New Falcon ATC voices for theaters.

[marvin157th]

Hey guys,

As I am working on my new Balkans campaign I wanted better sounding ATC voices then the original ones that came with the Balkans theater. Now I am probably only going to do the main airbases as it would be way TOO much work to do every airfield in the Balkans theater. That being said I would also like to offer my support and do this for other theaters in the work also.

Anyway, here are two examples with different types of mixing on my voice to try and match the quality of the ATC in the sim.

http://imgshare.no-ip.info/157files/4jo ... notest.wav

http://imgshare.no-ip.info/157files/4jo ... proach.wav

Also playing around with existing comm files, I edit some to my desire. I edited the "Resume own navigation" to say switch uniform 307.30 (the old guard channel) as if the ATC is handing you off to the common channel used in falcon for all AI comms.

http://imgshare.no-ip.info/157files/4jo ... ale(1).wav

Let me know what you think, or what I can do to improve the quality. The hard part now is finding a female to match the female ATC.

Jody

[ranger822]

Can you lay out the process of making voices - tranferring into Falcon. We have tried working ATC voices but - but I can't seem to get them working properly, and second those that have heard them indicate they are muffled or unintelligable.

[marvin157th]

Well I assure you that what you hear is exactly how they sound while in Falcon.

Jody

[ranger822]

I dont' doubt your word - can you lay out the process of making them, step by step - with the exact codec format, tools you are using in such way that others can also do what you are doing?

[marvin157th]

Sorry for the delay! Sure thing, give me a couple days and I will look for my notes. I think you will be surprised how simple it really is, and most was done with just Windows sound recorder.

I have contemplated redoing a lot of the voices, you know adding sounds with actors using a mask, accents etc. However, the real issue is continuity which is the key. This would need a full time setup where one could maintain continuity with the voices and processesing. For me, part time and minimal, I just don't see how that could be possible to produce a good project.

Jody

[ranger822]

Excellent - If it is really easy and quick maybe I will do it myself. Might be fun

[marvin157th]

ranger,

Great stuff.. That is one area I plan to revisit when I find some time. What I did was pretty simple and quick, however, the real trick is matching the sounds as close as possible. I invested about an hour into it, and as you can hear is not too bad considering. The real problem I had with sound matching, is after compressing the sounds, they of course sounded different. So you had to try and match the sound quality, then compress it. So the process is long, however once you match it, and have continuity with it you might work out well.

Either way, I will get into some detail with how and what I used, and that should get you started to see what you come up with.

Jody