posted 04-27- 03:03 PM               

Heya... I was just thinking in the shower a few minutes ago about a post by Meatwater I saw at the B-17II forum (Spanky- check out downloads at www.bombs-away.net for the sounds)- and remember when he was going to do a second sound-pack for SDOE. Since that time he has been swamped by offers from other games and was getting paid to do it! So-- maye there's a way to get an amount of $ (I'm willing to put some in if I can scrape some together) from the uswers here to "hire" Meatwater to add-on some sounds- like for the guns, rockets, bombs, flaps, etc...and for some of the new planes that don't have custom engines. I mean we had a pool for the contest and got a great number of new planes-- maybe by doing this, we can continue to improve the game to our liking...and later "if" we ever get OpenSource- do the same for that select group so they have a little incentive to work on that (although if that is ever released, I have a feeling for most here, that would be incentive enough )

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posted 04-27- 09:03 PM               

Ok I just took a listen to the sounds there.

I will be honest that i only listed to the RM and wav versions of the p51d start up sound.

I am VERY unimpressed. If those are to be used in the game I will have to turn it of or replace them right away.

I'll check out the B17

Those must just be for our listening pleasure, there is no way they could be planing on using those in the sim.

posted 04-27- 10:28 PM               

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posted 04-27- 11:24 PM               

Ok then
i will check out taht one too.

Is it ONE indvidual engine start up or all of them? It better be one if they use it in game.

posted 04-27- 11:31 PM               

Ok well That sound is much better but it sounds all messed. Sounds like its a couple engines or an engine thats having a hard time starting.

Maybe tommorow or on the weekend i will post some start sounds i was thinking of transfering from video tape to wav.

posted 05-01- 01:25 PM               

K well at least i'm not the only sound critic.

I really don't see why with all these museums that have flying planes, that it should be hard to get some good sounds for the games.

It maybe be expensive to do. Sending a guy on the road for a couple months with an expensive portable recorder and the training to use it. BUT boy would it pay off.

Also I hate the way those cool shows on discovery and other shows, show a plane starting up but then start playing music or talking over it.

I want to hear the plane, not some dumb ass. Tell me what you want AFTER ya let me hear it. Maybe while its flying around and your playing that cheezy 80s techno.

K I have a sound that I got of a MONO low quality VHS tape. I had to cut it early cause the bastard started talking. and theres hiss because of the VCR (not mine) used.

Its been converted to stereo but thats it.

Use it if ya like but its a little hissy for my tastes. Maybe someone can edit it a bit. When I tried to take the his off It took away too much of the high end.

Its a P51 racer starting up.

posted 05-01- 01:30 PM               

Oh yeah.

I have a lanc starting up and a b29 starting up on a much better tape around here somewhere that i may convert.

I could have had a great Spit start up too. but again someone started talking.

I almost had an AMAZING swordfish startup sound. NO talking and all the sound right from first crank to smooth running.

posted 05-01- 01:50 PM               

Also, since you have a good sound system and I don't can you go here http://mail.ckm9.com/moustic/fsdoe/index1.html and download the Spitfire and B-17 sounds and tell me what you think? The b-17 file is large but kicks ass on my little speakers. I don't remember the spitfire sound, I think I use it.

posted 05-01- 02:34 PM               

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

That positivly SUCKS ASS, HUGE FAT LIKE MY MOMS ASS.

Its horrible.

In one your standing out in front or beside and engine with the mufflers and prop flaping in the air.

In the other, your sitting in a big aluminum can BOLTED to this massive beast all rattling and humming and such.

Alot of the high end should be dimmed and a couple new sounds added for alll the parts rattleing and humming.

I guess thats too much to ask. I fully exspect that even the next round of SIMs won't do this.

I'll download and check that sound out. Thanks for the link.

posted 05-01- 02:39 PM               

Those links are dead man.

Let me know when they are fixed.

posted 05-02- 07:15 PM               

We have also digitally recorded all of the planes engines, across their rev ranges and broken the recordings down into thier elemental sounds. We than use our own home developed software to reconstitute the engine sounds in the correct mix for the engines current state. This means that you hear no ‘loops’, but more impressively the engine sounds seamlessly respond to your actions with the throttle, not only the pitch, but the whole texture and characteristic of the engine sound will change realistically through the whole rev range.

posted 05-02- 07:53 PM               

I wish there was a sound sample around though.

Cause even with all that processing thoes soudns will never sound good. Not the ones on bombs away.net anyways.

posted 05-04- 05:04 PM               

Well on this topic again.

There was a post about sounds from ww2 online on furballmag.com

http://www.wwiionline.com/shots.html#movsound

like he says they arn't being generated by the in game sound enging but more of a visualation of what he wants to create.