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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: ProWannabe88 on March 22, 2013, 10:04:15 PM

Title: describe that noise!!
Post by: ProWannabe88 on March 22, 2013, 10:04:15 PM
So I'm batting tonight and the new sticks feeling, well, beyond anything I expected. But the noise it was making was just something else!!  Can someone help explain it. You know that really hard ping noise, like a whip cracking. I can't think how to describe it. I think It's the first time I've ever been more impressed with the noise of a bat over everything else. Trying to explain it though is infuriating  >:(
Never got sick of hearing 'god that sounds lovely mate' when the lads were coming to collect the ball I'd just destroyed ha ha. Doesn't happen often so you have to milk it when it does.
Can anyone else describe it better?? I'm rubbish. 
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Post by: wilkie113 on March 22, 2013, 10:05:39 PM
A satisfying noise like someone annoys you and you hear there nose crack on your knuckles? haha
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Post by: The_Bird on March 22, 2013, 10:09:25 PM
A screaming cat?
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Post by: MD2812 on March 22, 2013, 10:09:38 PM
I always likened my newbery GT to the sound of a whip crack!

That or as if someone had got those childhood bangers and set 100 off at once
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Post by: ProWannabe88 on March 22, 2013, 10:13:24 PM
A satisfying noise like someone annoys you and you hear there nose crack on your knuckles? haha

You couldn't crack an egg lad so pack it in with that big mister talk
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Post by: mattw on March 22, 2013, 10:15:08 PM
For me, I had a performance grade woodworm torch that I got from eBay for £30 that sounded like that. Went like a rocket!
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Post by: Chad on March 22, 2013, 10:20:26 PM
Bulb-crunching sound? :D
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Post by: toenails97 on March 22, 2013, 10:21:47 PM
A high pitched scream ?!
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Post by: ProWannabe88 on March 22, 2013, 10:22:56 PM
It's hard to describe isn't it. It's high pitched and sharp but not so much that you think the bats not ready etc. It's just a lovely lovely BANG
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Post by: MD2812 on March 22, 2013, 10:27:37 PM
It's hard to describe isn't it. It's high pitched and sharp but not so much that you think the bats not ready etc. It's just a lovely lovely BANG

This.
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Post by: toenails97 on March 22, 2013, 10:29:18 PM
It's hard to describe isn't it. It's high pitched and sharp but not so much that you think the bats not ready etc. It's just a lovely lovely BANG
I've never really thought of how difficult it is to describe the noise :o
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Post by: The_Bird on March 22, 2013, 10:34:21 PM
Did it sound like this @ 0.46?

http://youtu.be/uUZskFKxLlQ (http://youtu.be/uUZskFKxLlQ)
Title: Re: describe that noise!!
Post by: ProWannabe88 on March 22, 2013, 10:40:34 PM
That's it. That really high pitched sound. Really crisp.

I was just searching YouTube but like the simpleton I am I searched cricket bat noise ha ha

Luke the fact its NZ smashing ENG as well.

Be more of the same when we bat on this road

Add the indoor echo and you've got what I am trying to describe mate
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Post by: ajmw89 on March 22, 2013, 10:43:15 PM
Sounds like a gunshot and your ears ring after.  You also don't feel any impact with the ball as you've hit it so sweetly. That describe it?
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Post by: ProWannabe88 on March 22, 2013, 10:51:09 PM
Yeah that's a good one. And the feel is right as well. God its a great sound haha
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Post by: Blank Bats on March 22, 2013, 10:53:42 PM
1.22 for me mate
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Post by: The_Bird on March 22, 2013, 10:58:41 PM
1.22 for me mate

That was Astles favourite as well!
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Post by: wilkie113 on March 22, 2013, 10:59:56 PM
1.22 gotta agree, sounds unreal!
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Post by: The_Bird on March 22, 2013, 11:00:21 PM
There is one of some young Aussie left hander scoring runs in an empty MCG on you tube, the noise that his bat makes is incredible.
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Post by: ProWannabe88 on March 22, 2013, 11:04:42 PM
I didn't listen to it all. God that straight six was immense. As if were all getting giddy over a noise  8)
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Post by: simonmay5 on March 24, 2013, 02:45:22 PM
It's the best sound a batsman can ever hear no way off describing truly magic :)
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Post by: LDifa on May 08, 2013, 08:42:41 AM
Wow wow wow my new custom SAF is just amazing!

It has that lovely leather on willow noise when I push and glance, but I was struggling to describe the noise it made on two middled square cuts on Monday, someone said it was like a gun shot going off, and having listened to the youtube on this thread it sounded just like the 1.22 crack.  I am still smiling now as I can hear it echoing around my head and can still see the new ball zipping off for four.

It truly is the best sound a batsman could ever hear.
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Post by: morgzy10 on May 08, 2013, 08:52:37 AM
my ricochet sounds like a cross between a whip crack and a gunshot! it makes my knees go weak every time i hear that sweet sound!
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Post by: 400notout on May 08, 2013, 09:19:01 AM
This forum needs a poet to describe it! 1.22 is absolutely class.

There's a beauty with Brett Lee hitting one out of the ground that has a fantastic noise! There's no other sound like it!
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Post by: siridurrani on May 08, 2013, 09:48:33 AM
you could literally stick it on repeat all day!!
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Post by: morgzy10 on May 08, 2013, 12:08:54 PM
Stupendous SIX, one of my favourites, great sound off the bat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmIWL3qB-Dc#)

have a listen to this bad boy
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Post by: rbblack on May 08, 2013, 12:18:23 PM
I am reminded of something akin to a bullwhip cracking when stunning willow comes leather.
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Post by: trypewriter on May 09, 2013, 08:29:48 AM
Gunshot -used to hear it when I middled something with the Newbery Excalibur - unfortunately it was rarely heard!
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Post by: vibrate on May 10, 2013, 12:41:09 PM
Nothing Sounds as good as a crisp clean shot on a nice piece of willow.
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Post by: Simmy on May 10, 2013, 12:53:28 PM
i wish i could record the noise of mine againts a new ball!
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Post by: shazz on May 10, 2013, 07:17:30 PM
Its the sound of a rifle firing at 5am in the morning over the dew laiden roses of blighty.