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General Forums => Custom Sounds => Topic started by: Waffle on August 03, 2004, 03:06:01 PM
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Ok guys - new pack is out. Starting with the next version (1.9) I will be using WINRAR to pack the files. This will allow for
a smaller download size. you can get this filecompression utility at: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm.
Now here's 1.8 (zip) Waffles AH2 soundpack 1.8 (http://www.dangreve.com/sounds1.8.zip)
Keep an eye out for mirror sites if D/L slow. I know Lucell will be hosting a mirror through AH-skins.com. And I believe Viperman will also host a mirror. If anyone else can host mirror, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Waffle
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v1.8 changes
Tread.wav (m3 / m16) - had hiss and pop in loop. cnvrtd to 16bit
Fixed several audible loop pop in some samples.
Fixed Hiss and bit-rate noise in some samples.
New panzer ostwind engine / tread sounds.
Added new hit sounds exclusive for different vehicles. light / med / heavy vehicles.
new reload sounds for gvs.
New 190a5/8/f8 sounds
New 190d9/152 sounds
New p47 series / f4u series sounds.
Added new Russian guns sounds to il2 / la5 / la7 / yak9t / yak 9tu
Added new German Gun sounds
Added new 40mm Cannon sound to hurricane2d
now have external sounds for some country specific guns.
Reduced damage effect down -2db
Increased 109s engine start-up / off level.
Individual country dialect specific check 6's(except RU and JP). Gv contact warnings (chk 6)
edited bomb drop / bombwhistle for large bombers.
addded mutltiple check6's and warning files. take your pick. just rename the file (sheep warning best!)
you want to use to check6.wav or warning.wav
********Note to use this file in all aircraft, you will have to delete the
check6file from all of the airplane/gv folders.*******
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also currently seeking any Russian / Japanese "Bandit" calls or check 6's. Also looking for various warnings.
Pls email me at link below if you have any that might work out with this pack.
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Recommend settings:
All volumes on your ah game sounds should be set at 80.
Turn up external Engine sound (aircraft) up to 100
You can turn up your effect volume in the voice setup as these sounds
were mixed for the headphone user / voice user in mind.
Next patch will focus more on Aircraft engine sounds and getting into specific nuances of each type of aircraft, as well as balancing flap/gear sounds, ect.....
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A mirror can be found Here (http://www.jblong.com/files/sounds1.8.zip)
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Thanks Viperman
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Bandwith slow
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Mirror (http://ah-skins.com/waffle/download.php?file=sounds1.8.zip&id=3) :)
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OMG your starting with guns hehe u should make a ju87d-3 sound like when they dive and drop bomb is that posible also HTC makein new planes hehe i think ones going to be b-29 well i dont know why its just a hunch and its not the help file
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OK now it sounds just like mitsu sound pack
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lol - someone take away the sugar coated cherios....
The ju87 wind file was done last patch. Other planes treated with the blending of 2 sounds together were the F4us and 190s. Since I added new 190 engines / I added the high alt "whine" into the wind file. So now when you're going fast enough, the 190s whine, and the f4u whistle....
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the wind noise gives me a head ache.. not be be mean:p
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Originally posted by Sp4de
the wind noise gives me a head ache.. not be be mean:p
You can turn down the wind noise from the clipboard.
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i know. thats why i put in my own wind noise:D
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break yourself fool!
Ha ha. Good one
Waffle
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Originally posted by Waffle BAS
Starting with the next version (1.9) I will be using WINRAR to pack the files
Please don't do that. It converts all winzip files in your toybox to winrar files.
Your not saving much in the conversion. Everyone and there mother is familier with winzip.
Winzip is universal, it works. It's a standard.
I went through an afternoon dumping that program and it's changes to my files a few years back.
I won't be wanting to do it again.
Thanks
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It's very easy during the install of WinRAR to tell it which types of files you wish to open with which program. Just tell WinRAR to only open RAR files and it won't touch you ZIP files. Not that it did anything to them, just associated itself.
Anyway if Waffle makes it a RAR file and people can't use it, I'll repack it as a ZIP and mirror both files.
And if he really wants to compress files he can make them ACE files. ;)
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Originally posted by nopoop
Please don't do that. It converts all winzip files in your toybox to winrar files.
This is simply wrong. With winrar 3.1 I can choose if I want to use ZIP or RAR for the archive. Also this version definetly doesn't run any batch script which converts all archives into RAR files.
Your not saving much in the conversion.
This highly depends on the file types, but RAR is definetly more advanced.
Everyone and there mother is familier with winzip.
Winzip is universal, it works. It's a standard.
Winrar has the same look and features, plus it can handle almost all archives correct and not like winzip.
I went through an afternoon dumping that program and it's changes to my files a few years back.
You will be surprised how things in the computer world changed in the last years. :D
Honestly, I dumped Winzip 3 years ago and use Winrar (for ZIP and RAR archives) without any problems since then.
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I like most of it, but most of the engine start up sounds sound the same. I did not use all of your sounds, but kept alot of mitsu's only because I dont want an a20, la7 and a6m to sound the same sitting on the runway;) Besides that Its pretty good. My new check 6 sound is homer :aok
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Actually, this file when compressed using winrar comes out to be 64mb download.
I believe the pre-compression folder was around 112mb.
winrar doing it in .zip format put it 93mb.
As for next patch....like I said in above post, will be dealing more with specific plane sounds / engine types, ect....as well as correlating operational sound (flaps/gear, ect...) levels within the individual plane.
One thing I'm looking for are good quality samples of the russian plane sets engines. Even if anyone has a crappy version of a fly-by it would help.
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Ever get my sounds waffle:p
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no, never showed up. if they were bigger than 2mb, email msn probably kicked em
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:( can i have your email again then? ill just send you b17
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wait nvm!:lol
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OK i sent them again!! YEAHHHH! lol the ENG sound is b-17g
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Originally posted by AaronM2
OK now it sounds just like mitsu sound pack
Errrmm...is this a good thing or a bad thing? :confused:
I haven't had the chance to listen to the new version, yet. I liked version 1.7. If 1.8 sucks, I'll cancel the download. hehe
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Everything is the same as 1.7 except for the changes mentioned above.
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Originally posted by Waffle BAS
Everything is the same as 1.7 except for the changes mentioned above.
Okay, then, I don't see how it'll sound like mitsu's. lol.
Waffle. wtg!
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get it now::confused:
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cc - got them...little noisy...seems the b17s has alot of pitch shift in it.
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first try.. i think it sounds good in flight.. hope u like the moron one:lol :eek:
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why cant u do updates? why must we download the whole thing over and over again?
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not a software engineer...hell i can pack a groceries or a truck...but not software...lol
Will look in to it...
also I change levels and re'eq things that I don't have the patience to write down everything I changed - just major ones.
And like I said before, I'm just uploaded what I'm using in my sounds folder edited to my taste. Not developing software.
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I LIKE IT WTG WAFFLE!!!!!!!!!:aok
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I tried mixing some sounds from your soundpack with ones from mitsu's, but your sounds are so quiet. I changed the stall buzzer, but could barely hear it over my engine. I turned the stall horn sound up to 100% and could still barely hear it. I guess the only way to really enjoy all of your sounds is use your whole pack.
why cant u do updates? why must we download the whole thing over and over again?
I agree, long download for things ya already have :) I would rather manually place them in there
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Well, from an audio quality standpoint, the reason that they are so quite is that I want to leave the whole waveform intact. Everyone always ends up "boosting" the sounds digitally and it causes a "clipping" of sorts. Granted, I could turn everything up, but it would end up sounding like "arse".
literally. loud distorted sounds, no clarity.
Granted, I know the majority of you don't care about the "science" that goes into audio processing, but I do it for a living, and decided to mix up a little sounds pack for my enjoyment. I figured most would enjoy it also.
But here's a visual to help:
heres a wave of "clipped sound" engine.
(http://www.dangreve.com/clipped.jpg)
Now, if you want to reduce the volume of this file, this is what you would have. (-5db reduction of volume)
(http://www.dangreve.com/reduced.jpg)
Here is the way a wave form should look, when there is no clipping. This is the ENG wav from the 190d9 in 1.8 soundpack.
(http://www.dangreve.com/190d9.jpg)
Anyway, I'm trying to keep most of the sounds where there is no compression / clipping, just because of volumes sake.
Plus all and all it will sound better. Most gaming companies / record companies, tv stations don't realize this.
They all want to have the loudest song on the jukebox, and unfortunelaty, that leaves most recordings these days lifeles and compressed. As well are other mediums. No breathing room.
one current example I can think of off the top of my head in recording issues is the difference between say someone like Avril Lavine? (will call her "squirt" for this instance) and then Nora Jones. (not comparing musical styles here, but quality of recording)
Anyway, if you listen to one of "squirts" songs..you notice there are no dynamic changes..Everything is at one level...you can't really discerne stuff, unlees you have a wide stereo feild set up.
But with Nora song, you can hear the everything...even the room that they recorded in. Very minimul compression...a great sounding album.
Anyway, I'm just going by what I hear in my little headphones :)
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I see where your comin from. but I like things loud:) how bout you make homer screaming "AH BOOGEYMAN" louder and e-mail it to me so I can use that as my check6 call:aok
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I like the volume as is it is now. Before, I always reduced volumes of many things, because they were too loud and covered other sounds. :)
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hehe - i think this sound pack is gonna be aimed towards the older, quiter, discening listener.... :)
Starting on 2.0..skipping 1.9 and going for 2..lol. Gotta figure out how to pack in a smaller download and possibly go with the self extracting / installing set-up.
who knows...
Engine sounds / start-ups / shutdowns as well as flap / gear operations are dominent changes this go round. Trying to make every thing blend in better for each plane.
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Your sounpacks really add a lot to the game. Don't let 'em get too quiet. Loud is good...ever been to an airport before? LOU[size=8]D[/size]!!!
:)
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Love the sounds waffle,WTG.Looking forward to Ver: 00.2:aok
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2.0 out - see BBS
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could we get another mirror, all the previouse ones are broken now, would like to c what the new 38 sound is like.
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look for the soundpack version 2.0 post - 1.8 outdated :)
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Can't hear my gear go up or much else for that matter. Poor sounds.
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Haven't heard the word "clipping" since at least 10 years ago when my friends used to mess around with installing car stereo equipment. They'd run test tones off of a cd through the deck / amp and to a test speaker (I think) as a rough way of adjusting the gains to minimize clipping. Since I didn't get into it as deep as they did, I only remember that clipping = bad and can = damaged speakers.
mauser