Soundsource

[sparhawk]

I just found a site with free sound effects. I'm sure that there are some which we can use.

 

http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

 

If you remove the /sounds/ part and enter the main part of the URL there are opther sources as well, like gfx and stuff.

[pakmannen]

There are millions of these sites, but it's almost always crap. Any site which has good quality sfx charges money, often on a per sound basis.

 

I'll check it out anyway, you never know..

[sparhawk]

I checked some sounds and most of them are pretty low quality. Usually the cutoff is to high, so it often sounds as if it were cut off in the middle.

[sparhawk]

BTW: Do we have some heavy bell tolling FX? A big and slow one.

[pakmannen]

There should be a few churchbells in sound/ambient/environmental

[sparhawk]

Ah! Thanks.

[sparhawk]

I found them. The second one is approximately what I had in mind, but i would rather have one which is deeper. This one sounds pretty light. How can I do such an effect?

[pakmannen]

You can try and lower the pitch in some soundediting program. It might do what you want.

[sparhawk]

What program is good for that?

[Ishtvan]

Goldwave is one freeware one that I like a lot.

[pakmannen]

Yeah, try Goldwave

[Schatten]

DUNG!

 

(made in a hurry, so might not be adequate to your needs)

[Darkness_Falls]

LOL! Now *that's* a DUNG!

[sparhawk]

Ah! Thanks. I check it today.

[Schatten]

If you try the sound I provided in-game, please tell me how it turns out. There are several things I'm intrested in (of course, depending on the settings in your soundshader):

 

This is a stereo file, so if you shade it to Mono (to allow the game to assign a direction to it), does the quality reduction cause the bell tone to sound broken/bad/icky/poo?

 

There's a lot of reverb on it. Does the long verb-trail sound ok or does it sound akward (again, especialy if you set it to Mono)?

 

(Of course, if you just wanted a new windows error beep, ignore this )

[sparhawk]

Actually I didn't want this sound for ingame. I hope you don't mind, because I wanted to use for some other stuff but I still have to listen to it, because I have to get home first.

[Schatten]

Nah, I don't mind at all. I'm just eager for some feedback on stuff like this - helps me to improve.

 

Pak, if you chance to read this - we really need to run a few tests like this and maybe create a little guideline (ie "environmental sfx must be mono and have no verb, no phasers and flangers in stereo samples...")

 

(Edit: Oh yeah, testing how sfx and ambients stack would be a good thing too. What does it sound like if the shaders of two electric coils, one generator, ambient woo and a frienzied zombie cross-over etc...)

[sparhawk]

It would be best to bring this to teh attention of the mappers, because they can put it in their maps so you can actually hear it there.

[Dram]

i actually tested it just a while ago. Sounds really good in game especially if you place it relatively far away and have stereo sound on

 

Great work

[sparhawk]

DUNG!

 

(made in a hurry, so might not be adequate to your needs)

 

It's almost perfect. It just sounds a bit dull, as if it were somehow muffled. If the sound would be a bit more clearer it would be perfect. I also cut away a bit of the beginning. There is a segment that is pretty narrow short of the first second and this is a very good starting point. The first part gives me the impression as if there were two bells swinging with a fraction of a second behind the other. Strangely this impression vanishes when I cut it at this narrow point.

It is at about 0.86 where I start it.

 

But in general it is exactly what I had in mind.

[Darkness_Falls]

I envisioned that DUNG! as something that is very close to what we could use for the opening of every mission. Something emphatic and makes a statement, like what they did in Thief 2. Maybe not as much 'bell' as that DUNG! -- and maybe a bit harder punch at the beginning -- but something nice, deep and bassy like it.