GT5 improved bass for your face

[TheDabbinDave]

Slappa da bass

Have you HEARD the GT40? A standard, I should add. I think the cars only sound unrealistic when you tune them, usually. When the cars are stock, they usually sound pretty good, especially in the low RPM range.

Absolutely! Yes the majority of them sound good at low RPM, plenty of rumble. Which fades away when you speed up

The LFA is a great example of how crappy a car will sound after tuning. Add a tranny to it and all you hear is ghastly gear whine. Factory top speed is around 200mph. That won't happen in GT5 with a standard tranny and power plant.

Racing R246 on the Supercar Seasonal event made me feel extremely disappointed. Then fully modding it turns the car to garbage without an expert tune.

NASCAR The Game gives pretty consistent rumble. For just engines. In GT5, if I didn't have music on, I'd think something was wrong with my ButtKicker

 

[steve30x]

I have this on my 6.1 home theatre system http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/B2092A.aspx and the Corvette Zo6 , Mustang , Sting Ray , Lambourghini Murcielago , Lambourghini Gallardo and porsches I saw in the local Cannonball Run had tonnes more bass than the cars in GT5.

 

[spikeyhairdude]

I love the Marker Handbrake.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I love the Marker Handbrake.

Yup that cracks me up every time I see it. He should post a video on youtube of driving and using that thing.

 

[BWX]

Yamaha 700 watt 7.1 receiver via HDMI with 260 watt 10 in Subwoofer. Subwoofer can be crossed over at 40, 60, 80, 90, 110, 120, 160, or 200 Hz at the receiver. Can also set distance up to 20 feet and use normal or reversed polarity phase. Gain on Subwoofer channel from -10 to +10 db.

GT5 set to Large theater or Small theater makes a big difference to dynamic range as well.

That's all the bass adjustment I'll ever need, although a butt-kicker would be nice to hook up to my Sim-Seat sim rig.

With a good WELL TUNED system, GT5 sounds very good, people who think GT5 cars sound like vacuum cleaners are using sub-par sound equipment. Some cars sound amazing, some average, but all sound good.

 

[CSLACR]

It is better to use directly the PS3 analog audio output (through the AV connector. You will have to enable the multiple audio output setting on your PS3 for it to work together with HDMI video) instead of your TV's. You will have a better sound quality, but a lower signal which might need amplification (depending on your sound card).

Keep in mind that using a PC sound card with standard Windows drivers will induce some audio lag.

I get the loudest signal from anything I own, from my PS3 audio rca cables, makes my stereo louder at the same volume then IPODs, MP3 players of other types, cable box, anything, the sound quality straight out of the PS3 has been nothing short of excellent on my equipment, whether the old school box TV, new school 1080 TV with dolby digital 5.1, or my home stereo.
Just saying if anything I've experienced the opposite, maybe due in part to what I use, idk. (non-PC and nothing extremely expensive)

 

[S13DRIFTSPEC]

Glad I could help rottenatomy.

I did this so I could get some more bass but actually found out the really good thing is the equalizer. I hate the wine of the racing tranny on some cars its too overwhelming with a few clicks of the mouse its almost barely noticeable. I didnt notice any lag. But I guess its hard to playing this game. Maybe if I play a game with dialogue I'll notice it.

My Redimark is the stuff on toilet paper. Its all warped too and stuff too I accidentally stepped on it when i was gonna mount it. But I love it. I don't have a lot room so I can't make a place for an actual handbrake and lower the shifter. So yeah dont hate on my ghetto ways. Whatever works I guess. Sorry No videos tho.

 

[TheDabbinDave]

With a good WELL TUNED system, GT5 sounds very good, people who think GT5 cars sound like vacuum cleaners are using sub-par sound equipment. Some cars sound amazing, some average, but all sound good.

Yamaha RX-V2200 still has [some] cars that sound nowhere near like other games, let alone the real car.

If you think the NASCAR cars in GT5 sound real with your system, you've never heard a roaring 900hp V8 on TV or I'm real life.

 

[BWX]

Yeah I've heard NASCAR cars at Watkins Glen, less than 1 hour drive from my home. I can crank the volume when driving them and they sound great on my system. No vacuum cleaner sound and plenty of deep throaty bass. Of course there is always room for improvement, but they sound great from drivers seat.

 

[CSLACR]

More Mother:censored: Bass in your mother:censored: face* is perfect for the shuffle races


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I really laughed a lot after clicking the links. 👍

Anybody know the name of the song in the "shuffle"?
Yes, I want it.
Which one? All of them.

 

[Nokkien]

I really laughed a lot after clicking the links. 👍

Anybody know the name of the song in the "shuffle"?
Yes, I want it.
Which one? All of them.

Why not start with the best one:

http://www.filestube.com/search.html?q=Scantraxx%20Roots%20Headhunterz%20Vs%20Abject&select=All&sort=sd

Here's some bass for tah face: 👍



PS! PD please make THIS car (below) with THAT sound (above) on low revvvvssss (DLC?).

It has some ultra low revvs at 1:04



You can see the truck ingame here



and how to get it out on the road at 4:01, pause at 7:39 for a laugh

 

[rottenatomy]

Glad I could help rottenatomy.

I did this so I could get some more bass but actually found out the really good thing is the equalizer. I hate the wine of the racing tranny on some cars its too overwhelming with a few clicks of the mouse its almost barely noticeable. I didnt notice any lag. But I guess its hard to playing this game. Maybe if I play a game with dialogue I'll notice it.

My Redimark is the stuff on toilet paper. Its all warped too and stuff too I accidentally stepped on it when i was gonna mount it. But I love it. I don't have a lot room so I can't make a place for an actual handbrake and lower the shifter. So yeah dont hate on my ghetto ways. Whatever works I guess. Sorry No videos tho.[/QUOTEYou can "hide" the transmission sound a little by boosting the 512 hz frequencie a little bit.

 

[rottenatomy]

Glad I could help rottenatomy.

I did this so I could get some more bass but actually found out the really good thing is the equalizer. I hate the wine of the racing tranny on some cars its too overwhelming with a few clicks of the mouse its almost barely noticeable. I didnt notice any lag. But I guess its hard to playing this game. Maybe if I play a game with dialogue I'll notice it.

My Redimark is the stuff on toilet paper. Its all warped too and stuff too I accidentally stepped on it when i was gonna mount it. But I love it. I don't have a lot room so I can't make a place for an actual handbrake and lower the shifter. So yeah dont hate on my ghetto ways. Whatever works I guess. Sorry No videos tho.

You can "hide" the transmission sound a little by boosting the 512 hz frequencie a little bit.

 

[Nokkien]

Te eSPORTS SHOCK One Gaming Headset should do the trick if someone are looking for a good USB headset without robbing you:

http://www.gadgetreview.com/2011/09/tt-esports-shock-one-gaming-headset-review.html

DTS 5.1 Certified, which means that it’ll feel like you’re being bombarded with sound from every direction. Even though it’s only virtual 5.1, it sounds a lot better than most other virtual 5.1 headsets I’ve used, and almost as good as the Psyko Carbons.

the Tt eSPORTS SHOCK One Gaming Headset is a great headset if you’re looking for a USB headset. Even better is that the price is right at $100 which is the normal price point for “average” headsets – and the SHOCK One is well above average.

It’s big, it thumps (due to increased bass responsiveness), and it’s loud as hell. I literally can’t turn the audio on my PC past 11% or it’s too loud to put on my head. Even with the loudness of the normal sounds you’ll hear, voice chat still comes through loud and clear. The inclusion of a nice noise cancelling mic ensures that other people will be able to hear you good as well.

 

[Ya Pops]

@ Ya Pops: have you got DTS-decoding working on that setup? I've tried various drivers for my card, but they're all full of DRM measures that detect the DTS / Dolby bitstream and silence the input... I have plans to try a USB device instead.

Turns out I can't If I set the PS3 to output DTS or Dolby 5.1, I just get horrific digital noise through the speakers. Like a million crickets with a megaphone.

 

[Nokkien]

Turns out I can't If I set the PS3 to output DTS or Dolby 5.1, I just get horrific digital noise through the speakers. Like a million crickets with a megaphone.

DTS 5.1 Certified speakers?

 

[trk29]

I'm thinking of the new Playstation Headphones, wireless, 7.1 with a mic for $100.

 

[Ya Pops]

DTS 5.1 Certified speakers?

No, I'm running 2ch Speakers/Monitor headphones. PS3 optical > Xonar D2 > Amp/headphones.

 

[-Cheezman-]

DTS 5.1 Certified speakers?

There's no such thing. Neither DTS or Dolby certify consumer speakers. They develop technologies for sound processing. I think you are confused with THX.

Turns out I can't If I set the PS3 to output DTS or Dolby 5.1, I just get horrific digital noise through the speakers. Like a million crickets with a megaphone.

Are you down mixing from surround sound to stereo? Because the problem you describe is not uncommon when down mixing multiple channels to stereo.

 

[Ya Pops]

Yeah, I just figured the sound card could handle it. Specs/features here

What's stange is that I'm sure it worked fine in the beginning, then one day the 'crickets' started screaming so I ended up unchecking the boxes for DTS/DD on the PS3.
Scared the daylights out of me.. Nearly blew my headphones too.

I'm not trying to get surround over 2 channels or anything. I just figured (hoped) that as my soundcard can handle 7.1/24-bit/192khz/DD/DTS etc, it might be able to deliver it uncompressed (or full range, I dunno ) over 2 channels.

 

[Nokkien]

I'm thinking of the new Playstation Headphones, wireless, 7.1 with a mic for $100.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/27/new-official-wireless-stereo-headset-coming-for-ps3/

- fixed.

 

[FishHunters]

Very nice!

 

[Griffith500]

Turns out I can't If I set the PS3 to output DTS or Dolby 5.1, I just get horrific digital noise through the speakers. Like a million crickets with a megaphone.

No, no, that's a good sign! You just need a software decoder now, like AC3filter, and some way of routing the digital input to it - I'm not sure if it's "automatic". If not, have a play with GraphEdit.
My card (X-Fi) won't even give me the bitstream (that annoying digital noise is the encoded sound) because of DRM in the drivers, which no-one seems to want to help out with (presumably on pain of "death" by the vendor).

DTS is a surround format, sure, but it is transmitted over a 2 channel PCM stream, which is why you can hear it as noise in stereo. You can "listen in" and detect the "flags" that identify it as an encoded stream, which would usually be handled at the driver level - it's possible yours isn't doing this. AC3filter has this functionality, so it's not an issue, assuming you can get it to play ball; it may need to be explicitly passed the input somehow (i.e. GraphEdit).

It's interesting that it worked before - did you update drivers, new operating system etc.? I thought mine used to work, but I must have been dreaming...

 

[Ya Pops]

Interesting..

I hadn't changed any drivers or settings afaik...
Shouldn't the card just decode it, seeing as it has built in dts/dd decoding? Would this be an issue only found with games and not with, say a bluray?

If I had the optical out going to an AV amp, I wouldn't have this issue, so what gives with the card?
Your help is appreciated I'll have a look at graphedit when I get the chance.

 

[Griffith500]

Interesting..

I hadn't changed any drivers or settings afaik...
Shouldn't the card just decode it, seeing as it has built in dts/dd decoding? Would this be an issue only found with games and not with, say a bluray?

If I had the optical out going to an AV amp, I wouldn't have this issue, so what gives with the card?
Your help is appreciated I'll have a look at graphedit when I get the chance.

If it has built-in DTS decoding, you need only select it from the SPDIF input options via the settings software bundled with the driver installation. GraphEdit isn't necessary for that.

However, looking at the specs you linked to, it seems the card is limited to DTS Connect (as is mine) which is DTS encoding and sending via SPDIF out. Similarly for the Dolby, which are all encoding options, not decoding. Dolby Digital Live is a 5.1 encoding option, which my card came with, too. Although, strictly speaking, this is all software / driver-level stuff anyway and merely makes use of the SPDIF output on the hardware side.

Try AC3filter first, if no luck in converting the noise into actual audio, try forcing the input with GraphEdit. Trust me, you're quite lucky to get any input at all!
If it works, I may find myself swapping my current card; so you see it's not entirely selfless of me

 

[Ya Pops]

Ah, dts connect.. My mistake. I only got the card for hi-fi /headphone use, so I didn't pay much attention to the theatre stuff

I'll try your suggestions and get back to you tomorrow 👍

 

[Griffith500]

Ah, dts connect.. My mistake. I only got the card for hi-fi /headphone use, so I didn't pay much attention to the theatre stuff

I'll try your suggestions and get back to you tomorrow 👍

No worries; I saw the DTS / Dolby stuff on mine and didn't think twice, either... It's a common complaint.

I thought the digital / optical input would be flexible enough, and I wasn't expecting driver-level DRM!

 

[rottenatomy]

I'm thinking of the new Playstation Headphones, wireless, 7.1 with a mic for $100.

I'm gonna get this asap.

 

[Griffith500]

I'm gonna get this asap.

They're clearly stereo headphones, so I wonder if the USB thingy that they connect to is doing the "7.1"-ification or if it's the PS3 itself. But, and this irks me, where's the "point-one" - are they faking bass production? Why only seven "channels" when it's all virtual anyway? The sound sources in games are not restricted to emanating from only 5 directions, and this information could potentially be extracted from the proprietary audio "API" used for the PS3, in much the same way it has been on the PC for years. I understand that movies etc. are geared to "home-theatre"-type speaker sets, but I hope they realise that virtual surround can be so much better than these discrete systems in some aspects.

I wonder if they have selectable HRTFs, for instance, and what of the ambisonic games like Dirt 3?

 

[mykem]

Before I start I want to say I'm a bass junkie. Playing GT5 is addicting especially with a g25. I play late at night but my stereo system was getting me complaints from my neighbours (bass bro 👍) So I tried just playing it off the TV... eww ....Tried ear plugs from the stereo and although a little better I just couldnt do it.👎 .

I think you mean headphones instead of ear plug. Either way, the process you've came up is pretty good.

Personally, I'm getting good balance sound (with more than decent bass) coming from an in-ear headphone. Nothing fancy but one that comes with my (Classic) Apple iPod- yeah, the white headphone. It's a simple connection coming off the TV Audio Out via an RCA to Stereo mini adaptor. Surprisingly, despite coming out of the TV built in amp, the sound is quite loud. The trick, though, for good sound and great bass is to get an ear headphone that fits snugly into the opening of your ear canal. Of course there are better in-ear headphones out there but I'm cheap.

The worst headphones you can get for GT5 (in my opinion, of course) are ones with open back or any audiophile grade headphones geared more towards classical music. Of course there are exceptions- a Sennheiser HD650 for example has a deep and rich bass despite being open back. Personally, I would still stick, no pun intended, to in ear headphones: anything from Grado to Etymotics and if you have the money, JH Audio, where the ear piece is actually custom moulded for your ears.