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Title: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: RODBUSTR on May 05, 2018, 10:23:30 PM
      The noise turrets and the 88 flak make are not like anything I ever experienced in reality.   Here They sound more like the dragging of a huge piece of concrete over the top of another that is suspended  off the ground.  AH 2 sound options would let Us silence it.   Have a blast.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 05, 2018, 11:46:52 PM
      The noise turrets and the 88 flak make are not like anything I ever experienced in reality.   Here They sound more like the dragging of a huge piece of concrete over the top of another that is suspended  off the ground.  AH 2 sound options would let Us silence it.   Have a blast.

So you're a former 88 flak gunner?
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Vraciu on May 06, 2018, 01:05:29 AM
      The noise turrets and the 88 flak make are not like anything I ever experienced in reality.   Here They sound more like the dragging of a huge piece of concrete over the top of another that is suspended  off the ground.  AH 2 sound options would let Us silence it.   Have a blast.

You’ve fired an 88 before?  :O
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 06, 2018, 02:13:17 AM
What experience do you have in reality? How many recordists are you aware of that have actually recorded real turrets?
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Vraciu on May 06, 2018, 10:27:47 AM
What experience do you have in reality? How many recordists are you aware of that have actually recorded real turrets?

Hand him a screwdriver, Chalenge.    :salute
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Devil 505 on May 06, 2018, 11:12:37 AM
Hand him a screwdriver, Chalenge.    :salute

Based on all the nonsense he posts here, I'd say he's had more than enough.  :devil
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Vraciu on May 06, 2018, 11:45:52 AM
Based on all the nonsense he posts here, I'd say he's had more than enough.  :devil

The OTHER kind.  The number one choice for tightening screws that are loose.   :D



Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 06, 2018, 04:28:58 PM
T-34/85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiNsy42SFI
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: lyric1 on May 06, 2018, 06:28:14 PM
T-34/85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiNsy42SFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opjR9hTn5DE  :rofl
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 06, 2018, 06:46:38 PM
Yeah, I have a feeling the bell is intentional? Not absolutely sure about that.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: 1ijac on May 07, 2018, 02:03:37 PM
      The noise turrets and the 88 flak make are not like anything I ever experienced in reality.   Here They sound more like the dragging of a huge piece of concrete over the top of another that is suspended  off the ground.  AH 2 sound options would let Us silence it.   Have a blast.

You can simply go:     clipboard > options > preferences > game sounds > click on advanced button > highlight actuators > reduce volume to where you want it.

One-eye
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: bustr on May 07, 2018, 02:56:34 PM
Man and here all I wanted is the paint tool in the terrain editor that can be set so only a percentage of pixels inside of the brush circle will be painted. That Hitech would set that function to the raise hill tool so one click at 1ft per second would create a micro terrain area of random tiny hills around a spawn for GVs.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: FESS67 on May 07, 2018, 03:10:16 PM
You can simply go:     clipboard > options > preferences > game sounds > click on advanced button > highlight actuators > reduce volume to where you want it.

One-eye

Are you sure that works one-eye?  It used to in AH2 however I gave up trying to do it in AH3.  I admit I have not tried in quite some time.

Whilst Rodbustr may not always come across to us in the best way we have to admit the sounds in AH3 are pretty average.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: RODBUSTR on May 08, 2018, 03:54:01 AM
   No but I have experience  tinkering with several types of anti aircraft artillery, armor and work with heavy equipment which has much of the same design and technology that turreted armor does and none sound like that. They are precision instruments.  Keep the troll wagon rolling though... Have a blast.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 08, 2018, 08:18:53 AM
I understand your frustration with the sounds. I went back and listened to them and I agree that the default sounds are not the same as the actual gun. I was not able to handle an 88 myself, but I did record one firing several shots. Also, the 40mm Bofors, which I really loved and was able to fire. I think probably the 88 doesn't have much sound. It's a bit like the Storch flaps, or the F4F landing gear being hand cranked most of the sound comes from the operator. Plus, I bet the 88 takes a lot less power than either airplane I mentioned, so there wouldn't be much effort.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: bustr on May 08, 2018, 12:27:34 PM
The 88 traverse sound appears to be a looped best estimate sound of some kind of hand gear rotating a large object around a lubed pinon. Exactly what you see in the maintenance manual for the 88. Wonder if some museum in Texas has an 88 and allowed HTC to rotate it? Always thought the wheel break noise would get this treatment since it sounds exactly like a time I had to drag a load of defunct washing machines across a concrete pad by hand. And then the 88 when it goes off sounds like a tympani player tuning his drum. I have listened to that process.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: mbailey on May 08, 2018, 08:23:40 PM
So you're a former 88 flak gunner?
  No but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 08, 2018, 08:52:04 PM
The 88 traverse sound appears to be a looped best estimate sound of some kind of hand gear rotating a large object around a lubed pinon. Exactly what you see in the maintenance manual for the 88. Wonder if some museum in Texas has an 88 and allowed HTC to rotate it? Always thought the wheel break noise would get this treatment since it sounds exactly like a time I had to drag a load of defunct washing machines across a concrete pad by hand. And then the 88 when it goes off sounds like a tympani player tuning his drum. I have listened to that process.

American Aero, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. They have restored tons of these guns.

http://americanaeroservices.com/german-flak-88-cannons/
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: BuckShot on May 08, 2018, 10:33:01 PM
Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor not a WW2 German 88mm flak gunner!
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: lyric1 on May 09, 2018, 01:18:40 AM
The 88 traverse sound appears to be a looped best estimate sound of some kind of hand gear rotating a large object around a lubed pinon. Exactly what you see in the maintenance manual for the 88. Wonder if some museum in Texas has an 88 and allowed HTC to rotate it? Always thought the wheel break noise would get this treatment since it sounds exactly like a time I had to drag a load of defunct washing machines across a concrete pad by hand. And then the 88 when it goes off sounds like a tympani player tuning his drum. I have listened to that process.

About the 26 second mark you can just hear the rotation sound among the other noises for about a second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCNrIgCA8v0
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Vraciu on May 09, 2018, 05:50:05 AM
  No but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night

 :rofl :aok

Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor not a WW2 German 88mm flak gunner!

 :rofl :aok
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 09, 2018, 06:16:58 AM
I can post the sound, but it would spoil things. The way the game is right now the turrets are always powered. If we could have events set for unpowered turrets, then we could add "multisounds" for powered and unpowered (plus polyphony and 3D offsets). The 88mm is obviously unpowered, but there are a few tanks that have manual cranks as well. I would be tempted to use the same sound for all manual turrets, because that is the whole point of FMOD.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Meatwad on May 09, 2018, 07:00:52 AM
   No but I have experience  tinkering with several types of anti aircraft artillery, armor and work with heavy equipment which has much of the same design and technology that turreted armor does and none sound like that. They are precision instruments.  Keep the troll wagon rolling though... Have a blast.


(http://www.timjamesscience.com/uploads/7/0/3/8/70381823/published/riiight.jpg)
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: bustr on May 09, 2018, 10:23:06 AM
American Aero, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. They have restored tons of these guns.

http://americanaeroservices.com/german-flak-88-cannons/


One phone call and a polite request to record 30sec of traverse sound.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Mister Fork on May 09, 2018, 11:37:44 AM

One phone call and a polite request to record 30sec of traverse sound.
+1 - yep. And ask them to time it how long it takes to traverse 360° ... :p
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: lyric1 on May 10, 2018, 12:44:10 AM
+1 - yep. And ask them to time it how long it takes to traverse 360° ... :p

We know that.

http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/88mm-antiaircraft-gun/88mm-antiaircraft-gun-introduction.html
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Mister Fork on May 10, 2018, 09:39:33 AM
We know that.

http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/88mm-antiaircraft-gun/88mm-antiaircraft-gun-introduction.html
Good info there Lyric... still, ours is on the low gear, or SLOW gear. The video I posted shows a MUCH faster transverse rate - guess it depends on how 'motivated' the gun crew is... (i.e. not hung over from previous night, arms not tired from sand bagging or digging latrines, spanking the monkey, that kind of stuff). :D
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: lyric1 on May 10, 2018, 12:03:34 PM
Good info there Lyric... still, ours is on the low gear, or SLOW gear. The video I posted shows a MUCH faster transverse rate - guess it depends on how 'motivated' the gun crew is... (i.e. not hung over from previous night, arms not tired from sand bagging or digging latrines, spanking the monkey, that kind of stuff). :D

That was just one part of the entire document.

http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/88mm-antiaircraft-gun/index.html
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: RODBUSTR on May 10, 2018, 08:07:01 PM
  It is not frustration. It is a comment. and It matters not what I state akak will  most likely always dispute it.  Anything with  bearings that are in proper working order don't sound like the turrets  or other precision equipment like the   traverse and elevation controls of a large gun like the Flak 36.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 10, 2018, 08:42:05 PM
Rod, you're not making sense. What you just said is that the Flak 36 doesn't sound like itself?

Anyway, the sound is, I believe, like many other sounds in the game. It is intended to satisfy more than a single slot for sound. That helps to keep the download size for the game small, and also keeps the game speedy. I am not even close to having all of the sounds finished, and the sound pack size is already getting to be substantial. That is the inevitable consequence of having individual sounds for every gun, vehicle, and aircraft.

If you really don't like the sound just get yourself a copy of FMOD, record some gears going "clack-clack-clack" and make your own sound pack.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: bustr on May 11, 2018, 04:44:17 PM
Rod,

Contact American Aero Services and see if they can record one being traversed or ask them what it sounds like. No one in this conversation has been next to one when it was traversed including yourself. Hitech goes with his data until you can provide better real data. That has always been how it works here.
Title: Re: grease the turrets and larger pivoting weapons
Post by: Chalenge on May 11, 2018, 09:13:24 PM
Rod,

. . . No one in this conversation has been next to one when it was traversed including yourself. . . .

Not quite true.