[SD45T-2]

How do you reduce the volume of environmental sounds of a route without directly editing the WAV files?
I've been playing with the NAVS 567 engine sounds, and on some routes, they're badly drowned out by the enviromental sounds. (The NAVS environmental sounds fixes this for routes that use the default sounds, but some routes use custom sounds.)

As Erick Cantu mentioned in his NAVS sound update, and I've heard over the years, this is very, very wrong, as the noise of a train is the loudest thing in a scene.

I don't really fancy reducing the volume of the WAV sounds, because there's quite a few files to edit.

[vince]

Edit the SMS files.

regards,
vince

[ErickC]

Overwrite the route's SMS files with mine. There's no need to copy any audio clips because the SMS will look for any files missing from the route's sound folder in the main sound folder.

OR and MSTS do this with textures as well.

[R H Steele]

Like Vince said, I decrease the volume value found in the appropriate SMS file.--- in the route's sound folder. I can appreciate what you're saying... for instance in the Rollins Pass route the howling wolves sound like you've got a ravenous pack in the cab with you...very unrealistic.

How did these sound in MSTS??? I have no experience with that. In OR the environmental sounds created specifically for the route can sometimes be too loud.

[ErickC]

R H Steele, on 22 June 2021 - 10:14 AM, said:

Like Vince said, I decrease the volume value found in the appropriate SMS file.--- in the route's sound folder. I can appreciate what you're saying... for instance in the Rollins Pass route the howling wolves sound like you've got a ravenous pack in the cab with you...very unrealistic.

How did these sound in MSTS??? I have no experience with that. In OR the environmental sounds created specifically for the route can sometimes be too loud.

In MSTS we had a separate slider for environmental sounds, I usually turned it down to something like 25%.

[R H Steele]

ErickC, on 22 June 2021 - 01:57 PM, said:

In MSTS we had a separate slider for environmental sounds, I usually turned it down to something like 25%.

Ahhh, thanks Erick. Any reason why OR couldn't have some sound adjustment sliders for specific types of sound. Currently we have only three adjustments on the Options\Audio tab. I have "external sound heard internally" set to 40% which is still too loud in some cases.