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BC46 / freelancer-hd-edition

Freelancer: HD Edition is a mod that aims to improve every aspect of the game Freelancer (2003) while keeping the look and feel as close to vanilla as possible.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/freelancer-hd-edition
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Replace space, danger and battle music with remastered versions #224

Open erikroe opened 3 months ago

erikroe commented 3 months ago

Based on Freelancer's official Soundtrack release, those versions were created as a replacement for the already remade musics. The new versions offer better loops (albeit not perfect) and are less dynamic. This is to make sure players can hear the different instruments even in the heat of battle. Where usually a lot of frequencies disappear.

These remixes were made by Worldwave. Shared here with permission for HDE.

erikroe commented 2 months ago

I must be bad at hearing, but I tried to find this sound at 10 seconds but just can't. The only rather "dominant" sound I can identify is at 0:32, but honestly never felt buggered by it.

BC46 commented 2 months ago

I did some equalization editing to make the high frequency sounds more audible. Now it should be easy to hear: Omicron_beta_battle_screech2.zip.

erikroe commented 2 months ago

Now I can hear it in the original track too, yes. Still, even now, I don't find it annoying at all and I cannot recall anyone has ever mentioned this to be something that's noticed.

BC46 commented 2 months ago

I first noticed it when I was recording my playthrough for YouTube while in battle in the Omicrons. To me that screech is rather loud and very out of place as I don't find it a pleasant sound at all. In the original heavily-compressed soundtracks from FL I can't hear it, therefore I removed it from the remastered OST.