Coin magic - Raven is too noisy, how to reduce it?

prebuds · Apr 28, 2013

Hi!

I bought the Raven trick, and I've got a problem. When a coin sticks on magnet, there is a metallic noise. I must put something around magnet, which is thin and reduce noise when coin is sticking to magnet.

What kind of material do you suggest for me? I tried simply cotton, clothes and a piece of polyfoam, but it wasn't too good.

ii3randonmagic · Apr 28, 2013

The raven should already come with the black padding around it?

prebuds · Apr 28, 2013

Yes, there was a very thin black textile, but I wasn't satisfied with it, because it was too noisy

I wanna find a better material. Maybe some jelly insole for women shoes?

ii3randonmagic · Apr 28, 2013

To be completely honest unless you're performing the raven for yourself in a completely secluded room you should be fine with the black cloth around it. Reason being you are talking, spectators are talking and unless it is a very loud clanking noise you shouldn't have a problem. You have to think about all of the factors, restaurants are noisy, cars are noisy, small theaters are noisy even performing at tables is noisy. You shouldn't have a problem getting away with the preset pad.

-Brandon

prebuds · Apr 28, 2013

I do it for a few people in my home, and they can hear the noise sometime. So that's why I wanna make it less noise.

Josh Burch · Apr 28, 2013

Yeah I had a similar problem. I like the idea but it took too long for me to reset in real working environments so I sold mine.

prebuds · Apr 29, 2013

I tried many materials, and I think I've find the best!

It is the mix of cotton and rubber: also soft and sating slam. This is a wide rubber tape, some people uses it for clothes. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XhdLutSfr...yuSyCtbk/s1600/02+kupak+recycle+penztarca.jpg - you can see a picture here, the material is in the wrist.

Try this! It is very-very silent when the coin attaches to the magnet, so it's near perfect, much better, than the original!

Craig Browning · Apr 29, 2013

I've never had a problem with a Raven "talking" as you're describing, but then I'm used to a lot more noise coming from props (you should stand next to big illusions when they work, or when you have big animals sniffing you through the cloth. . . ) The old "fix" has always been "turn up the volume". . . be it music or your voice. Another ploy is to replicate the sound by way of an apparent nervous habit; I use a billet technique in which this very thing is done so as to obfuscate the sound of tearing paper.

Always experiment with other methods before you go dissecting a prop/gimmick and trying to reinvent the wheel.

prebuds · Apr 30, 2013

Craig Browning said:
I've never had a problem with a Raven "talking" as you're describing, but then I'm used to a lot more noise coming from props (you should stand next to big illusions when they work, or when you have big animals sniffing you through the cloth. . . ) The old "fix" has always been "turn up the volume". . . be it music or your voice. Another ploy is to replicate the sound by way of an apparent nervous habit; I use a billet technique in which this very thing is done so as to obfuscate the sound of tearing paper.

Always experiment with other methods before you go dissecting a prop/gimmick and trying to reinvent the wheel.

"Always experiment with other methods before you go dissecting a prop/gimmick and trying to reinvent the wheel." You are wrong. Now The Raven is much better, not as noisy as before.

JButterfield · Apr 30, 2013

If you come at the coin kind of low, more of a horizontal movement that a vertical one, it talks less. And work it so your patter covers the action.