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

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Apr 22, 2013
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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.
 
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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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"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.
 
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.
 
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