WoodChuck asks: Using one sound card for all of your blasters?

[The WoodChuck]

WoodChuck here. Many of you know I am a magician as well as a replica prop arms dealer.

Magicians use illusion all the time to enhance their seemingly impossible feats of magic.

Sound is a great item for illusions. The human mind will compensate and tell itself

the source of a sound is coming from where the eyes see the action happening.

For instance, if you are in the audience, and you see a trooper raise his blaster

and squeeze the trigger, your mind expects something to happen. Usually a bright

blue LED flashes, and perhaps some sounds are emitted from the blaster.

What if you have a pistol that is too small to fit a sound board in?

You can try this, and the eyes will see the blue LED flash, the ears will hear the sound,

and the brain will compensate and say it is coming from the blaster, when the sound

is actually coming from the utility belt:

If you mounted the sound board, buttons and speaker in a small box , say on your belt,

you could have the hand that isn't holding the pistol resting on your belt, over the box.

That hand could press each of the sound buttons as your other hand points the pistol

and squeezes the trigger. the audience would see the bright blue LED flash,

and hear the sounds as you press the buttons. It would look and sound like the sound

is coming from the pistol.

Triktoys makes a programmable sound board for $99. You could have one sound board

that could sound like four different blasters.

[P3laton3]

I am trying to convert the plugs on my "Trashtalk" http://us.codejunkies.com/Products/Trash-Talk-for-Xbox-360__EF000190.aspx

( not an happy name though ) for the same purpose

That will allows me to have both hands free, using the push to talk button inside my glove.

[Smally]

Now that's an interesting read. I suppose we always want to fit soundboards into the unit which we are wanting the sound to come from, much like how we have the radio loop playing out of our backpack radios. Food for thought.

[SNOWMAN]

This is 100% absolutely true.

Several people have told me, after seeing that my amp is in my chest, that they thought the voice was coming from my bucket. As Chuck has said, it's quite easy to trick the brain.

Good idea!

[P3laton3]

yes indeed thank you Chuck!!!