Driving Music

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Driving Sounds

  • No music, just engine noise.

    Votes: 20 39.2%

  • Default sound GT5 soundtrack.

    Votes: 7 13.7%

  • Custom soundtrack of my own music.

    Votes: 24 47.1%
  • Total voters
    51
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I'm just curious if you listen to any music while you are driving.
For me, it takes away from the immersive feel of being in a race car.
I prefer to listen to the engine noise and other ambient sounds.
I do listen to the radio in real life when driving around town, but never if I am on a track.
So, what is you sound of choice?
 
I listen to my own playlist in any game I can unless it's a story-heavy game with a lot of dialogue. Nothing gets me in the zone and helps me keep my cool like some trance music. :)
 
I need music while I drive. It helps me get more involved racing.
 
Switched back to default music after hearing my custom music for hours! Though its nice to turn off the music just to listen to the vehicle.
 
I still want an option in the Pause Menu to turn music off. Sometimes it gets distracting.
 
I turned off all the music. Menu and race. They're horrible to me.

Since I play in my room, I leave my computer on for the music stuff while I play.
 
I listen to the engine noises, unless it's an endurance race, then I put my headphones on and listen to some tunes.
 
Doth1s
I listen to the engine noises, unless it's an endurance race, then I put my headphones on and listen to some tunes.
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I can understand having music for the endurance races or grinding tracks that you already won.
I just can't see setting my best time with music playing.
How do you guys know when to shift? I listen to the engine sounds to know when I need to shift.
 
No music for online or non-endurance A-Spec racing. Music for A-Spec endurance events and non-endurance B-Spec. For B-Spec endurance, I go do something else for a while.

I have a hard enough time concentrating on my situational awareness as it is, without clouding it up with distracting music, no matter how much I may like it.
 
I listen to classical, mostly Bach, Pachelbel, and Mozart while I drive, but very lightly in the background. I want to hear every bit of the engine and the car, but I listen to the classical very quietly in the background. Odd, I know.
 
Sadly, there's a lot of information in the engine and road sounds and tire sounds to want to cover it up with music. Maybe on some of the POS Sunday driver cars, with full interiors and muted engine noise, take a nice leisurely drive around the Nürbergring, listen to some gentle music as you cruise along, but you couldn't hear music in a race car even if you WANTED to:dopey:

PD/Sony could take a long hard listen to Shift's engine and driving noises... now THERE'S the snarl and bite of a stripped out, no soundproofing race conversion. Most of GT5's car noises sound as if all the seats and carpets were still in it, even after you drop a ton of money on race modifications. The engine noise should be made MUCH stronger and livelier after the first Weight Reduction, because all that padding and noise insulation would be one of the FIRST things you got rid of... back seats, passenger seats, carpets, pretty much everything that mutes the stock car.

It's amazing how just the SOUND of a race car at full bore adds to the excitement of a game. Watch a Shift replay with the sound off, it's not much different (in its' way) to GT5, with the sound off. Turn the sound back on again, though, and Shift SOUNDS (even though it may not handle or look as good as GT5) a bunch more exciting. Can't say quite the same for GT5, though...
 
since i start playing gt5, i just lower the bar of racing music to zero since i find out that gt5's racing music is crap as chemical romance, but once i played TRON LEGACY SOUNDTRACK.. it changes everything!
 
If I'm just going to cruise around the Nurburgring, I usually just have something like this playing, or similar.

 
I have a couple CDs of the Initial D soundtrack converted to MP3 and put in as a playlist.

Nothing beats Eurodance as racing music :D
 
I don't like to listen to music in the game and don't even listen to the radio in real life, I just want to enjoy the drive.
 
Can't hear music, engine, or tires with that screaming customizable tranny. Does anyone else find that tranny strangely loud? Maybe it's the view I use, but I just push mute.
 
Maybe it's just the in-game music (haven't listened to any of my own), but it sounds strangely thin and tinny. Maybe one of the upgrades you can buy would be a nice Blaupunkt system with a decent subwoofer?!

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Problem is, not all the cars sound that great, so music is a great substitute to fill in that blank hole, 50/50 split, game sounds/custom music. Although everyone is entitled to their own opinion :)
 

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