been done. kzread.info/dash/bejne/h2igyaiEibreYNI.html

@godfreypoon5148

6 жыл бұрын

After twelve bongs, I think you wouldn't know what the crap you were doing.

@TheDemocrab

Жыл бұрын

@@godfreypoon5148 That just depends on your tolerance, my friend.

That was used in an episode of Captain Scarlet!

Oh my Favourite

Like it.

BUM BAM BUM BAM BEM BOM BAM BEM BOM BOOM BEM BOMMMM!! BOOOOOOM BOOOOOOM BOOOOM BOOOOOOM

Is it possible to sing a song then travel faster than sound and then stop and listen to the song you sang?

I didn't understand the last bit; can you hear it on the radio first or not?

@riceuteneuer2678

9 жыл бұрын

Big Ben Clock Tower Yes, Vicki says "a split second"

It's sad that Big Ben is going silent

omg that's so cool!

But ever since 2017 when restoration started they used a recording but I don’t understand why they can’t record the chimes live now because Big Ben is working again so there’s no reason for them to use the microphone

Did she say “firster” ?

Do the BBC not bother with this anymore now that the bell doesn't ring

I like that

Big Ben will be silenced until 2021

infact this was used in the classic gerry anderson seires Captain scarlet.

She is dabbing

Not it doesn’t chime at all

OI M8 ITS 7 BONG

I thought it was a recording

It’s a BBC sound effect found on their Essential Sound Effects CD on iTunes. That’s the reason for the delay on the BBC Radio 4, other examples are found on Radio 4 with Brian Perkins announcing over the real chimes, where there’s no delay.

@MarkPentler

5 жыл бұрын

The only time it's been a recording is during the repairs to parliament.

If you listen on DAB radio, it will be delayed for about 10 seconds.

cool :)

Case closed!

Isn't she the one that did Harry Potter locations. If not very similar.

Are you sure that's an FM radio? It looked like a digital radio to me. It might not work so well as there is a split second encoding delay for digital broadcasts compared to analog broadcasts.

@ib9rt

10 жыл бұрын

***** Right you are. I guess it's easy to miss details like that without paying close attention to what is on the screen.

@riceuteneuer2678

9 жыл бұрын

***** Aha, so was 93.2 MHz the closest transmitter ?

@MrFixer-mg1nf

9 жыл бұрын

ib9rt It is a analog FM radio with a digital display. You are getting this mixed up with a HD radio which receives a digital singal. A lot of people get them mixed up.

@PSByte

9 жыл бұрын

ib9rt That's an FM radio. Note the antenna.

@riceuteneuer2678

9 жыл бұрын

Well, a DAB radio would have an antenna as well

Xd

I miss hearing those words "president obama"

@joermnyc

4 жыл бұрын

I’ll be happy to hear the words “FORMER President Trump” sooner rather than later... next year’s election cannot come quickly enough (sadly I do not think our spineless Senate will kick him out).