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Sound Filter Bugs/Sound Inadequacies: Tanks, Missiles, Guns VIDEO
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{EDIT: Added video link to PCML demo and mission file below.

EDIT: Added links to MBT Live fire videos, will continue to update. See below for my comments on those videos. The sound of the MBT guns in general is problematic. As of 1.07.1126(8? Can't decipher your ingame font)41 the aliasing artifacts are not fixed, and the impact sound of the APFSDS is still much louder than the gunshot itself.}

When firing the main gun in MBT's, especially at larger distance, the sound becomes massively distorted in a bad way.

It is obviously fizzing, overcompensated and saturated, and does not resemble anything that would happen in the atmosphere.

Further, all guns display electric rather than atmospheric distortion. The noise that is especially prominent in the report from the tank guns can be heard in virtually every sound.

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Legacy ID
1598335225
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Sound
Additional Information

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0sSnfIUPJM&feature=youtu.be
recording 2, PCML firing on the range, release version (no dev) 04.11.2013. Note HEAVY distortion. Compare to Titan and RPG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9iTDHlDqDY&feature=youtu.be
recording 1, MBTs firing on the range 21.09.2013

Important note: I will begin to go through the sounds as figure out discrepancies and oddities, and update this post as I am able to collect more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPJ4MnONwk0 Iraqi T-72s. note absence of the weird bassy reverb. Guns are not subwoofers, the noise is extremely high pitched and sharp (actually, it`s rather like a single pulse of high amplitude, not a stretched out sound.). The sound of the C4 explosive ingame is closer to real sound behaviour from a gun like this than the current sample. The sound only should get bassier as the distance gets larger. Armed Assault did this well, as did that competitor from 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jfkZZ-73s Iraqi M1s. My emphasis is really on how short and sharp the noise is. It is -loud-. The blast wave picks bricks up from the ground around the muzzle: the sound should reflect this. You have got the sounds spot on with the rifles and the autocannon on the IFVs: please fix the MBT gun sounds too.

Example (poor quality, I know): http://youtu.be/p4mqGvIlstE?t=1m56s

Note the sharp bang, and lack of bassy reverb. In real life you would obviously feel a punch and shock going through your diaphragm, which ingame could possibly be emulated by increasing the frequency range of the gunshot as well as the volumne across distance. Falloff and reverb will need to receive an "airy" quality, instead of the current "bassy" quality.

Currently the reverb on most guns sounds like a rattling subwoofer fading out under the ground, on top of the filter issues documented above. Again, the filters sound electric, not atmospheric. I hope that this can be alleviated.

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InstaGoat edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
InstaGoat set Category to Sound.
InstaGoat set Reproducibility to Always.
InstaGoat set Severity to None.
InstaGoat set Resolution to Open.
InstaGoat set Legacy ID to 1598335225.May 7 2016, 4:55 PM
FrankHH added a subscriber: FrankHH.May 7 2016, 4:55 PM

Confirmed. Also happens when you are close to the tank.

Terminology corrected: the problem appears to be sound aliasing. The sound samples are bad. Why are the explosions these long sounds that sound like tyres bursting, rather than short, hard, explosive bangs?