Please increase the distinct "wokka wokka" sound volume (the Hook deserves to be heard from a distance)

[sirrah]

I wonder if anyone here agrees with me (I even considered posting this as a bug)

 

The beautiful low pitch sound of the flapping Chinook blades is already implemented (you can somewhat hear it if you zoom out far enough). In my opinion, it needs to be quite a lot louder though.

In real life you can hear/feel this sound loudly from a very long distance and it's so distinct, that even the untrained ear can hear that a Chinook is approaching.

When it gets closer, the high pitch turbine sound level eventually exceeds the low pitch sound of the blades slapping through the air and this is currently implemented quite well. Though from my experience seeing/hearing our Dutch Chinooks, I just think the distant "wokka wokka" sound needs to be louder.

 

(simply turning up the main volume wouldn't be the same, as then the turbine and in cockpit sound would become deafening. I'm trying to say; either the turbine sound volume needs to be decreased, or the distant "wokka wokka" volume needs to be increased)

Edited August 12, 2024 by sirrah
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[Slippa]

I agree.

I’m pretty impressed with the sound modelling usually and was looking forward to hearing the Chinook. It’s still Early Access but for now, It’s lacking something. The power? Certainly the volume. It’s good but as you say, nothing sounds like a Chinook but a Chinook and it’s distinctive the minute you can hear it. Hope they can give it some welly as it goes on.

 

[Gambit21]

It's technically "Whoppa Whoppa" just FYI.

 

[Ramstein]

14 hours ago, Slippa said:

I agree.

I’m pretty impressed with the sound modelling usually and was looking forward to hearing the Chinook. It’s still Early Access but for now, It’s lacking something. The power? Certainly the volume. It’s good but as you say, nothing sounds like a Chinook but a Chinook and it’s distinctive the minute you can hear it. Hope they can give it some welly as it goes on.

 

I too am very impressed with the sounds of the Chinook. But I am getting older and do not want a buttkicker sound. I think they are nailing this aircraft. I imagine they wil polish it and really blow us away!

[sirrah]

38 minutes ago, Ramstein said:

I too am very impressed with the sounds of the Chinook. But I am getting older and do not want a buttkicker sound. I think they are nailing this aircraft. I imagine they wil polish it and really blow us away!

I don't necessarily want the "wokka wokka" (or "whoppa whoppa" ) volume to be louder, I'd like it to be more in proportion with the super loud turbine sound.

Right now one can hardly hear the wokka wokka sound, but the turbines are super loud.

Edited August 13, 2024 by sirrah

[47_Driver]

You're not hearing the turbines, you're hearing a 700lb transmission right above your head it's extremely loud and the sounds are damn near perfect. If we had the ability to FEEL the blade slap, that would be another story. There's nothing quite like it.

[Slippa]

57 minutes ago, Brickle said:

the sounds are damn near perfect.

I’ll take your word for it, you being a pilot n all  but… to me, just as someone that’s seen and heard them a few times from the ground, ours doesn’t seem to sound as chunky as it should. I dunno? It’s hard for me to pin it exactly, it’s not that I think the volume needs turning up but that it doesn’t seem to have volume, or enough substance? Like it’s a bit ‘Chinny-Lite’?

Never having been inside one I can only imagine what it must sound like running, pretty bleedin noisy probably .

[Ramstein]

47 minutes ago, Slippa said:

I’ll take your word for it, you being a pilot n all  but… to me, just as someone that’s seen and heard them a few times from the ground, ours doesn’t seem to sound as chunky as it should. I dunno? It’s hard for me to pin it exactly, it’s not that I think the volume needs turning up but that it doesn’t seem to have volume, or enough substance? Like it’s a bit ‘Chinny-Lite’?

Never having been inside one I can only imagine what it must sound like running, pretty bleedin noisy probably .

i do give them alot of credit for getting close.. I don't want it too harsh,, I am not into the heavy sounds,, too old and beat up.. they will probably either get it better of you can change your sound system... the  Doppler Effect also could be better, but I really don't need it that real... yes, there is always better but very difficult to match reality.. I flew on many helos... I don't want the harshness in the stage of my life..

[Slippa]

I’m too old for too much noise as well now. My clubbing weekenders are way behind me. I’m quite happy to have a bit of peace and quiet now too.

I don’t think they’ve done a bad job of the sounds either. I expected it to be a fair bit more noisy than the Huey is, maybe it’s my age and all the unnecessary hair growing in my earholes having an effect? There’s still work to be done on the Chinook so we’ll see what they come up with I s’pose. I’ll go give me ears a trim up as well. 

 

 

 

[cw4ogden]

I'm with @Brickle on the sound.  It's damn near perfect.  It was giving me big time hits of nostalgia.  If I turn on Bob and close my eyes, I can pretend I'm nodding off in the real thing.  
  

[sirrah]

Guys, let's not stray off topic here

 

I was talking about the external (and distant) sound. Albeit I realise now, I should have tried to make that more clear in my OP 

 

I definitely can't and won't argue about the internal sound. Never had the pleasure of flying one irl, so I wouldn't know.

 

What I do know, is the sound the Hook makes when you observe them flying over you, while standing on the ground. And imho, right now if you zoom out a few 100meters while in F2 view, DCS should notch up that volume a tad.

The distant thumpin' sound of the Hook deserves to be heard a bit louder in DCS, so that everyone in a MP server knows "ah! A Chinook is incoming"

[Andurula]

From a distance, you feel it as much as hear it.  Its a very low frequency rumble.

Best sound/feeling in the world when things are going bad and you just wanna go home.