Question for the REAL bubbleheads
 

In playing with the various sound mods we have at our disposal I was wondering if you can actually hear a torpedo/missile launch from compartments other than the torpedo room? Like the Con for example? And if you can does "reality" sound more like the "stock" version of DW or the Blackmuzzle/Finitless sound mod?

Spoken to a royal navy sonar officer who was on HMS Onyx and if he dipped frequency low enough he could hear what was going on in the conn.

so yes you should hear missile torpedo launch as well as CM's launching

You know something young man? You may want to consider changing your sig just a little. :shifty:

I already saw that one :D

Yes, you can hear it in the forward compartments and FEEL it throught the whole ship when you shoot. At least on American subs you can.

As for the sound. It is totally different for reasons I can not get into.

What sound would an air ram make...?

Would it be completely isolated from the environmental system or would such a charge on the HP air cause pressure changes in the crew compartment...?

I guess I'll never know... :doh:

I do know the human vestibular system is pretty damn sensitive to sudden pressure fluxations... :know:

Air has to go somewhere when it is vented. That amount of air vented does in fact make a change in air pressure, but it is not much when you start dealing with the internal volumn of air the pressure hull has.

Thanks for the reply Bubblehead! So would you stick with the stock sounds in DW or the Mod?

Um, to be honest, I do not know if I have heard both of them.

where is the mod one?

The sound mods are available at www.subguru.com ! :up: :)

What's your opinion LW?

I use the following Mods on all version of DW on my computer: Bill's corrected HeloDipping Doctrine Mod, Kegerty's small fonts mod, and all of finiteless' stand alone sounds mods both ambient and interface (the ones you download and install individually), and of course the LWAMI Mod. :up:

You should have had the experiance of sleeping on top of the ejection pump on a 637 class! I always had a rack with some valve or another in it.

My first rack was right in forward crews, port side, bottom right in front of the head. That put me right over the port side tubes. One hell of a way to wake up the first time they shot a water slug. Of course, being a nuke I never went to sub school and I had NO idea what the heck had happened.

I traded to after crews berthing after that.

Our berthing was between the missile tubes. :o :yep:

Same thing for a friend of mine over at BoB.

He's 6' 7", which is of course is waiver time for a nuke, even on an Ohio.

His bunk for his first cruise was on the bottom between the first two rows missiles... first battle stations drill he's 4 hours into sleep, smacks his head on the bottom of the bunk above him and runs, bleeding from the forehead and nose in his t-shirt and boxers, bearfoot, back into the engineering area to report at his station. :rotfl:

Needless to say, he was reminded that he has to show up to stations in uniform... :arrgh!:

The Alaska tried their best to have rates with the same berthing. Our sonar berthing was between three and five. The deck crew had it better...their berthing was in the storeman's area...piece and quiet in relative terms.

Re: Question for the REAL bubbleheads
 

I can recall being as far aft as engine room lower level (688) and feeling the deck vibrate.

I can also recall a collision drill when I was really junior where the CO ordered an air slug from the 3" launcher to simulate the impact. That really scared the bejesus out of me at the time.

Unfortunately, I have never taken the time to get the sounds for DW so, I cannot make the comparison. But, now you know that torpedo room operations do infact have an impact throughout the ship.

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Re: Question for the REAL bubbleheads
 

I'll never forget our normally pretty sedate 250 lb doc FLYING out of the 3" launcher space into crews mess when we shot one of those slugs. (I can't repeat what he yelled, but it was heard throughout the boat even if the launch wasn't)

We forgot to tell him we were doing a torpedo evasion drill...oops.