HEV Charger HL+BM mix

General Development Black Mesa
#1

Hey guys! I’ve been messing around with the old and the new HEV charging sounds. I remastered the old 8-bit wav files from the original HL to sound ‘highdef’ and after a couple hours of tweaking around with the effects - here’s what I got. It’s not much, but lemme know what you think, and how I could improve it. :slight_smile:

-Buzz

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EDIT REPOST:

Thanks for the feedback guys! I bought Adobe Audition CC a week ago and I’ve been playing around with a lot of the BM files to learn my way around the program. Today, I finally finished a mix of the Health HEV charger. This one took much more work as I had to deEffer the ‘Hum’ out of the BM file. I opted to to keep the ‘hum’ from the original HL health recharger because… well I like it better lol :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyways, tell me what you think of these. I’m quite proud of the ‘health_okay.wav’ - it was incredibly hard to phase out the undertone hum, and even harder to get the original HL health charger to sound somewhat highdef.

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#2

I personally think it sounds really good!

#3

Nice job !

#4

Thanks for the feedback guys! I bought Adobe Audition CC a week ago and I’ve been playing around with a lot of the BM files to learn my way around the program. Today, I finally finished a mix of the Health HEV charger. This one took much more work as I had to deEffer the ‘Hum’ out of the BM file. I opted to to keep the ‘hum’ from the original HL health recharger because… well I like it better lol :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyways, tell me what you think of these. I’m quite proud of the ‘health_okay.wav’ - it was incredibly hard to phase out the undertone hum, and even harder to get the original HL health charger to sound somewhat highdef.

MEGA link

#5

Not sure if this is allowed, but… bump.

I do kinda want feedback on the new health charger mix. Lemme know what you think about it :slight_smile:

#6

For the ‘Suit Charge No’ I liked the two buzzes, but felt they could be moved closer to the two chirps that preceded them, and I disliked the final click that came at the end.
For the ‘Suit Charge Yes’ I liked the tonally shifting humming, but felt the accompanying buzz could be toned down a bit.

#7

It has potential, but personally I don’t like it. The charging sound is good, but it could really stand a reduction in volume in my opinion. I don’t think the charge declined sound is that good though; the double noise doesn’t really work well (or at least I don’t think so) and the click at the end just isn’t necessary. Maybe mix it in with the rest of the sound? Like I said, it seems like it could be good but it needs work.

#8

Well, keep in mind that I’m trying to mix the old sounds with the new. In the original HL (maybe this was only the PS2 version as that’s the only version I played until I bought my first PC in 2007) whenever you would try to charge your HEV suit on an empty charger - it would make that buzz twice. I believe, it was only supposed to do it once, however, since the sound file is so short - you would hold the button down long enough for it to play twice.

So the double buzz was me trying to replicate that. As for the click at the end - that’s the BM sound… the only sound. When you try to charge on an empty charging station - it clicks (probably replicating the sound of the shutter closing). Since I’m mixing old with new - I thought it appropriate to add that click. Otherwise - it’s just a moderately remastered version of the HL sound.

As for the replacement Health Charging station - I have to receive feedback on that. If someone could input - it would be greatly appriciated :slight_smile: Also - in all honesty. I’d like there to be three sound clips for both the HEV charger, and the Health station. One for HEVcharge/Health Station beginning, one for you emptying the station - and another for an already used station that’s empty.

If someone could help me out with the scripting for that - I think I could do much better than this :wink:

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