Vehicle horn Several languages have either borrowed or transcribed the name into their lexicons. In Japanese, the word refers to car horns in general, and in verb form () refers to sounding the horn. This is also true in languages such as French (), Italian (), Dutch (), Russian (), Polish (), Spanish (), Romanian (), Czech (), Turkish (), Indonesian (), and Korean (). In countries applying the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, usage of audible warnings is limited, and allowed only in two cases: Vehicle horn A horn is a sound-making device that can be equipped to motor vehicles, buses,
Hoover sound Hoover sound Hoover sound refers to a particular synthesizer sound in electronic music, commonly used in gabber and hard house. Originally called the ""Mentasm"" or ""Dominator"", the name that stuck was the one likening the sound to that of a vacuum cleaner (often referred to via the genericized trademark "hoover" in the UK and Ireland). The Hoover is a complex waveform that can be created with three oscillators, each spaced an octave apart, a heavy use of pulse-width modulation and a thick chorus effect. The sound is characterised by its thick swirliness that stems from a fast LFO controlling the