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Originally Posted by AndyJWest
Just what proportion of mod 'in cockpit' sounds are based on actual in cockpit recordings? Though stock IL-2 sounds may be lacking authenticity, this doesn't make the mod sounds right. I'd say if new sounds are required, we'd need to start from scratch.
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YouTube is hardly a source for reliably copyright-free resources. And not exactly high quality either.
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I think the argument here is that sounds, of any sort, of actual wartime aircraft (inside & out) cannot be recreated in most cases. As a result any in-game sounds are just a best-guess. This is certainly true of mods but I think some also forget that this is true for the stock sounds as well. By this reasoning, both sounds sets are of equal (dubious) authenicity. However, one sounds set (the mods) sounds far more accurate as far as external sounds are concerned (this would be the easily recordable airshow sounds poo-pooed by an earlier poster). The modded internal sounds, in most cases, try to take the exterior sound and muffle/distort them as you would expect (guess) them to be in cockpit. The result is a varied and not unbelieveable (while not necessarily authentic) array of interior sounds that can enjoyed by all. The stock sounds, meanwhile, do not maintain particularily good fidelity to easily recordable exterior sounds and the interior sounds are generic and boring between the many different types of aircraft we have in game. I think value would be added by incorporating modded sounds into stck IL-2.
As for Youtube, I agree that copyright is often trampled there as well. But there is a difference between ripping a sound out of another simming product (direct copying) and listening to a Youtube sample (copyrighted or not) and trying to make your own synthesized sound (created in Goldwave or whatever) match what you hear as closely as possible. I would say that the latter would be admissible.
Cheers,
Fafnir_6
P.S. Awesome discussion we are having here, thanks to all posters
