View new posts | View your posts Ecto Siren - I Know, I Know Hear Me Out

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After seeing GB on the big screen for the first time this October (and watching my Blu-ray copy) I think (I hope) to have discovered something about the siren that I haven't seen pointed out here before. Take a look at this pic:

(If someone could post a clearer version of this pic and/or another that shows the circular device on the dash near the beer can)

That circular device is an old siren. Sometimes they would be wound up manually by a crank. I'm not sure exactly how this particular one works but I DO know what an old siren looks like. This is it - I'm telling you!! (lol) I hope that someone else can shed some light on this particular unit. I am not saying that the sound we all know and love is directly FROM this unit, it still could have been studio-made, what I AM saying is that in the GhostBusters mythos this unit HAS to be where A siren came from.

PS: Before the stoning and beatings begin, I would like to request, please, a blindfold and a cigarette. Commence firing.

Could, no.

It was studio made. None of the items on the Ecto produced that siren.

Fair enough, but I'm also not claiming the particular sound came from the unit, just the item in "question" is a vintage siren. Something like this:

EDIT I stand corrected. Here's a shot before the restoration.

Thank you for proving that I am not crazy! It's been on my mind forEVER!! lol.

I was looking at the completed restoration photos and I noticed that either the crank was removed, or the siren was placed backward by accident, but otherwise...Yeah it does look like some random-ass siren just mounted on the dash.

The only thing I can think of is maybe for "real-world" use? If the Ecto siren was added post-production, maybe this one was used during filming/promotions/parades?? Maybe it was just for explanation purposes: "Hey, look this is where that 'whining' noise comes from"?

NOW you're over-thinking it.

Actually guys, that's not a siren, that's a Gentec Dummy Antenna, model model 525. It's used for CB Radio set ups, hence why its next to the scanner on the dash of the ecto-1.

Pic of a real one:

Damn! I thought I was on to something. I'll take my blindfold now.

Pssh, everyone learns something new, I didn't know what the hell it was either.

Thanks Jack, Matt.

There's only been one item that has not been identified on the car,and those are the pieces that sit on top of the partition box...ask me how I know.

Dumbass

Damn skippy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT4FM5EN2PE

i found this on youtube, don't know if there is allready a post off it on here. could you guys listen to it and tell me if you think it sound right? i'm not sure, but to me it doesn't sound completely like the one in the first movie. it's close, but i'm thinking not smack on it

which part

Those silver shiny pieces in between Ray and Winston's heads

That would be a horrible place to mount a hand-crank siren...on the inside of the car directly behind the windshield?? Goodbye eardrums!!!

Yes jimmy that is the correct siren sound

ok, thx. i heard 5different sirens, all stating that there's was the right one, after a while i wasn't sure anymore, lol