GT5 Sound Thread

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Regarding the Type R Civic, has anyone noticed that it has a really weird boomy noise that sounds out of place with the idle / revs? Like when you're screaming it along it will have this other loud noise accompany it on and off, bah its hard to explain I'll have to record it
 
The way the sounds work is weird. They sound perfect till the car gets to 4500rpm.
The 2007 Mustang GT with Race Exhaust burbles nicely at idle. but doesn't roar at high rpm.
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btw. with the supercharger on the Mustang GT there is no whine.
I want Roush parts. but oh well. can't have everything.

When PD samples the cars' engine sounds, they aren't usually allowed to go over a certain RPM. They start at the closest (probably around what you said, maybe 4K RPM), and then increase the pitch with a few other minor adjustments.
 
When PD samples the cars' engine sounds, they aren't usually allowed to go over a certain RPM. They start at the closest (probably around what you said, maybe 4K RPM), and then increase the pitch with a few other minor adjustments.
Explains why the Gran Turismo S sounds like someone forgot to push the Sport button.
In the real world it just roars till it reaches the end of the world. :drool:
 
Anyone heard the LFA yet?

Journalist: Did you have to invent something to create character in the game?

Kazunori Yamauchi: The most important thing is to recreate the car as accurately as possible. We don't do anything in addition to what the manufacturers do. For example, the Lexus LFA was a car where the engineers had a really exact idea of how they wanted it to sound. There's a very specific mechanism for producing that, that transmits the sounds from the engine into the cockpit.

If you look at the waveform graph of the sound coming from the engine, you can really tell that a certain frequency is very pronounced in the design. The frequencies are about five times the engine RPM. Those ranges are extremely pronounced in the sound design for the car and we've recreated that accurately within Gran Turismo

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-25-kazunori-yamauchi-interview-interview?page=2

edit - found a vid, but not the best of qulaity
 
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Now I don't have the game yet (still waiting in the mail), but based on what I've seen lately as far as most of the complaints or criticisms...most of them have been based on the cars that have been tuned or have different exhausts on them....where before the game came out, most people were complaining about the stock sounds of the cars.

Now sure, it would've been great if PD had better sounds for the aftermarket exhausts...but unfortunately this has been something that hasn't been that great or very hit or miss throughout the series.

In my opinion, based on what I've seen in videos for STOCK exhausts, most of the cars seem to sound pretty damn good. Sure there are certain cars (Veyron, Masterati) that for whatever reason don't sound that close....but I don't think it can be denied that the sounds are the best in the series. I just feel that the issue is being blown out of proportion a little bit for how "bad" the sounds are. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, i understand that, but c'mon, really? They can't be that bad as a whole.
 
I got sick of my mo-ped sounding Mustang GT today and decided to try the '71 Mach 1 out and holy crap I'm glad I did - it sounds fantastic, and the best part is the exhausts actually make it sound even better! I wish I had a camera to show you guys. It really sounds great. My only complaint is you can't hear the supercharger on this 'stang either, but the race trans screams well enough to fill out the high end. I'm just hoping that the engine upgrades that raise the redline don't turn it into a mo-ped like the '07 GT.

My opinion of GT5's audio went from 3/10 to 7/10, losing points for major consistency issues('07 GT is horrid upgraded) .
 
I got sick of my mo-ped sounding Mustang GT today and decided to try the '71 Mach 1 out and holy crap I'm glad I did - it sounds fantastic, and the best part is the exhausts actually make it sound even better! I wish I had a camera to show you guys. It really sounds great. My only complaint is you can't hear the supercharger on this 'stang either, but the race trans screams well enough to fill out the high end. I'm just hoping that the engine upgrades that raise the redline don't turn it into a mo-ped like the '07 GT.

My opinion of GT5's audio went from 3/10 to 7/10, losing points for major consistency issues('07 GT is horrid upgraded) .

I think that's what I'll be doing. the 2007 Mustang sounds like a very cold V6.
PD should try finding people who like to run their cars on the limit.
 
quick question

i heard one of the main menu songs & it sounded like i heard it before from an other GT game, think it was The Motorious Zone but it was remixed
 
my supercharged sls stealth model with 795 bhp sounds like a beast. Nice whine with a roar as well will post a video later!!
 
90% of the sound complaints seem to be centered around vehicles like the Mustang, or other similar V8 muscle cars (Veyron/Enzo aside)..

This is great news for me, personally...

Words cannot describe how far I would go to never have to drive a Mustang again (owned a '65 Fastback, and a 2009 GT.... very briefly with the 2009). As drivers cars, they're terrible. They handle like bricks riding on marshmallows... The '65 sounded decent, but my 2009 sounded like a tractor, in my opinion.

Thus, I'm not exactly enthused to drive them in GT.

It seems most of the sub-par sounds in the game are coming from vehicles I'm not very interested in anyways (Veyron?..... No).




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Do any of the sounds seem like they have a buzzing noise to anyone? Maybe its just my tv (small 15" :( ) but a lot of cars (especially the nascar) seem like in almost all rpms there is a buzzing or crackling sound. The sound quality sounds poor to me. Also when I put a stage 3 motor with race exhaust on my corvette z06, it sounds like a roatary!
 
It's not end of the world if you put a titanium exhaust in your V8 car and its sound changed to a 4 cylinder .. try other options .. here's my story

I decided to buy C5 Z06 instead of C6 since I already played with it in Prologue. Corvette C5 Z06 is the first car that I bought with my credit .. anyway so I decided to change the car sound .. so I bought the 1,500Cr exhaust .. guess what? It sounded like the tuned Corvette in Prologue .. I didn't like it so I switched to Titanium Racing exhaust and I heard that bloody M5 sound from GT4 .. I was very disappointed .. I had only one option left.. so I chose semi-titanium ... and BLAST! I found the right sound! Seriously, it sounded very similar to FM3 Corvette C6 Z06 .. even better .. really.

Oh, and RUF RGT sounds nice .. Enzo sounds like a 4 cyl with a custom exhaust.. not sure which one .. but I heard it through a replay.

So what I found out that some cars sound nice and some don't .. the odd ones .. Don't be mistaken with Standard Cars .. A lot of them sound very nice .. like the Zonda C12 ... it has a V12 AMG growl!

You know what? PD should give us an option to play with the sounds with many settings (Frequencies or w/e they're called) rather than switching the audio mode and claiming the sound becomes better ..
 
Do any of the sounds seem like they have a buzzing noise to anyone? Maybe its just my tv (small 15" :( ) but a lot of cars (especially the nascar) seem like in almost all rpms there is a buzzing or crackling sound. The sound quality sounds poor to me...

Ok stop right there....

You cant complain about the sounds if your hearing them through stereo 2 inch TV narrow frequency range cruddy speakers, i don't care if you have the most expensive 15 inch TV, TV speakers are CRAP, period. They operate in a TINY area of the sound spectrum, mainly optimized for the human voice, hence no bass at all.

If you are ona budget, check out the Logitech surround systems, you can get the basic model which is a 5.1 for about 89$ American.

Then you'll have a sub and 5(yes FIVE!) dual cone speakers.

Then you can tell me everything sounds buzzy, its not the game its those TV SPEAKERS that cant handle the volume let alone the complexity and dynamic range of those sounds. Yeeesh.👍

Picture it like this, you know when your Ipod\phone earphones break(as they often do cuz they are wired like crap) and you have to use generic black earphones, thats only a small example of the difference between TV speakers and a proper 5.1.
 
It's not end of the world if you put a titanium exhaust in your V8 car and its sound changed to a 4 cylinder .. try other options .. here's my story

I decided to buy C5 Z06 instead of C6 since I already played with it in Prologue. Corvette C5 Z06 is the first car that I bought with my credit .. anyway so I decided to change the car sound .. so I bought the 1,500Cr exhaust .. guess what? It sounded like the tuned Corvette in Prologue .. I didn't like it so I switched to Titanium Racing exhaust and I heard that bloody M5 sound from GT4 .. I was very disappointed .. I had only one option left.. so I chose semi-titanium ... and BLAST! I found the right sound! Seriously, it sounded very similar to FM3 Corvette C6 Z06 .. even better .. really.

Oh, and RUF RGT sounds nice .. Enzo sounds like a 4 cyl with a custom exhaust.. not sure which one .. but I heard it through a replay.

So what I found out that some cars sound nice and some don't .. the odd ones .. Don't be mistaken with Standard Cars .. A lot of them sound very nice .. like the Zonda C12 ... it has a V12 AMG growl!

You know what? PD should give us an option to play with the sounds with many settings (Frequencies or w/e they're called) rather than switching the audio mode and claiming the sound becomes better ..

indeed the Enzo sound does not even come close to the real deal. I tried all exhausts on my M5 and they all sound crap! , standard exhaust on M5 has the best sound , and comes very close to the real deal
 
Some cars have a bad pitch shifting artifact in the low revs - the SLS and M3 are 2 I heard that had it when I test drove on the course maker track


The Lexus IS-F had a nice sound upgrade from the Prologue version 👍
Sound exactly like in the PD vids and demo vids I posted before.
Quite like the real thing - wonder what it sounds like with with upgrades :)

And use the larger dynamic range sound options in the menu, much better ssntead of the squashed audio you get with living room setting.
This way loud cars really do sound loud vs a stock car
 
He, I really like the sound of my 207 GTI, have tuned it for the first Rallye events, 181 kW, sounds especially good from the outside. The overall sound is still far from perfect, but it's satisfying enough, especially because the cars finally have bass in their sound, which you notice extremely at standing starts.
 
Ok stop right there....

You cant complain about the sounds if your hearing them through stereo 2 inch TV narrow frequency range cruddy speakers, i don't care if you have the most expensive 15 inch TV, TV speakers are CRAP, period. They operate in a TINY area of the sound spectrum, mainly optimized for the human voice, hence no bass at all.

Forza, Shift and DIRT sound fine on TV speakers, and expensive equipment can't fix corvettes sounding like 6 cylinders in GT5... I know because I often wear a pair of $300 Sennheiser closed air headphones at night.

FYI, some of us live in duplexes or apartments with bitchy neighbors, it's not always an option.
 
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Buy it, race mod it and finish the exhaust system + mod the engine. Turn your sound up really, really high and watch a replay 👍
 
90% of the sound complaints seem to be centered around vehicles like the Mustang, or other similar V8 muscle cars (Veyron/Enzo aside)..

This is great news for me, personally...

Words cannot describe how far I would go to never have to drive a Mustang again (owned a '65 Fastback, and a 2009 GT.... very briefly with the 2009). As drivers cars, they're terrible. They handle like bricks riding on marshmallows... The '65 sounded decent, but my 2009 sounded like a tractor, in my opinion.

Thus, I'm not exactly enthused to drive them in GT.

It seems most of the sub-par sounds in the game are coming from vehicles I'm not very interested in anyways (Veyron?..... No).

Yeah, because an '11 5.0 gt is faster 'round a track than an M3, or a boss 302 can beat a V10 R8 around laguna seca, or the fr500c beat BMW/Ferrari/Porsche@ the Koni challenge for 3 years so bad they had to ballast it. Clearly it's a boat on wheels. lol... The world of motoring via Jeremy Clarkson != reality.
 
Those both sound phenomenal! :D I'll be picking up an LP-560 ASAP.

Can you do the Ford GT with a race exhaust?

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Does anyone else hear a really annoying flange/tube effect when under heavy acceleration with the 3rd person cam? I do and it drives me nuts! NFS undercover had it too and I hated it.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsvY8x3VvgM

That clearly sounds tractor-like, delphic. Did you ever try out the accelerator? It makes it sound better. I thought I'd heard it all from the haters, but tractor-like sound is definitely a new one.
 
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What a load of crap, Forza, Shift and DIRT sound fine on TV speakers, and expensive equipment can't fix corvettes sounding like 6 cylinders in GT5... I know because I often wear a pair of $300 Sennheiser closed air headphones at night.

FYI, some of us live in duplexes or apartments with bitchy neighbors, so come on down off that 5.1 high horse of yours, it's not always an option.

That's all well and good (although, your attitude is questionable), but he was talking about a specific sound problem "buzzing", which can very well be caused by very small cheap TV speakers, especially if it's an older somewhat worn out set.

He could have worded it a bit better. Nonetheless, your biting response was not warranted.

Yeah, because an '11 5.0 gt is faster 'round a track than an M3, or a boss 302 can beat a V10 R8 around laguna seca, or the fr500c beat BMW/Ferrari/Porsche@ the Koni challenge for 3 years so bad they had to ballast it. Clearly it's a boat on wheels. lol... The world of motoring via Jeremy Clarkson != reality.

I don't care how fast the 2011 GT is, or what a Boss 302 is capable of. It's irrelevant. The Mustangs I have owned did not handle or sound particularly pleasant despite being in very good knick. The handling issues are well documented in almost any review you can point at (in regards to my 2009), and of course older Muscle cars (like my '65) are well known for being good in a straight line, and not much else. The newer models might indeed be leaps and bounds over them, but most reviews I have seen still complain about the handling problems of most Mustangs in the lineup.

I just don't like them. No reason for you to get in a twist.

My experiences with "Stangs" have left me cold on the model. It doesn't help that I'm not terribly (nor have ever been) enthused by the aesthetics of any Mustang.

That clearly sounds tractor-like, delphic. Did you ever try out the accelerator? It makes it sound better.

I hear a lot of terrible music and wind noise, mostly.

However, My GT did sound half decent at really high RPM's, but at low rev's it sounded terrible. My friends V6 Stang (same year) was the opposite. I don't like the sound of Mustang V8's at anything other than extremely high rev's. Just not my cup of tea.

There was nothing about that 2009 that I liked. It was poorly put together (I bought it new), cheap interior, handling was shockingly bad...... I could go on.


On an unrelated note, I suggest you cool down and stop getting overly excited by every other post. Nobody is attacking you. Wild attitudes don't last long around here.



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Wild attitude? I gave my own opinion to you, and now you're giving me veneer-thinly veiled ban threats. If having a differing opinion from a mod means he will abuse his moderation powers and I "won't last" I'll hardly miss the place.

I really am not intimidated by moderators of obscure fan forums on power trips.

Take that however you want. If I can't log in tomorrow, it'll still just be saturday, my life will go on just fine. So do what you will. I won't even bother appealing the ban.

EDIT: Okay, yeah, I can see how my reponse to that other guy was dickish. I'll edit it.
-done. So if you unquote that it never happened. I doubt he read it.
EDIT2: 2005-2009 the mustang was crap around a track unless you paid the premium for the bullit. No arguments from me there. As far as 1960's tech went the '65 fastback was a fine handler in its era. The 2010+ has gotten nothing but praise for its handling, I have no idea what you read, I read motor-trend, road&track, both love it. MT did the M3 vs GT 5.0 showdown.
 
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I hate most of the sound fx in gt5 full stop but the most bizzare and hated sound of all
is that noise when you hit into another car ,directly rear end another car and it's just horrible ,that same sound is used when hitting the side of a car but a little lighter but also when hitting the barriers.

I really have soo many complaints about this game that i can't beleve they relased this to the public.
 
Wild attitude? I gave my own opinion to you, and now you're giving me veneer-thinly veiled ban threats. If having a differing opinion from a mod means he will abuse his moderation powers and I "won't last" I'll hardly miss the place.

I really am not intimidated by moderators of obscure fan forums on power trips.

Take that however you want. If I can't log in tomorrow, it'll still just be saturday, my life will go on just fine. So do what you will. I won't even bother appealing the ban.

EDIT: Okay, yeah, I can see how my reponse to that other guy was dickish. I'll edit it.

-done. So if you unquote that it never happened. I doubt he read it.

First you berate because I point out your attitude (which was clear in both posts), than turn around and agree you have an attitude...

Well, as long as you get there in the end.

As I said, drop the attitude (3 posts in a row now), or you will receive an infraction.

Trying to spin the argument so it sounds like you are getting reprimanded due to your opinion, is laughable.

Take that however you want. if you have anything else to say to me personally my PM box is open.

Moving on people...




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