ooo - anyone good at clearing muffled sound up ?

[D33]

hmm, just playing Half-Life SP again after completing BS SP ( tried Op4 SP but after I installed Steam it won't install ;( ).

When you first get into your area you see the G-Man arguing/talking with a scientist. You hear them but it's muffled.. I tried turning the sound up and it's certainly words but I can't make them out.

Anyone know of a person or some software that could clear the sound up? Or if someone's already talked about this ?

 

[LoneDeranger]

I remember somebody decoded it fairly accurately a while ago. Can't find the thread now though.

 

[Feath]

It's already been discussed?

/me flames D33.

Actually, being serious, I've always wondered about this. They're probably talking about their shopping lists though.

"No, I said to get hot dogs, not dog biscuits! We don't even have a dog!"

 

[TripleDES]

A multiband compressor could do the job.

 

[Feath]

Originally posted by TripleDES
A multiband compressor could do the job.

Do you have a multiband compressor?

 

[Mackan]

yeah this has been talked about quite alot
you can unpack the .pak files and find those .wav files

 

[Feath]

Originally posted by Mackan
yeah this has been talked about quite alot
you can unpack the .pak files and find those .wav files

I've already done that, but the wav files themselves are muffled.

 

[simmo]

hmmm...never thought about that.

Anyway...isnt the sound ment to be muffled ?, because it sounds like he isnt talking at all

 

[Mackan]

yes offcourse the wavfiles are muffled.. but its a bit easier listening to them in a wav-file then ingame dont you think?

 

[LoneDeranger]

Ahh, here we go (thanks to CyrusIV)

1: We cannot let the system collapse.
2: Impossible to figure out (les-nok lor-ah va-va-va-va? (That is what I heard…))
3: I want you to give me an answer you won’t regret.
4: If I had one, do you think that I would detonate? (The nuke used in Op4, perhaps?)
5: Sound in background, bah. Will figure out eventually. (This sounds odd… but at first I thought it said, “I am glowing, just at the knees”… If you play it over and over again, it sounds like some freak-show song…)
6: You scientists can/earn applaud. –something-(Sounds like da-da...)

#5 actually I think he says "My employers don't agree to that"

 

[Guest]

How the hell did you figure that out?

 

[Marauder]

Turn your speakers up REALLY high and do your best to interpret it. The sound files in the .pak themselves are muffled, so no go there

 

[Agent4054]

You know, it could just be walla. I love that word. Walla. But yeah. you could try some EQing. just drop the LOs and up the HIs and MIDs

 

[D33]

makes about as much sense as Pod but cool none the less.

cheers

 

[TripleDES]

Originally posted by Feath
Do you have a multiband compressor?

These days each mediocre/pro sound editor has such a thing.

 

[TheOriginalEvil]

Duh, Just email gabe! =P j/p

 

[Nuclear_Gerber]

Come on people! make an effort!
btw, can someone upload the wav? i dont even know where to start searching for it

 

[simmo]

Originally posted by Nuclear_Gerber
Come on people! make an effort!
btw, can someone upload the wav? i dont even know where to start searching for it

Get it from your pak0.pak or sumin like that using pakscape

 

[nw909]

I played some mod before where they replaced that sound with you're momma jokes

 

[Agent4054]

Originally posted by TripleDES
These days each mediocre/pro sound editor has such a thing.

Yeah, c'mon! Everyones buying them. It's the new rage. Can't be hip if you don't have a multiband compressor. And if you want to be really hot, get a parametric eq.

 

[MaDMaXX]

don't think ya can tbh, they are muffled and saved as wav, if someone can find where and how it was decoded please say, but its not some you clean afaik

 

[Agent4054]

hmmm, shouldn't this post be in the music and sound forum?

 

[D33]

Well it's general half-life discussion, we're not trying to write song lyrics

 

[Agent4054]

Right, but that forum also encompasses sound editing.

MadMaxx: It is possible to clean, if not very tough. You just need the right tools and know how. I've had worse problems than muffled sounds in all the stuff i've ever worked with.

 

[piGfreeZer]

wow, impressive !
I'd never think that those sounds were "real" sentences actually... but this makes sense after all.
I've got CoolEditPro2 with a Parametric EQ, but I don't know how to use this correctly...

 

[MaDMaXX]

gah, i shuld know better, ill go and edit the sound and see what (for anyone thats interested, i did the maxsound pak and the new sounds in NS v2)

 

[DimitriPopov]

Originally posted by LoneDeranger
Ahh, here we go (thanks to CyrusIV)



#5 actually I think he says "My employers don't agree to that"

Thats awsome! I alwaysed like trying to listen to the things that go on in the background to figure out what really went on in HL1. Someone should really email gabe and confirm the conversation.. thnx to whoever decyphered that.

 

[MaDMaXX]

i've told you a hundred times, i am opposed to possible implications to arm(ed) something something
Gah, im tired and out of ideas, anyone else?

 

[D33]

Originally posted by Agent4054
Right, but that forum also encompasses sound editing.

That's an interesting point actually, should of thought of that, doh ;(

Ah well, kinda got the answer now so no point moving the thread - although the answer was somewhat.. fragmented ;(