Hydrophone ambient sounds question

[HEMISENT]

Is there any way at all to tone down or delete the ambient sounds when at the hydrophone station. I'd like to make it as quiet as possible simulating a funker wearing headphones, too many coughs, bubbles, scrapes etc in the background.

This is better in GWX vs NYGM but still annoying as hell.

Originally Posted by HEMISENT

Is there any way at all to tone down or delete the ambient sounds when at the hydrophone station. I'd like to make it as quiet as possible simulating a funker wearing headphones, too many coughs, bubbles, scrapes etc in the background.

This is better in GWX vs NYGM but still annoying as hell.

At one point, back using heavily-modded vanilla, I'd installed a hydrophone mod that cut out all background noise when you were manning the hydrophones. The only thing you heard was from outside the boat. Unfortunately I've no idea what that mod was called now.

[HEMISENT]

Now that you mention it I think I recall that same mod-I need to look thru my old stuff.
If someone could do it back then, then there has to be a way.

[Vikinger]

Originally Posted by HEMISENT

Is there any way at all to tone down or delete the ambient sounds when at the hydrophone station. I'd like to make it as quiet as possible simulating a funker wearing headphones, too many coughs, bubbles, scrapes etc in the background.

This is better in GWX vs NYGM but still annoying as hell.

Iam not sure if this is the file you can change but i guess it is the amb_hydrophone.wav

You can tune down the volume in the file so it doesnt sounds so loud.

Just use windows own soundrecorder.
open the file, then on the the tab, effects, you can tune down the volume.
Do this as many times you like untill you get the volume you prefer and then save the file.

[Venatore]

Originally Posted by Vikinger

You can tune down the volume in the file so it doesnt sounds so loud.

Just use windows own soundrecorder.
open the file, then on the the tab, effects, you can tune down the volume.
Do this as many times you like untill you get the volume you prefer and then save the file.

If your not sure and you need someone to do it; just PM and I'll do one up for you.

[HEMISENT]

Originally Posted by Vikinger

Iam not sure if this is the file you can change but i guess it is the amb_hydrophone.wav

You can tune down the volume in the file so it doesnt sounds so loud.

Just use windows own soundrecorder.
open the file, then on the the tab, effects, you can tune down the volume.
Do this as many times you like untill you get the volume you prefer and then save the file.

Thanks Vikinger, I found this last night and renamed it for a test-"ALL" ambient sounds were gone, the hydrophones were blissfully silent. Now that I know that's the one I'll fiddle with it a bit.

[irish1958]

Before the days of noise canceling and acoustic isolation headphones, I suspect the hydrophone station had a lot of ambient noise to deal with.

[Vikinger]

Originally Posted by irish1958

Before the days of noise canceling and acoustic isolation headphones, I suspect the hydrophone station had a lot of ambient noise to deal with.

There isnt much of ambient noise in the water.
As a scuba diver i only hear the sound of waves when they break the shore if iam close to the shore.

But then at the deep and further out in the sea you dont hear anything more than your own breathing.
All noise/sound you hear is created by humans. Like ships.

its quite amazing that you can hear a ship from real far away and you get the illusion of that you are real close to it but then when you surface and se the ship 1-3 km away.

But i dunno how it would sound thru a hydrophone that magnifie the sound. if you hear background noise. I guess its dependant how close to surface you are and what weather conditions there is. Stormy weather i think could produce some background noise.

[HEMISENT]

Well guys, for me it's simply that since installing GWX ALL the ship sounds appear to be greatly reduced(volume) to a point where I now have to crank my speakers to the moon just to hear beyond 8km. Losing the ambient sounds simply helps. Either that or raise the volume of each individual ship sound.

[shegeek72]

Originally Posted by HEMISENT

Well guys, for me it's simply that since installing GWX ALL the ship sounds appear to be greatly reduced(volume) to a point where I now have to crank my speakers to the moon just to hear beyond 8km. Losing the ambient sounds simply helps. Either that or raise the volume of each individual ship sound.

I increased the volume of the propeller sound files in GW1.1, but since installing GWX I let them be. I have to turn the TV/radio down and the speakers up a bit when listening to the hydrophone, but think it adds challenge to the game. I wonder if they're more accurate?
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[HEMISENT]

Originally Posted by shegeek72

I increased the volume of the propeller sound files in GW1.1, but since installing GWX I let them be. I have to turn the TV/radio down and the speakers up a bit when listening to the hydrophone, but think it adds challenge to the game. I wonder if they're more accurate?

I dont know about accuracy but playability has definately lessened. Prior to GWX I could hear VERY VERY faint convoys out to 28- 33 km with the speakers raised a little, depending on sea state of course. Now I have trouble hearing the same convoys at 10km. Seems like someone lowered all the propeller sounds in GWX.

[Zinmar]

The problem I am running into is that I wear hearing aids, so turning the volume up isn't an option. My wife is always telling me I need to turn my speakers down because it is to loud, but good for me. So if someone could set it up so that the hydrophone was louder I would e tickled!!

[Woof1701]

I'm HEMISENT here. When you're on the hydrophone you still can here people moving and talking silently and all those noises you expect to hear in the officers mess. I think that really distract. In addition those are exactly the sounds the the headphones should block out.

[vanjast]

With a nice pair of military headphones on, you literally hear nothing from the outside world. What little you hear is usually low frequency, low volume and very muffled. whereas the sound from the headphones is crystal clear.
I edited the volume from the ambient hydrophone wav as it got annoyingly 'loud' after many hours of use. I 'live' on hydrophone during attacks and 5 hour escape sessions so too loud an ambient can be irritating.

[Vikinger]

There is also another possibility to adjust the volume.

If you use sh3 mini tweaker you can change the volume settings in the tweak file
Sh3_sdl.txt