Audio Feedback Thread

The way you have worked the muffling from a distance is beautiful! As mentioned in your previous post it's more than just a reduction in SPL, beautiful.

Now the only complaints I have:

1.) There is no global, "overall volume for all cars" slider
2.) Afterfire pops are far too quiet - especially from a distance, they should be heard 4-5x further than the engine
3.) Police sirens have very little range currently, again should be heard far louder and further than the engines.
4.) Windows being blown out and open cockpits should remove the interior sound stage

These are personal issues, and I'm using this forum as an outlet but . . I wouldn't mind if they the ideas were taken into account! =D

Absolutely love how it's progressing!

 

Well, it was non-existent before - as in surround was not supported in-game. So if you thought it had it, perhaps you've got something going on in your audio setup.

As for volumes, you will start noticing games getting quieter over time now as developers start to adhere to global loudness standards. Just the like music industry, we've been suffering from a "loudness war" as well, and considering this is a sim and not an arcade game, it's a good idea to follow these standards. Unfortunately, if other games do not, there will be a difference betwen them. We've yet to find that 'magic' compromise, but everything is in place to follow it.
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Thank you.

1) Yes, there are many improvements we want to make to the audio settings, to give you guys more control. We've started the process of changing our mixing structure to allow for this.

2) Afterfire's are something on the list to revamp - since we're not recording our own vehicle's we also are reliant on third parties for these, and they almost always won't be from the same vehicle that we want. We have some good ideas on how to fix this.

3) We'll have a look.

4) The windows and open cockpits, as I've already mentioned on the forum, is a lot more complicated unfortunately. It's something we are pushing for, but there are some code issues to be sorted out, and so it goes on a priority list with every other code feature all disciplines are pushing for. I think, in all honesty, it is unfortunately unlikely.

 

I've just loaded the car now and I can't say I can hear background noise. It's using the same samples as the SBR4 but has been EQ'd to make it sound less powerful, so that kinda makes sense in that the strong harmonics/tone will be less, leaving more of the mechanical noise to that engine/exhaust recording. Perhaps that's what you're hearing.

 

That would be odd as the samples are synthetically generated in some way. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

 

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1) I believe the engine and exhaust position will follow wherever you put the engine and exhaust on the vehicle, but the ability to be able to change the emitter angle is not exposed currently.

2) Probably not, no.

 

Go to the settings.ini and change the sounds from 128 to 256 =)

 

Only happen during replays? I noticed it would happen during replays and when near sound emitters in the game. But 256 for me solved it. Using a Sound Blaster Z!