Tinnitus

Henry Wood · 03-21-09, 05:38 PM

I am most lax in passing on my thanks to all of the modders whose efforts I have used over the years so I am trying to make amends.

First of all, I discovered a mod last week which helped those like myself with hearing problems in making the hydrophone station very much easier to use. This made a great difference to my appreciation of the game and I sincerely thank the creators.

I suffer from tinnitus possibly brought on by working in very noisy environments before ear defenders were ever thought of. For example when I started working in the North Sea oil patch in the early 70s I don't think ear plugs had even been invented and we only wore hard hats when it was raining.

Oh well...

Anyhoo... I used to use one of them "ambient sound machine" thingys to help me get off to sleep because total silence really disturbs me by the whistling etc in my ears. I used to play a sound chip of "waves breaking on the shore". Nowadays, I keep myself right in the mood by using quite a few of the "amb_SubmarineInterior.wav" files to be found among the many mods available. I think the latest one I have used is actually from "Das Boot" and just when I was drifting over to sleep after listening in on a couple of chaps whispering and murmering amongst themselves, I received a very rude awakening when someone started yelling at the others. I almost yelled back at him - "Hey! shaddup! Some of us are trying to sleep!" There is also the clown who keeps opening the door to the engine room and letting us all hear the throb of those engines. I suppose life was just like that in the real things.

It's all good fun and keeps me in the mood.

03-21-09, 05:38 PM	#1
Henry Wood Sparky Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Posts: 150 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	Tinnitus I am most lax in passing on my thanks to all of the modders whose efforts I have used over the years so I am trying to make amends. First of all, I discovered a mod last week which helped those like myself with hearing problems in making the hydrophone station very much easier to use. This made a great difference to my appreciation of the game and I sincerely thank the creators. I suffer from tinnitus possibly brought on by working in very noisy environments before ear defenders were ever thought of. For example when I started working in the North Sea oil patch in the early 70s I don't think ear plugs had even been invented and we only wore hard hats when it was raining. Oh well... Anyhoo... I used to use one of them "ambient sound machine" thingys to help me get off to sleep because total silence really disturbs me by the whistling etc in my ears. I used to play a sound chip of "waves breaking on the shore". Nowadays, I keep myself right in the mood by using quite a few of the "amb_SubmarineInterior.wav" files to be found among the many mods available. I think the latest one I have used is actually from "Das Boot" and just when I was drifting over to sleep after listening in on a couple of chaps whispering and murmering amongst themselves, I received a very rude awakening when someone started yelling at the others. I almost yelled back at him - "Hey! shaddup! Some of us are trying to sleep!" There is also the clown who keeps opening the door to the engine room and letting us all hear the throb of those engines. I suppose life was just like that in the real things. It's all good fun and keeps me in the mood.