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[WANTED] Soldiers and civilians death sounds needed.

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Zenerka:
The code is done - all our actors (aliens, civilians, humans) can produce sounds after being killed. While thanks to your contributions we have pack of the alien death sounds to check and enable usage, we definitely do not have any humans death sounds.
If you are going to contribute, check
team_humans.ufo and team_civilians.ufo actor definitions. Currently you see there a lot of definitions with single soundfile called misc/newmission.wav. I put them there just because we don't have real death sounds for such actors.
Three things:
1) as you see in these scriptfiles, we can use different sounds for males and females
2) every actor type (german female or american male, etc) can have more than one sound definition - in this case these will be randomly picked
3) If you are going to contribute, please do not give us pack with many files to check - just post there a link to the sound with comment like "death sound for german female definition" or something like that.

Thanks in advance for your contributions!

PS You most probably noticed "hurtsound" definitions in scriptfiles; don't bother - the code about hurtsounds is not finished yet.

qubodup:
Hey, I made some recordings quite a while ago. *Very* bad recording quality.

http://ufoai.ninex.info/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1527.0;attach=95 - Four files, male death. I am mostly German, though born in Russia.

License: WTFPL :)

Please tell me what exactly you find bad about the tracks, as I am interested in recording and sound design and thus want to improve and like to know peoples' points of view.

Check the attachment (in case you didn't see..)

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Destructavator:
Question - Does it always matter what nation a person is from when it comes to grunts, cries, and screams (without words)?  It might be easier to just have two categories, male and female.  Otherwise, the chances of finding enough people who have the recording equipment, two from every nation (one for male and one for female, of a specific country of origin) would be rather difficult.  If a death cry doesn't have words, I'd think it would be pretty universal.

Destructavator:

--- Quote ---Hey, I made some recordings quite a while ago. *Very* bad recording quality.

http://ufoai.ninex.info/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1527.0;attach=95 - Four files, male death. I am mostly German, though born in Russia.

License: WTFPL Smiley

Please tell me what exactly you find bad about the tracks, as I am interested in recording and sound design and thus want to improve and like to know peoples' points of view.

Check the attachment (in case you didn't see..)
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I've done recording and sound editing for a long time - If you can tell me how you recorded these I could help you record better samples (not to imply that these are too terrible or anything).

- What kind of microphone do you use?  Dynamic and Condenser XLR mics are fairly common for general recording, although for human voice I'd recommend a Condenser for good quality, although almost all Condensers require phantom power supply.

- What software do you use to record with?

- What plugins and FX do you use?

It also sounds like (no offense) you may have had the mic too close when you recorded some of these, resulting in clipping - A common method of recording good vocal samples is to have some air between the mic and the mouth, and use a software or hardware compressor FX (Most people prefer to start with a 1:4 ratio on the compressor as a starting point, then adjust different parameters as needed.)  A lot of people commonly make the mistake of being too close to the mic, it's one of the most frequent mistakes.  (The only time a musician, for example, will "swallow" the mic is during a live performance, which is under very different conditions - when they record in the studio they usually do everything differently.)

BTW, if I've lost you or threw any terms at you you don't understand, let me know and I can elaborate, as well as give you links to free software that could help.

Also, the last one, 2007_04_05-07.wav actually doesn't sound too bad, I personally think it is usable.

qubodup:
Thanks for your offer, Destructavator! I was hoping to see you on the irc today. Anyways:
For recording the sounds of my post above, I used one of them cheap-as-air mics. You can see it stripped here. I used the default windows sound recording tool back then and I think I tried to create an effect as if I was speaking through a bad connection (I wanted to eliminate/make use of the terrible recording quality when using the software booster which makes mic recording more loud.)

http://nothingdoesntsuck.googlepages.com/uargh.tar.bz2

The recordings (9x male death, "uaarrgh") are made using an hp ipaq hx4100 with the software "Audio Recorder". I removed noise and cut in to pieces using Audacity.

Is the noise removal noticeable? I think these recordings are much better.

License again WTFPL, text included in archive. If you want to use these files, I'd be glad if you kept the license (even if it entitles you to change it to any other) because I think that using=spreading this license would make some people use it who otherwise would not use a license at all.

Tell me if I can make life easier for you with the sound files or future submissions (upload to wiki, svn using some standard archive format.. you name it)

I want to get a mobile sound recorder - I'd use it for voice recording too I'm sure. I was recommended the zoom h2 (200EUR) on pdsounds.org but first I'll find out if I can get away cheaper by building something myself.

Tell me what you think of the recordings.

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