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Sound engineering - how to create an adequate coin drop sound?

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vorghagen:
I've found that sounds are incredibly hard to describe in words. So, really your best and only option here is to try a heap of different containers and configurations and decide which you like best.
Of course, try some of the suggestions made by everyone here but try everything else you can think of too. And I do mean EVERYTHING!!!!! Sometimes what seems like the strangest choice will become the perfect solution.
- Old paint tin.
- Tupperware.
- Wooden box.
- Metal pan.
- Motorcycle helmet.
- Novelty ashtray from that weekend roadtrip 4 years ago.
- Next door neighbour's casserole dish.
- The traffic cone you "found" the other night.
- Hell, you can even use the deformed ceramic bowl you made for your mother in third grade which doesn't sit flat and has a badly drawn picture of a 3 legged dog on the side. It's not like it needs to look good, it's inside the cabinet.

DaOld Man:
My first machine had a Williams door I got off ebay. It did not come with a coin bucket.
I used cardboard peanut cans that have metal bottoms (like Pringles chip cans, only much bigger in diameter).
These sound pretty neat when a quarter falls into them.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: patrickl on November 09, 2007, 05:16:42 am ---I thought the classics did have wood boxes. What's wrong with that sound? Otherwise use a bucket and fill it with coins. That gives you a more modern sound.

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I can't say I've ever seen a game with a wood box that wasn't obviously an improvised solution.  They've all been metal with a few plastic.

bfauska:
My Magical Spot cabinet has a wooden coin box that looks original.

I would think that once there is a layer of quarters on the bottom of any container it is going to start to sound "right"  I am sure that there are several types of bins/trays/boxes/drawers in any given arcade and the only consistent sound from all of them is the coin mech clatter and the coin/token landing on the others.

ChadTower:

Yeah, just keep a layer of coins in the box at all times - it can't hit wood if the wood is covered in coins.  This is a serious case of overengineering.

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