[Frazer]

We see a lot of aircraft and terrain mods created by the community for LockOn, which is great. Though, I think the sounds in lockon stay behind. In my opinion, sounds make the sim for a big part and are at least as important as nice looking terrain or 3d model.

There are quite some limitations regarding the sound system of lockon but there is still room for improvement, also over previous sound mods.

I've created two ALPHA versions of the Su27 and F16 project.

LockOnSoundsProject_Su27_AV1
(Read the README please)
LockOnSoundsProject_F16_AV1

The idea is to create a sound mod for every aircraft, this may seem a bit odd but if you want the most realistic sounds possible within lockon, this is the only way to do it. The reason for this is easy, there are simply not enough sound files in lockon (multiple aircraft use the same sounds).

The following aircraft are planned for the first official release.
Su27 / Su33
Mig29
F15
F16
F18

To make this project work out as good as possible I need help from the community though. Every one of you has aviation videos on their hard drive and I need those, rare high quality ones without music or other environmental noises (like people chatting, blowing winds and so on).

If you have movies like that, please contact me by PM or email so that I can give you the FTP address for uploading.

Greatly appreciated.

[VireVolte_tigrou]

Can't help, but nice project !

All my wishes !

[shaggy]

Tested the SU-27 sound, One word!

A
M
A
Z
I
N
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!!!!!

[A.S]

ermm.....Falcon files?

[JaBoG32_Laud]

We used Frazers sounds at the LLTM-Live-Demos. We put the volume up and turned the bass close to max. The room was shaking!!! Great feeling, I can tell ya!!!

[Kuky]

I like some of the files very much (Gear, Flaps, Airbrake, Planewind and Su-27 engine sounds) Thanks very much!

[Glowing_Amraam]

Nice sounds!

[Frazer]

Thanks guys, I'm really glad you all like the sounds

Still though, the project is far from done. These sounds are not sampled from the best quality movies out there and I ran out of resources. Some sounds are only a "guess" in the right direction.

I'm really going to need movies like I subscribed in the first post. Please all, run though your movie collections and see if you find moments in them with good sound for 6 or more seconds.

The sounds (any aircraft type) i'm still looking for are:

FrontEngine: Howeling sound of approaching jets in the air, for as long as possible time. Jets making multiple turns during approach would be the best, even more if this happens in the mountains.

BackEngine: Recorded from jets on the ground with a certain distance. The sound should not overpower the microphone.

Flaps/AB/Gear/Canopy sounds: Recorded during maintenance or something, normally you will never really hear these sounds since the engine is too loud.

CockpitSystem sounds: Cockpit sounds when airborne, during cruise as well as slow flight (landing).

In special, I need F18 sounds (any situation), this jet makes very typical sounds and I haven't been able to find anything good yet.

NOTE: No music or environmental noises (like people chatting, blowing winds and so on).

PM or email me (lars.hofman@gmail.com) and I will provide a place to upload the movies.

Highly appreciated

[leandromarrone]

very nice Frazer! thanks, if i found something i tell you.

greets

Lean

[mvsgas]

Thank you for your work Frazer. I not sure how to help but I will try to find some sound files or something. I think it would be hard finding proper sounds since most are ether capture by the pilots mask mike, and not truly how you would hear them in the cockpit or by video cameras, and sound microphones are easily overpower by the 180+ decibels of a jet engine.
I wish a had at least a camera I could go to work and record some stuff. So many sound you guys do not get to hear from videos, little details, like hearing the fuel slosh around as the aircraft moves, Giros spinning, etc. Can not wait to hear the results of the final product.