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[Elizander]

Spiral, on 29 February 2012 - 08:52 PM, said:

I agree. It seems a bit petty to nitpick over, but it's just odd after you've heard "nominal" for years.

Well this is true. I was pretty much expecting nominal while watching it and I did go "Huh?" when I heard otherwise. Not because there was anything wrong with online (for normal people) but as you said, it just felt out of place after all those nominals in previous games.

For the record I'd probably drop a few $$$ for a nominal voice pack if it's not the default.

Alan Grant, on 29 February 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:

Ouch! I would have shot myself trying to clean that up, especially getting that music to go way. I recall some of the clips I had also had music playing in them, thankfully the nominal one wasn't one of those.

Well to be honest, I recognized the bulk of the background noise as bass so I just dropped a filter to remove that and it left some rather quiet clicks or some similar sound. It wasn't loud enough and it was drowned out by the background sound I added from the trailer clip which I just cut out from the start of the cockpit scene when the computer voice wasn't talking yet.

[Alan Grant]

The worst part for me, was trying not to sound so English [or British]. I failed in that regard.

Should have heard the other voices I tried, oh the pain. Even had a back and forth with myself [pilot] and myself [tech].

[Omigir]

Elizander, on 29 February 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:

I only found one Youtube clip with the voice (was too tired to search the rest though) and it didn't have the whole startup. The voice was mostly giving planetary info and just happened to end with "All systems nominal" which I cut out, cleaned a little and swapped out with the trailer voice while trying to maintain the background sound.

It would have been hard replacing the whole thing because of the switch flipping sounds that I'd have to cut out and include with the rest of the speech.

You did good man *pats you on the back* No one is denying that XD

[Frost Cobra]

Love the "All systems nominal," line. Did my old heart good to hear that, which was needed sorely since the pumper went into overdrive after hearing "All systems online." Excellent job of merging everything together.