Engine Sounds are too quiet?

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I was wondering if any one else has this issue. The engine sounds seem very low, e.g. if in the Ferrari 458 it is wispper quite, this is in the car view, if I look left, right or behind in the car it is nice and load.

When in car as you go quicker it gets quiter other then wind noise, is this right?
 
Yup. You gotta think, that in the Ferrari, the engine is behind you. Add to that the fact that you are travelling at pretty fast speeds, the sound of the engine is not going to get ahead of the car.

You'd also expect that an expensive car like the 458 would have decent cabin insulation/noise reduction in real life.

It seems pretty accurate to me.
 
I've found engine volume to be quite inconsistent. It's mostly when you are amongst a pack of cars. The volume of your car decreases and the cars around you get louder, yet when you pull clear your own volume increases again. This is when using bumper cam, i've not used the other views enough to see if its the same across the board.
 
I'm pretty sure you can adjust engine volume independently in the options, so make it higher than everything else and you're sorted.
 
TheCracker
I've found engine volume to be quite inconsistent. It's mostly when you are amongst a pack of cars. The volume of your car decreases and the cars around you get louder, yet when you pull clear your own volume increases again. This is when using bumper cam, i've not used the other views enough to see if its the same across the board.
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I've noticed this aswell. It's quite annoying and hard to ignore. I would rather it just stayed on the lower volume pitch rather than skipping randomly between volumes. :yuck:

MidianGTX
I'm pretty sure you can adjust engine volume independently in the options, so make it higher than everything else and you're sorted.
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I think you only have a choice between Race Sound Effects and Race BGM.
 
1000 Watt 5.1 Surround Sound with Dynamic Range Control here = awesome loud engine sounds.
 
TheCracker
I've found engine volume to be quite inconsistent. It's mostly when you are amongst a pack of cars. The volume of your car decreases and the cars around you get louder, yet when you pull clear your own volume increases again. This is when using bumper cam, i've not used the other views enough to see if its the same across the board.
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Yes I've found this too, as I also use bumper cam, and it's most annoying. It does the same thing when I go over a rumble strip on an apex. I can hear the thud thud thud of the rumble strip and the engine volume decreses, come off the strip and the engine volume increases :dopey:
 
Spiderman_Geek
Yup. You gotta think, that in the Ferrari, the engine is behind you. Add to that the fact that you are travelling at pretty fast speeds, the sound of the engine is not going to get ahead of the car.

You'd also expect that an expensive car like the 458 would have decent cabin insulation/noise reduction in real life.

It seems pretty accurate to me.
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To stay ahead of the engine noise in a 458 it would have to travel at 763MPH. and yes i'm sure the 458 does have decent sound insulation. the point was that a lot of the cars in the game dont sound like they should. some sound amazing and others just dont cut the mustard. For anyone who has done speeds in excess of 100mph they will tell you yes wind noise increases but in my exp 9 times in 10 you'll still be able to hear your engine! Especially if your giving it the Berries!
 
The audio is really strange in this game. Sometimes it sounds good and other times terrible. For some reason, when you add in a racing transmission, it adds a VERY loud high pitched whine to the interior view. :dunce:
 
CAMAROBOY69
The audio is really strange in this game. Sometimes it sounds good and other times terrible. For some reason, when you add in a racing transmission, it adds a VERY loud high pitched whine to the interior view. :dunce:
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That's straight-cut non-syncro gears for you. ;)
 
I had some cars that sound pretty good (the 370z especially with exhaust mods for example) and others that sound absolutely ridicolous ( the stingray corvette sounds like a 4-cylinder with and without exhaust mods).

The same goes for car textures of standart cars. Some are pretty nice, you have a hard time to distinguish them from premiums when you see them on the track.

Others (I think of a prize car, ao 90´s nissan micra iirc) are absolutely horrible. Pixelated, low res, seems like they were copied from gt3 even.

GT seems to be very inconsistent in these areas. Also I have seen a car (it was a 78 or 79 prototype, I think Mazda looks like a mixture between a stratos and a countach) that had neon green lines in the texture that clearly weren´t suppposed to be there.

It seems like they didn´t have enough time to check all the cars, and some wen´t in without any work being done whatsoever.

Let´s see what GT6 will bring, any news of a release date? :scared: jk
 
Killa Aaron
1000 Watt 5.1 Surround Sound with Dynamic Range Control here = awesome loud engine sounds.
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I have the same on Small Home Theatre and although the engines are loud, my engine is not louder than theirs. Have you got it on large theatre - is that any better? I could increase the volume of my centre channel but I don't want to have to keep changing it.
 
TheCracker
I've found engine volume to be quite inconsistent. It's mostly when you are amongst a pack of cars. The volume of your car decreases and the cars around you get louder, yet when you pull clear your own volume increases again. This is when using bumper cam, i've not used the other views enough to see if its the same across the board.
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exactly, I wondered about this effect also.
I also use only "bumper" cam.
 
Miths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgy9vc4rf90

Transmission whine insanity :). BMW M3 GTR.
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Nice, so the sounds ingame are quite real.
I was wondering why the chromeline M3 has such a pronounced whine ingame.
Later I installed a full race transmission in an old Dodge Challenger. That car has the nice muscle car rumble but after the transmission it sounds like and electric car or powered by a turbine :). Very strange.
 
Just for clearification I have a 6.1 surround sound and out of all the racing games I have played, GT5 does not sound right at all. Even sitting in the Nascar sounds like some sort of electronic car. I can go directly from this game to another and hear a huge difference in the audio. The only way it sounds decent is from the roof cam and I hate that view.
 
i use 2 satellite speakers, 1 subwoofer from JBL. I love the engine sounds, i especially LOVE the Hood cam view and i can hear my RB26 roar through the tarmac.. shes only 459bhp, and im going to keep her as that.

Behind car view is good if u like to hear your muffler sound :P

I use bumper view so i hear a quieter sound of the engine, but its still there
 
With my 6.1 (but thanks to running audio over fiber it's 5.1) system, having the audio option set to Small or Large Theater made the engine sounds absolutely scream, to the point that I couldn't hear my BGM at all. Going back to Living Room brought the engine sounds back down and the BGM up.

That said, I completely agree that each view has a different sound, which to a point it should (interior should be more muted than chase cam, for example) but there is too much difference between them all.
 
I want chase view engine sounds in non-cockpit/bumper cam view

problem I find on a 7.1 system is that when using bumper cam, you have to turn system up quite loud to hear engine quite loud, but then you hit a barrier or hit another car, and its about 10x louder than the engine sound.

maybe realistic (but I doubt it) - but doesn't make for a good game feature

re the front engined cars, surely they should be VERY loud from bumper cam ???
 
I really wish they would have included some additional volume controls. My biggest issue sound wise is that sometimes in trafiic I can not hear the engine in my car over those around me. Would be nice to crank the volume down on opponents cars and up on my own a bit.

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That and the constant whine of the race tranny. would be nice to have a way to cut that back a bit.
 
For anyone that has a 5.1 HT system, the bulk of the engine sounds come from the surround speakers. This is especially true of the muscle cars. If you want ridiculously loud engine sounds, independently increase the volume of the surround left/right channels using your HT receiver/amp.
 
I agree. I've got a surround sound setup with my game system. I usually listen to the car's motor to know when I should shift a manual transmission but I can't even hear the engine. I put it back to auto. 👎
 

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