afterburner extremely loud, cant control the volume

[Hammer1-1]

During a training mission, I noticed that I cant adjust the afterburner sound no matter what I do. I physically have to dial down my volume knob on my computer speakers in order to quiet them up. I dont have any afterburner tickboxes marked in the audio settings tab and I can slide all the volume knobs off and still hear afterburner.

[Grundar]

Do you have the "hear like in helmet option" ticked in the DCS settings ?

[Hammer1-1]

Tried both, but normally have it defaulted on.

[Grundar]

I'll jump on and give it a burl and see if i get the same issues.  Will report back.

 

Edit: So my current settings - Volume at 70%, everything else at 100%, I have the Main Audio Out set to Default, Speaker Lay out to Auto and Headphones to Default.  I'm using a basic set of desk speakers with a floor subwoofer.

At these default settings the cockpit noise is comparable with the afterburner noise, one doesn't override the other in any particular fashion. The F4 by default is a noisy bird when in flight.

• "Hear like in helmet" enabled, there is no difference between loud cockpit afterburner being on or off.
• With "hear like in helmet" deactivated the afterburner is considerably louder, and mildly louder again with loud cockpit afterburner also being enabled.
• If I set master volume to 0% there is no audio from anything
• If i leave Audio at 70% and drop everything else to 0% I hear nothing.
• Moving the In Cockpit sound to 0% and leaving everything else at maximum turns everything off sound wise.

Now in comparison;

• The F4 is significantly more noisy, even with hear like in helmet enabled in comparison to other afterburning aircraft.
• The F-14 is second most noisy, but noticeably more quite than that F4 is.
• The F16 is quite, even in afterburner.
• The F18 is seemingly the most quite in afterburner.

So in summary, there is no one option slider (that I can find) that effects afterburner noise without influencing all other noise. The F4 is a very noisy aircraft, at a guess I would say it's because of the janky J-79's powering it and the technology of the time.

 

 

Edited July 30, 2024 by Grundar

[Hammer1-1]

On 7/30/2024 at 3:42 AM, Grundar said:

I'll jump on and give it a burl and see if i get the same issues.  Will report back.

 

Edit: So my current settings - Volume at 70%, everything else at 100%, I have the Main Audio Out set to Default, Speaker Lay out to Auto and Headphones to Default.  I'm using a basic set of desk speakers with a floor subwoofer.

At these default settings the cockpit noise is comparable with the afterburner noise, one doesn't override the other in any particular fashion. The F4 by default is a noisy bird when in flight.

• "Hear like in helmet" enabled, there is no difference between loud cockpit afterburner being on or off.
• With "hear like in helmet" deactivated the afterburner is considerably louder, and mildly louder again with loud cockpit afterburner also being enabled.
• If I set master volume to 0% there is no audio from anything
• If i leave Audio at 70% and drop everything else to 0% I hear nothing.
• Moving the In Cockpit sound to 0% and leaving everything else at maximum turns everything off sound wise.

Now in comparison;

• The F4 is significantly more noisy, even with hear like in helmet enabled in comparison to other afterburning aircraft.
• The F-14 is second most noisy, but noticeably more quite than that F4 is.
• The F16 is quite, even in afterburner.
• The F18 is seemingly the most quite in afterburner.

So in summary, there is no one option slider (that I can find) that effects afterburner noise without influencing all other noise. The F4 is a very noisy aircraft, at a guess I would say it's because of the janky J-79's powering it and the technology of the time.

 

 

 

That could be it, but I also tried muting everything and the afterburner still came over everything else. It has to be something in settings preventing control over this audio file. Sorry for the late reply, its been busy and Ive forgotten about this thread. It still occurs.

Edited September 9, 2024 by Hammer1-1

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

I think the issue is that DCS-level options such as “loud afterburner” and “switch volume” don’t work for Heatblur modules.

It likely has to do with the fact that HB pioneered those sounds within DCS, but I for one asked several times already for HB to connect their modules to those sound sliders - to no avail yet apparently

 

I even made a general wish list post for more sound level consistency between the various DCS modules, but it seems lately things only got worse instead of better (case in point: the OH-58)…

[Zabuzard]

The upcoming patch has a sound overhaul.
Please report back if the issues still persist after that, cheers.

FYI our sounds are connected to those sliders. Its just that DCS and its sound mixer is a bit complex in some situations. For example, if there is a single sound playing with a very high volume like 20 while everything else is set to 2, it will pretty much mute the other sounds.
The volume settings are all relative and influence each other dynamically in the mixer.

So its important that all sounds are carefully aligned with all other sounds within the module and also from DCS itself.
That process takes some time.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

Thanks for the clarification!