Audio Feedback Thread

I was working with my step-uncle on his Jaguar and we got to talking about exhaust systems and he mentioned about it being straight piped but quiet. I asked him how that could be. He told me that how placing the mufflers (straight through) and resonators (straight through) at different points between the headers and the exhaust exit, it could change what frequencies are muffled at which rpms and make less of those annoying high frequencies as you get past 3000 rpms and stuff. For example, having abeefy deep bassy sound at low rpms but have it have it screem when you get up to about 4000-5000 rpms or have a balanced sound all around. This would also be a good way to give headers in the game a bit of variety in sound at certain rpms, such as race headers which have their resonance at relatively high rpms such as 7000 rpms. Pushrods (OHV) tend to be bassy down low, but not so much as you get higher
Hope this helps.

 

Can I disable the Beep sound on the vehicle selector, it was really cool at first, but now its becoming really annoying.

 

hi. i've noticed that the dynamic range of the game is pretty closed off. most cars seem to be pretty universal in volume, but i would expect a car with a straight pipe to be much, much louder than a car with a stock exhaust system. yet it is only a few db louder. i also think engine exhaust notes could use more dynamic range. it would be nice to go from listening to the low purr of a race exhaust, to being able to hear the roar of a loud i4 as the individual cylinders fire under load when you fully accelerate. an engine under load doesn't sound much louder than an engine revving down. the backfire doesn't seem much louder than the car exhaust. im not sure if there is a built in compressor applied to the audio system, but it would be really nice to rectify this. it's pretty strange having some cars being barely louder than the ambient sounds around it.

 

@TDK I like what you did with the 4 and 6-cyl. Hopper sounds. They sound nicely balanced and close in volume now, even though they still have different tones. Thumbs up from me.

 

What is "..effects" in the game?

 

Yup that was me.

 

Any chance for some engine sound remasters?

 

No problem!

 

Thanks for providing an update on this! I noticed that for at least one mod - the Antonov airplane - it seems to have it's engine sound effects tied to this slider. I know we shouldn't be talking mods as it relates to game updates but I wasn't sure if other mod audio may also be tied to this slider? This just came to mind when you mentioned that you had confirmed it only affects UI sounds as, at least in this case, it appears to affect more than that. Perhaps this is just a one-off for the way this mod's audio works but thought it was worth mentioning

 

Locomotive horns are (DMM, WLD, TEM2).