@@DeezBMemes Uhm it has nothing to do with YT compression when it's audio but compression exists to 128kbps and it already sounds lossless and good. The only compression is the video itself. And don't forget to rely on this guy's phone microphone? Or a camera that captures the sound with 2 mic stereo. The fire alarm on this video is just a speaker instead of using the mechanism of generating tone to make an alarm sound, overall the fire alarm is so goofy when it's replaced to speaker ahh fire alarm design💀
The fact that these Fire Alarms whose whole purpose is to warn people about a fire are capable of so much more is amazing!!! I didn't know they could do this!
A lot of Walmart stores have a system like this, except the speaker strobes look more like regular PA speakers with strobes slapped on the front. They play music and broadcast intercom announcements in standby mode, and immediately switch to a voice evac message during a fire (the strobes also start flashing when this happens of course). Speaker strobes are THE fire alarm, imo!
hahahhahahah i was like was like why the eff, then i clicked the timestamp then i came back and saw your name lol, but hey we all had to start some where when we start our passions whether it is in a classical band in 6th grade or starting out on yt :)
"Attention, attention, attention. An rickroll situation has been detected in this building. Proceed to the nearest exit and leave the building. Do not re-enter the building until directed to by Rick Astley." **Never gonna give you up starts playing**
That unit mounted on the ceiling sounded unbelievably clear, even though the RUclips video. I had no idea fire alarms had such high quality speakers in them! Thanks for uploading this video too! This is something I've wondered about since I was a kid.
As he mentioned in the video, the audio quality has a _lot_ to do with what kind of enclosure the speaker is mounted in. An open-back speaker (like the white one mounted on the test board) has no enclosure to resonate bass frequencies, so it’ll sound tinny and cheap. On the other hand, the speakers mounted on junction boxes (and the one in the ceiling itself) have an entire enclosure behind the speaker that can resonate and enhance the bass and midrange frequencies, which is why they sound so much better. It’s the same reason that real speakers are mounted in a speaker cabinet - the cabinet greatly enhances the audio quality and fullness. In the case of the ceiling-mounted alarm, the entire ceiling is essentially its speaker cabinet, so it sounds the best.
I love stumbling into the niche parts of RUclips! Dude has a dozen fire alarms wired into his home, all the equipment to run them properly, like 50 different wicked fire extenguishers and who knows what else! Hell yeah man, this is what RUclips was made for 😁
> Building on fire > All you can hear is sick music That would honestly be funny if someone rigged their system to blast some song whilst it's going off, highly illegal though I bet.
The one in the suspended ceiling actually sounds REAL nice. I mean just for being a fire alarm speaker, actually decent bass response for what it is. Could you play music with specific frequencies, like 60hz, 70hz, 80hz, 50hz, ect. I still can't get over how good the suspended ceiling one sounds
My interpretation of the music played: First Song: "hello guys, in today's video we are going to be escaping from a fire" 2:09 Second Song: memes 3:33 Third Song: WE GETTIN 2016 NOSTALGIA WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥4:40 Fourth Song: gamer intro 5:43 Fifth "Song": fire alarm vlog 6:56 Sixth Song: classical music 7:20
I genuinely prefer when people leave their old videos up because it shows the progress and how far you've come. Some RUclipsrs themselves have even said it makes someone more genuine to Their audience especially respectful to those who have been watching for a long time and want to revisit the old videos
I will be the first one to say my old videos are cringe. I only leave them public so others and myself can look back and see how much has changed over the years!
6:30, "I can also make announcements" My first thought was "I have come to make an announcement..." On a more serious note, this could also be used for testing purposes, by playing quiet safe music and walking around and checking if each speaker is working correctly
Your home meets the minimum number of fire extinguishers required. Ya, those alarm heads sounded great! Years ago I was given some old noise masking pendent speakers that hung above a drop ceiling in a store. All they did was play a shhhhhh noise (aka white noise). The speakers were inside of some cylinder thingie. I played music through a few and it sounded really strange. Hollow, resonations all over the place! Strictly midrange.
I'm over in the UK, and from what you describe, at a guess (and assuming you mean sphere/ball rather than cylinder) they might have been Penton GB20Ts. over here, you come across them every now and then in some shops, often actually used for music. The older ones sound muffled but the newer ones are clearer, so maybe they made some improvement to them over the years.
When I was younger, I had a dream where instead of fire drills; there were music drills, the fire alarms had the word “music” on them with music notes instead of the word “fire”, of course music came out of them instead of the loud and annoying alarm sound, and you were supposed to dance when they went off. This video is the closest I’ve seen this dream to being reality. Also, how did RUclips know?
4:29 To this day, when people mention using RUclips as a kid, it still blows my mind because I'm only in my 30s and don't feel that old... until I hear comments like this.
These are very unique fire alarms because with speaker strobes, you can use it for of course fire alarm purposes, or you can code it to do a shelter in place or lockdown message with an addressable panel like my middle school has. Or, you can play music. Endless possibilities basically.
I've always found modding things to be so interesting. The fact that you can take anything electronic and make it do stuff it's not intended to do is so cool imo.
Can confirm on the fire alarm systems being used as P.A. systems. Near where I live, theres a Walmart with Wheelock speaker strobes that play music 24/7. And are also used for the stores P.A.
In response to this video. Fire alarm speaker/strobes and voice evac systems are typically required in large buildings. Theaters, sports stadiums, casinos, things like that. One thing I do see very frequently is voice evac systems installed in schools. Fire takes priority. But if an intruder is in the building, the principal can push a button and a different tone will broadcast over the speaker/strobes and play an automated message, informing students and teachers to the situation. In hospitals, they play the code 3 chime tone with a message telling doctors instructions during an emergency. In colleges and universities, I see voice evac systems constantly. They use it to tranmit tones and messages other than fire. Tornado warnings, intruder, fire, natural gas leaks, carbon monoxide, accidents, you name it. You can do that with voice evac systems. You can't do that with conventional horn/strobe systems. Because conventional horn/strobe systems can only transmit fire emergencies, they can only beep very loudly, conventional horn/strobe systems are not really allowed in a whole lot of applications anymore. Conventional horn/strobes are still allowed in buildings, but only if they are installed in specific applications. More often than not, conventional horn/strobes are installed in addition to voice evac systems. They have components that can code the tone in sync with the horn/strobes, I don’t know how. They even have components to silence the horn/strobes for the messages, again, I don't know how. I just know that they exist. They even use horn/strobes in private apartments for local smoke alarms and speaker/strobes for general alarm evacuation. In private apartments, they use horn/strobes, Wheelock NS for example, and speaker/strobes, Wheelock ET80, E-70, or something similar in the rest of the buildings. They really only allow conventional horn/strobe only systems in very small businesses like restaurants and daycare centers, and in older school buildings from the 80s and 90s. But even still, many older schools from that era with horn/strobes only are being retrofitted with speakers and voice evac systems being retrofitted. Voice evac system being used as a paging system is something that I do every time I'm running a horn/strobe test in a building that has a voice evac system in it when I am on a job working on the fire alarms. The microphone is almost always in the panel. May I have your attention please! May I have your attention please! We are now working on the fire alarm system! Again, this is only a test! Please disregard all signals you may see or hear until further notice! Thank you for your cooperation! Yes, right over the fire alarm system through the speaker/strobes. I do that every time there is a voice evac system on the fire alarm system that I am working on when on a job involving life safety equipment. Using the voice evac system as a P.A system.
@@Handy-lw9jpmy high school did not have one, just horn/strobes. My elementary school didn't have one either, 7002T's and 7001T's. My middle school for 6 and 7 grade didn't have a voice evac either, Edwards 895B's everywhere. I doubt those systems are still there though. When my parents split, I was moved to a very small middle school for 8 grade and that school not only didn't have a voice evac system, that middle school didn't even have a fire alarm system. I don't know how that school was able to operate that way. It only had a few smoke detectors tied into the burglary alarm system. I don't know how that would have been legal. However, my college had a voice evac system. Simplex 4100U system with the iconic air raid siren tone that Simplex is known for, especially on the 4100 systems. Simplex 4906 speaker/strobes everywhere. My best guess is that perhaps voice evac systems in public schools is a new thing. My dearest friend's mother works at an elementary school and her elementary school has voice evac with System Sensor speaker/strobes. However, her school is newly renovated. Our fire codes change continuously. My local library has a hybrid horn/strobe and voice evac system with horn/strobes Wheelock HS4, with System Sensor remote speakers on the ceiling. The horn/strobes sound in code 3 and the panel silences them and the voice come on. May I have your attention please! May I have your attention please! There has been a fire alarm reported in the building! There has been a fire alarm reported in the building! Please proceed to the stairways and exit the building! Do not use the elevators but proceed to the stairways and exit the building! The horn/strobes then sound in code 3 again. No tone on the speakers, that is what the horn/strobes are for. Very weird system indeed but whatever floats their boat. I was there with my adoptive sister (I was adopted) when they were testing it. I have seen systems where the voice evac tone is done with a separate tone card that is coded to code 3 by the panel. I have tested those and the tones on the remote tone cards are yuck tones. Ear shredding awful shriek that I promise you won't ever forget. Some even have tones that sound like the emergency alert tone on our phones but in code 3. Everyone hates it, of course we all know why.
Interesting! My school is the opposite. The PA system is actually notification for fire alarm. It is completely up to code due to it being wired in FP. Really cool video! NCS was definitely hot during the 2010s
A note when you were mentioning the audio quality: With lot of speakers, any speakers of any kind, the quality depends less on the speaker cone itself and a lot more on the box the speaker cone is mounted to, specifically the acoustics/resonance of that box. The thing i noticed about when you were pointing out the one that sounded best to you, it is also mounted to a larger electronics panel behind it i would assume, while the rest are mounted to a box roughly the size of the back of the alarm itself, so the one on the ceiling definitely has much better resonance and acoustics. and a side note to this side note we're already on: For those of you reading this comment thinking "Well wait a moment, my phone sounds alright, and it has NO open space inside, so now what?" Phones cheat. if you were to open up the speaker inside your phone, you will find a small little well of a bunch of little beads taped into a space just over the speaker. These beads do a bunch of acoustic magic to specifically control and create echos inside the speaker, making the speaker sound like it is much larger and more resonant than it actually is.
I saw the video of installing these. The newer white ones essentially use sealed back midrange drivers, and it doesn’t matter what box they go in they will always sound bad for music. The older red ones use open back full range drivers more similar in design to probably an old iPod dock. Those type of speakers definitely change depending on what’s behind them.
try baby einstein music. song: non piu andrai (from the marriage of figaro) artist: the baby einstein music box orchestra, jonathan bloch album name: classical songs for babies
Voice evacuation systems can double as a background music system and a general PA not just fire alarm system. So if you have a voice evac system, you definitely don't need a separate 70v distributed audio system unless you're doing foreground music or need high fidelity sound for your background music which is pretty cool.
Interesting how a lot of modern music didn’t sound amazing on these speakers, but the old classical piece actually sounded pretty good. (Well, good for something that’s main use is to broadcast building evacuation messages.) Honestly these, especially the one on the red back box, sound very close to my grandparents’ old somewhat basic stereo speakers from the 60s that I now own. (They’re the middle two with the fabric grills on in my profile picture.) And that’s saying a lot because those are 8 inch cone speakers in a tuned/“vented” box probably over a cubic foot in size. They were never built for low bass or airy treble and don’t hold up well to modern music with synthesizers, but I will tell you they take absolutely ZERO power to get loud. That one mounted in the ceiling reminds me of the sound I got when I removed the front panel off one of those old speakers and leaned it against my bed frame on the ground, essentially using under my bed as a speaker box. That bass was insane!
My favorite RUclips Audio Library bangers: Emotional Mess - Amy Lynn & the Honey Men Scarlet Fire - Otis Mcdonald Walk Through the Park - TrackTribe I use these songs to test audio equipment.
So are we ignoring the 3 million fire extinguishers on the ground...? LMAO keep it up man, this is the first video of yours that I'm seeing but it's fireee
That sounds like a unique and entertaining concept! Playing music through fire alarm speakers could create a fun, albeit unconventional, experience, but it’s important to consider safety regulations and the potential for causing confusion in emergencies. If you have more details about the video or its reception, I’d love to hear about it!
@@FireAlarmDude5967 Ha ha you make it sound like playing music at night is a bad thing but I like music at any time of the day. Cool video though, never encountered someone who had fire alarms as a hobby and who is this passionate about it. Stamp collecting is so outdated. :D :D
This is cool! I didn't know that some fire alarm speaker strobes can do this. I would invite my friends over for a dance party at my house if I had this feature with fire alarms.
Using fire alarms as a PA is actually a genius life hack. You see, you are constantly testing your apparatus and will quite quickly find any alarms that are not functioning.
honestly, ive thrown away a couple of those model speaker strobes before. now that i know they actually sound decent, i might take a couple of them home with me. it does make sense for this kind of frequency range to be used for a speaker strobe though. announcements need to be loud and clear and the alarm sound needs to push through a lot of different environments and be heard and/or felt by everyone in the building.
Imagine dying in a fire or whatever and all you hear is classic Kevin Macleod tunes coming out of the fire alarms lol
I think I'd rather that than the ear piercing alarm.
Even better, Rick Roll starts playing
@@Because_I_Felt_Like_It Gonna give you up
TO FLAMES!!!
*monkey spinning moneys plays*
When the building’s burning down and then it decides to start playing an ad
All the sick songs in the free music library, and you started with the one PTSD triggering song lol
what’s the ptsd from?
yes real
That was what I was thinking!
At least it wasn't that damn, stupid "Oh no, oh no, oh no" garbage.
@@tallreversd that whistle song is the song used by sooooooo many stupid RUclips videos. All it needs is some shitty AI voiceover lol
Surprisingly good speakers for a fire alarm
I'm amazed by that quality, even if it's coming through a lot of processes like yt's compression thing and lot more.... it's superb, tho
Uhh they need it to be clear enough for you to hear
@@DeezBMemes Uhm it has nothing to do with YT compression when it's audio but compression exists to 128kbps and it already sounds lossless and good. The only compression is the video itself. And don't forget to rely on this guy's phone microphone? Or a camera that captures the sound with 2 mic stereo. The fire alarm on this video is just a speaker instead of using the mechanism of generating tone to make an alarm sound, overall the fire alarm is so goofy when it's replaced to speaker ahh fire alarm design💀
@RainbowTraps yes it's going through his mic and everything
sounds distorted to me. But yeah surprisingly loud
I absolutely love the fact that there are people THIS enthusiastic about something as unassuming as fire alarms
Right? It feels like a secret little party only we know about. :)
@@davidonguitar Sirens/early warning signals give the same vibes.
y'all should see the warning siren community
Dang. For a speaker designed to sound a fire alarm sound these sound pretty good with music.
They are essentially just a PA system that is dedicated to the purpose of fire alarm. The speakers are maybe 3" so you won't get great low end.
Something about the first song you chose playing through a fire alarm is absurdly funny to me for some reason
I only watched to see the song choice. I was hoping for hot in here by nelly or The roof is on fire😂
It's probably because it's such a fun and jolly song being played on a device made to tell you that your house is on fire
The fact that these Fire Alarms whose whole purpose is to warn people about a fire are capable of so much more is amazing!!! I didn't know they could do this!
Definitely a missed opportunity for some establishments.
A lot of Walmart stores have a system like this, except the speaker strobes look more like regular PA speakers with strobes slapped on the front. They play music and broadcast intercom announcements in standby mode, and immediately switch to a voice evac message during a fire (the strobes also start flashing when this happens of course). Speaker strobes are THE fire alarm, imo!
My Walmart near me had music playing through it. Was so interesting to me
@@MrPacMan36Yeah same, a Walmart kinda far from my house has those PA speakers with the fire strobe on it and it played music FROM THE ALARM!
Only the 2014 and up i think, the 1990s and 2000-2010 stores have tbe old old annying loud asf fire alarm beep thing
Yep, those are the Wheelock ceiling mount speaker strobes.
You know, “Scarlet Fire” won’t get you a copyright strike. Dankpods might send Australian ninjas after you though.
Lol
Haha I thought about Wade talking over copyrighted music to avoid strikes but forgot about Scarlett Fire
Fellow dankpods fan spotted :0
hes gonna put these alarms on the amp that destroys cheap earbuds 😭
@im_munted the Maraca Cracker 9000! 😂
I enjoyed this video until 6:56
hahahhahahah i was like was like why the eff, then i clicked the timestamp then i came back and saw your name lol, but hey we all had to start some where when we start our passions whether it is in a classical band in 6th grade or starting out on yt :)
@@TheDigi321 stop talking about passions, its a sign. you are talking to a sign bro, what is wrong with you?
copyright him lol
ShopRite can can song 😂
IYKYK
@@NEILSMITH-n4vwho hurt you bro it's a joke
Rick roll the entire building with this. "Attention. Attention. An emergency has been reported in the building" Never Gonna Give You Up plays
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.
"Attention, attention, attention. An rickroll situation has been detected in this building. Proceed to the nearest exit and leave the building. Do not re-enter the building until directed to by Rick Astley." **Never gonna give you up starts playing**
How the fook did you add that search thing.
@@FanFanFan777I think it's an automated thing that Google added so that people can easily search for something mentioned
@@FanFanFan777 wym
That unit mounted on the ceiling sounded unbelievably clear, even though the RUclips video. I had no idea fire alarms had such high quality speakers in them! Thanks for uploading this video too! This is something I've wondered about since I was a kid.
As he mentioned in the video, the audio quality has a _lot_ to do with what kind of enclosure the speaker is mounted in. An open-back speaker (like the white one mounted on the test board) has no enclosure to resonate bass frequencies, so it’ll sound tinny and cheap. On the other hand, the speakers mounted on junction boxes (and the one in the ceiling itself) have an entire enclosure behind the speaker that can resonate and enhance the bass and midrange frequencies, which is why they sound so much better. It’s the same reason that real speakers are mounted in a speaker cabinet - the cabinet greatly enhances the audio quality and fullness. In the case of the ceiling-mounted alarm, the entire ceiling is essentially its speaker cabinet, so it sounds the best.
Imagine there was a fire and the next thing you hear is free RUclips audio 😭
Or what about some sick EDM interlaced with "AUDIO JUNGLE" for that old RUclips feel
You: chillin in your basement.
*editing music plays*
You: PARTY TIME
I love stumbling into the niche parts of RUclips! Dude has a dozen fire alarms wired into his home, all the equipment to run them properly, like 50 different wicked fire extenguishers and who knows what else! Hell yeah man, this is what RUclips was made for 😁
> Building on fire
> All you can hear is sick music
That would honestly be funny if someone rigged their system to blast some song whilst it's going off, highly illegal though I bet.
🔥It's gettin hot in here 🎶
Sweet brown aint nobody got time for that
subnautica's "abandon ship" song
Light ‘em Up by fallout boy. 😂
Shotty on the dance floor would get y’all out if it said THIS IS REAL
The one in the suspended ceiling actually sounds REAL nice. I mean just for being a fire alarm speaker, actually decent bass response for what it is. Could you play music with specific frequencies, like 60hz, 70hz, 80hz, 50hz, ect. I still can't get over how good the suspended ceiling one sounds
I saw these being used as an outdoor intercom and music system at a Walmart outdoor center. Pretty cool!
My interpretation of the music played:
First Song: "hello guys, in today's video we are going to be escaping from a fire" 2:09
Second Song: memes 3:33
Third Song: WE GETTIN 2016 NOSTALGIA WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥4:40
Fourth Song: gamer intro 5:43
Fifth "Song": fire alarm vlog 6:56
Sixth Song: classical music 7:20
6:50 never been more relieved I took down some of my first ones…
Ejjj nic
I genuinely prefer when people leave their old videos up because it shows the progress and how far you've come. Some RUclipsrs themselves have even said it makes someone more genuine to Their audience especially respectful to those who have been watching for a long time and want to revisit the old videos
@@Junden-w1u Yes! Exactly! This is why we keep pretty much all our old videos up.
I will be the first one to say my old videos are cringe. I only leave them public so others and myself can look back and see how much has changed over the years!
@@ExitSign250 all of ours were man.
6:30, "I can also make announcements"
My first thought was "I have come to make an announcement..."
On a more serious note, this could also be used for testing purposes, by playing quiet safe music and walking around and checking if each speaker is working correctly
For Fire alarms, These sound pretty damn good
Your home meets the minimum number of fire extinguishers required. Ya, those alarm heads sounded great! Years ago I was given some old noise masking pendent speakers that hung above a drop ceiling in a store. All they did was play a shhhhhh noise (aka white noise). The speakers were inside of some cylinder thingie. I played music through a few and it sounded really strange. Hollow, resonations all over the place! Strictly midrange.
I'm over in the UK, and from what you describe, at a guess (and assuming you mean sphere/ball rather than cylinder) they might have been Penton GB20Ts. over here, you come across them every now and then in some shops, often actually used for music. The older ones sound muffled but the newer ones are clearer, so maybe they made some improvement to them over the years.
5:50 brings be straight back to my junior/senior year of high school. 2015/16 was such a good time
Those were the days (I was literally in like third grade)
Ronnocbot!!! I remember watching your fire alarm videos
@ Glad you have fond memories of me!
Literally when I got into fire alarms
@@FireAlarmDude5967why is that song so common in the fire alarm community? Its the classic song of this community lol.
I would play "Attention, there may be a fire in the building" and then "AHH AHH AHH AHH Stayin alive, Stayin alive" in a loop
I’d have Disco Inferno blasting through those bad boys just for the heck of it. 🤣
When I was younger, I had a dream where instead of fire drills; there were music drills, the fire alarms had the word “music” on them with music notes instead of the word “fire”, of course music came out of them instead of the loud and annoying alarm sound, and you were supposed to dance when they went off. This video is the closest I’ve seen this dream to being reality. Also, how did RUclips know?
That would’ve been better
All you need now is to activate the stobes! Dance Party!
it would be interesting if they were mass notification strobes too, with the different colors.
Imagine if fire alarms had to play royalty free music in an emergency. 🤣
4:29 To this day, when people mention using RUclips as a kid, it still blows my mind because I'm only in my 30s and don't feel that old... until I hear comments like this.
that music at the end would've been hilarious during a fire alarm, just *oh no run run run run we gotta get out we gotta get out" 😂
These are very unique fire alarms because with speaker strobes, you can use it for of course fire alarm purposes, or you can code it to do a shelter in place or lockdown message with an addressable panel like my middle school has. Or, you can play music. Endless possibilities basically.
I've always found modding things to be so interesting. The fact that you can take anything electronic and make it do stuff it's not intended to do is so cool imo.
Didn't know much about fire alarms before this video, I have learnt a lot more now. Great video man!
Can confirm on the fire alarm systems being used as P.A. systems. Near where I live, theres a Walmart with Wheelock speaker strobes that play music 24/7. And are also used for the stores P.A.
Those fire alarms look really sus
My goodness
Very nice when music written 200+ years ago isn't under copy right because so much of it is beautiful!! 🥰
I don’t think anyone said this yet: Imagine if Through the Fire and the Flames began playing only in the solo during an evacuation.
🤣🤣🤣
🔥🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸
Love how this guy is genuinely geekin' out!
2:21 imagine a building is on fire, and the fire alarm is playing this banger while you are exiting the building.
In response to this video. Fire alarm speaker/strobes and voice evac systems are typically required in large buildings. Theaters, sports stadiums, casinos, things like that. One thing I do see very frequently is voice evac systems installed in schools. Fire takes priority. But if an intruder is in the building, the principal can push a button and a different tone will broadcast over the speaker/strobes and play an automated message, informing students and teachers to the situation. In hospitals, they play the code 3 chime tone with a message telling doctors instructions during an emergency. In colleges and universities, I see voice evac systems constantly. They use it to tranmit tones and messages other than fire. Tornado warnings, intruder, fire, natural gas leaks, carbon monoxide, accidents, you name it. You can do that with voice evac systems. You can't do that with conventional horn/strobe systems. Because conventional horn/strobe systems can only transmit fire emergencies, they can only beep very loudly, conventional horn/strobe systems are not really allowed in a whole lot of applications anymore. Conventional horn/strobes are still allowed in buildings, but only if they are installed in specific applications. More often than not, conventional horn/strobes are installed in addition to voice evac systems. They have components that can code the tone in sync with the horn/strobes, I don’t know how. They even have components to silence the horn/strobes for the messages, again, I don't know how. I just know that they exist. They even use horn/strobes in private apartments for local smoke alarms and speaker/strobes for general alarm evacuation. In private apartments, they use horn/strobes, Wheelock NS for example, and speaker/strobes, Wheelock ET80, E-70, or something similar in the rest of the buildings. They really only allow conventional horn/strobe only systems in very small businesses like restaurants and daycare centers, and in older school buildings from the 80s and 90s. But even still, many older schools from that era with horn/strobes only are being retrofitted with speakers and voice evac systems being retrofitted. Voice evac system being used as a paging system is something that I do every time I'm running a horn/strobe test in a building that has a voice evac system in it when I am on a job working on the fire alarms. The microphone is almost always in the panel. May I have your attention please! May I have your attention please! We are now working on the fire alarm system! Again, this is only a test! Please disregard all signals you may see or hear until further notice! Thank you for your cooperation! Yes, right over the fire alarm system through the speaker/strobes. I do that every time there is a voice evac system on the fire alarm system that I am working on when on a job involving life safety equipment. Using the voice evac system as a P.A system.
Well my school does and it says a fire was reported in the building 😅
🤓☝️
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@@Handy-lw9jpmy high school did not have one, just horn/strobes. My elementary school didn't have one either, 7002T's and 7001T's. My middle school for 6 and 7 grade didn't have a voice evac either, Edwards 895B's everywhere. I doubt those systems are still there though. When my parents split, I was moved to a very small middle school for 8 grade and that school not only didn't have a voice evac system, that middle school didn't even have a fire alarm system. I don't know how that school was able to operate that way. It only had a few smoke detectors tied into the burglary alarm system. I don't know how that would have been legal. However, my college had a voice evac system. Simplex 4100U system with the iconic air raid siren tone that Simplex is known for, especially on the 4100 systems. Simplex 4906 speaker/strobes everywhere. My best guess is that perhaps voice evac systems in public schools is a new thing. My dearest friend's mother works at an elementary school and her elementary school has voice evac with System Sensor speaker/strobes. However, her school is newly renovated. Our fire codes change continuously. My local library has a hybrid horn/strobe and voice evac system with horn/strobes Wheelock HS4, with System Sensor remote speakers on the ceiling. The horn/strobes sound in code 3 and the panel silences them and the voice come on. May I have your attention please! May I have your attention please! There has been a fire alarm reported in the building! There has been a fire alarm reported in the building! Please proceed to the stairways and exit the building! Do not use the elevators but proceed to the stairways and exit the building! The horn/strobes then sound in code 3 again. No tone on the speakers, that is what the horn/strobes are for. Very weird system indeed but whatever floats their boat. I was there with my adoptive sister (I was adopted) when they were testing it. I have seen systems where the voice evac tone is done with a separate tone card that is coded to code 3 by the panel. I have tested those and the tones on the remote tone cards are yuck tones. Ear shredding awful shriek that I promise you won't ever forget. Some even have tones that sound like the emergency alert tone on our phones but in code 3. Everyone hates it, of course we all know why.
I ain't reading that
One reason I love my Wheelock SAFEPATH is being able to play music while it's in standby mode. I definitely should play those bangers on it one day!
I ve heard that Walmart have them a lot of places. Too bad my Walmart has Wheelock AS's and commander 4's
7:35 all your pain as a fire alarm enthusiast
lol
Imagine being in school and suddenly there’s a fire drill and all you hear is music
Wow, some of those speakers sound amazing.
Finally we got Dolby Atmos at home with those fire alarms lol
4:40 takes me right back to elementary school!
Oh hi Nic, Why not do this for your own system and make a video on it? This is fire, get it
"how to build a minecraft mob farm" ahh song
Interesting! My school is the opposite. The PA system is actually notification for fire alarm. It is completely up to code due to it being wired in FP. Really cool video! NCS was definitely hot during the 2010s
That's awesome! Love that they can do so many things. A musical fire alarm.
2:43: I was thinking that speaker had pretty good bass response. Could you have the strobes going off while playing music? :o
That would violate the law so no
A note when you were mentioning the audio quality: With lot of speakers, any speakers of any kind, the quality depends less on the speaker cone itself and a lot more on the box the speaker cone is mounted to, specifically the acoustics/resonance of that box. The thing i noticed about when you were pointing out the one that sounded best to you, it is also mounted to a larger electronics panel behind it i would assume, while the rest are mounted to a box roughly the size of the back of the alarm itself, so the one on the ceiling definitely has much better resonance and acoustics.
and a side note to this side note we're already on: For those of you reading this comment thinking "Well wait a moment, my phone sounds alright, and it has NO open space inside, so now what?" Phones cheat. if you were to open up the speaker inside your phone, you will find a small little well of a bunch of little beads taped into a space just over the speaker. These beads do a bunch of acoustic magic to specifically control and create echos inside the speaker, making the speaker sound like it is much larger and more resonant than it actually is.
I saw the video of installing these. The newer white ones essentially use sealed back midrange drivers, and it doesn’t matter what box they go in they will always sound bad for music. The older red ones use open back full range drivers more similar in design to probably an old iPod dock. Those type of speakers definitely change depending on what’s behind them.
08:25 And for more fun, play study music through the speaker strobes! This is a thing schools should do when they have voice evac systems
try baby einstein music.
song: non piu andrai (from the marriage of figaro)
artist: the baby einstein music box orchestra, jonathan bloch
album name: classical songs for babies
These alarms have no business sounding that good 😂😂
Voice evacuation systems can double as a background music system and a general PA not just fire alarm system. So if you have a voice evac system, you definitely don't need a separate 70v distributed audio system unless you're doing foreground music or need high fidelity sound for your background music which is pretty cool.
Puts a really new definition on these beats are 🔥🔥🔥 🤣🤣🤣
Person: "wow, nice place, what's the sound system?"
Me: - plays music on the fire alarm-
Interesting how a lot of modern music didn’t sound amazing on these speakers, but the old classical piece actually sounded pretty good. (Well, good for something that’s main use is to broadcast building evacuation messages.) Honestly these, especially the one on the red back box, sound very close to my grandparents’ old somewhat basic stereo speakers from the 60s that I now own. (They’re the middle two with the fabric grills on in my profile picture.) And that’s saying a lot because those are 8 inch cone speakers in a tuned/“vented” box probably over a cubic foot in size. They were never built for low bass or airy treble and don’t hold up well to modern music with synthesizers, but I will tell you they take absolutely ZERO power to get loud.
That one mounted in the ceiling reminds me of the sound I got when I removed the front panel off one of those old speakers and leaned it against my bed frame on the ground, essentially using under my bed as a speaker box. That bass was insane!
5:10 Back to 2016😢
My favorite RUclips Audio Library bangers:
Emotional Mess - Amy Lynn & the Honey Men
Scarlet Fire - Otis Mcdonald
Walk Through the Park - TrackTribe
I use these songs to test audio equipment.
That's cool just like when i went to walmart in Forest Lake or Andover MN they played music so well!
I think pretty much every Walmart with speaker strobes play music on their fire alarms
@@idkanymore9590 I think they do
Imagine your dying and the thick of it starts playing
Oh my
So are we ignoring the 3 million fire extinguishers on the ground...? LMAO keep it up man, this is the first video of yours that I'm seeing but it's fireee
I do not know what bro is talking about these songs are bangers
4:40 "top 5 coolest controlled demolitions" ahh music ngl
Truly the best things I've ever heard come from fire alarms
“I hope they play fein”
Honestly what criteria does something have to meet for it to have that search icon next to it.
First out of nowhere video, I've seen in a while, reminds me of the old days of youtube
5:59 pure nostalgia
4:37 music name: on & on (it’s a banger bro listen to it)
4:40 top 10 biggest waterslides
the quality on these are insane, i should legit buy some for my music, and it would prolly be cheaper too.
6:22 I still listen to the songs today lol
Same
Performing an A72 would be so awesome. No “do we need to leave?” instead “is it a dance off, bro?”
1:57 never gonna give you up
Can Can is the pinnacle of funny music through fire alarm systems
01:33 Oooo. I can feeeeel the tism emanating from the alarm system.
That’s a weird thing to say
@@FireAlarmDude5967 Na. It's on par.
imagine someone rick rolling you via a fire alarm
at 7:20 in the video, Imagine hearing that as a fire breaks out.
That sounds like a unique and entertaining concept! Playing music through fire alarm speakers could create a fun, albeit unconventional, experience, but it’s important to consider safety regulations and the potential for causing confusion in emergencies. If you have more details about the video or its reception, I’d love to hear about it!
03:57 Is there some significance to the fact it is dark outside?
When it’s dark it’s probably night time
@@FireAlarmDude5967 Ha ha you make it sound like playing music at night is a bad thing but I like music at any time of the day. Cool video though, never encountered someone who had fire alarms as a hobby and who is this passionate about it. Stamp collecting is so outdated. :D :D
@@starman617 thanks!
Because when it's dark outside, it's probably night, and y'know people sleep at night
4:47 when ur in hockey madness and the puck is about to drop and you hear this:
bro 5:27
LEGIT nostalgic for me as fuckkk
I can then imagine EAS Alerts throughout the school, Malls, Etc. being broadcasted. It would be definitely funny, yet terrifying.
3:50 you're gonna kill those things like that 😂 all clipping 😂
This is cool! I didn't know that some fire alarm speaker strobes can do this. I would invite my friends over for a dance party at my house if I had this feature with fire alarms.
Using fire alarms as a PA is actually a genius life hack. You see, you are constantly testing your apparatus and will quite quickly find any alarms that are not functioning.
The jazz in Paris song is actually perfect for the alarm sound, extra points if you can get the strobe to sync with the beat.
Bro: can we have some music on? Me: ok *Blasts music at full volume thru my FIRE ALARM*
Imagine playing pandemonium screaming sound effect out of a fire alarm
Not gonna lie you did got me with this banger 6:00 I hear this song a lot in youtube background music
Man it would have been cool to play Through the Fire and Flames through the fire alarms.
The ones through 5:31
"Sir get out!"
"Hold on! I wnna sing along to this drop!"
Imagine pulling a fire alarm and immediately getting Rick Rolled 🤣
Now THAT I would pay for!
honestly, ive thrown away a couple of those model speaker strobes before. now that i know they actually sound decent, i might take a couple of them home with me. it does make sense for this kind of frequency range to be used for a speaker strobe though. announcements need to be loud and clear and the alarm sound needs to push through a lot of different environments and be heard and/or felt by everyone in the building.
Bro imagine there’s a fire and somebody pulls the fire alarm and then this music just starts playing as the priority
Imagine if the voice evacuation message was jazz disco while the strobes are having a party
this man is prepared for any fire in his home
Imagine schools having elevator music for their fire alarms and everyone just dances lol
that one sitting flat on the ceiling has some bass!!
Imagine the fire alarm going off and it suddenly plays rock music lol
When he played that music through it i couldn’t help but laugh
that white fire alarm on 6:07 sounded like a cheap 2010 telephone speaker :)