Free CD with Vintage Engine Sounds attn GPL Soundpack Creators

This month's (September) "Motorsport" magazine comes with a free CD called "The Sounds of Goodwood" and it has some pretty good quality recordings of the engine sounds of the following vintage cars: 1. B-Type ERA 2. BRM V16 <-- Awesome sounding!!!! would love it in a GPL soundpack 3. Jaguar D-Type 4. Maserati 250F 5. Lotus 18 6. Ferrari 250GTO 7. Ferrari 512S <-- Also sounds awesome and would make a great GPL soundpack. The CD alone is worth the price of the magazine. I may try to play with some of the wave file editors and see if I can do it myself especially for the Ferrari sound, but I know there's some of you out there with alot more talent that make some great soundpacks and might be interested in these sounds, especially the BRM V16 and Ferrari. Seeyas on the track. --John (Joao) Silva

Caution... The sound of a racing engine......live on a cd or any source.....is one thing. The "sound" of the corresponding .wav file to make that engine sound be "recreated" in a racing sim (gpl, N3...doesn't matter) are two totally different things. You can't take the engine sounds off this referenced CD.....and put them directly into gpl or N3...or any sim. That just doesn't work! Tom Pabst

Thanks Tom, I've only played with the default GPL engine wav files in the past and those from some of the excellent soundpacks to reduce their volume so that it doesn't cover up the skidding sound so much, but yes I do understand that. This CD contains some good raw source material for those GPL hobbiests out there who are already familiar with the process of making the sounds usable in GPL. I was also hoping to play a bit with some of the snips of captured .wav files from parts of this CD to see if I could make it sound good in GPL, especially as a full time GPL Ferrari driver, I would love to be able to convert a snippet of the Ferrari 512 sound for use as my GPL Ferrari sound. Do you know of an existence of any HOWTO documents on converting these type of wave recordings into .wav file GPL can use? From my experience with picking and choosing different .wav files from some of the GPL soundpacks, I assume that the .wav snippet must sound good and be of steady frequency for the portion that it lasts so that GPL can loop it and apply whatever frequency shift or (doppler effect?) algorithms it does to make the one .wav sound work for the different revs of the one engine. I'll probably give it a go and see if I can produce anything worthwhile for the sound of my Red machine. Seeyas on the track. --John (Joao) Silva GPL Ferrari driver. Powerslide Racing Team - GMSS League F1 division. Rossi Razzi Racing Team - IGPLC League F2 division.

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>Caution... >The sound of a racing engine......live on a cd or any source.....is one thing. >The "sound" of the corresponding .wav file to make that engine sound be >"recreated" in a racing sim (gpl, N3...doesn't matter) are two totally different >things. You can't take the engine sounds off this referenced CD.....and put >them directly into gpl or N3...or any sim. That just doesn't work! >Tom Pabst

Hi John, I can tell from the car list that these sounds are from the CD included with the book "into the red" by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. All of my GPL sounds are developed from this source. Check my website if you want to give them a try. I've been using the Lotus18 sound for F2F3 but haven't posted it yet. In my opinion the "must haves" are the Weslake sound from the Mas 250F, and the Repco sound from the Ferrari GTO. regards, Patrick http://homepage.tinet.ie/~expatjen/patsound.htm

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>This month's (September) "Motorsport" magazine comes with a free CD >called "The Sounds of Goodwood" and it has some pretty good quality >recordings of the engine sounds of the following vintage cars: >1. B-Type ERA >2. BRM V16 <-- Awesome sounding!!!! would love it in a GPL soundpack >3. Jaguar D-Type >4. Maserati 250F >5. Lotus 18 >6. Ferrari 250GTO >7. Ferrari 512S <-- Also sounds awesome and would make a great GPL

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Ah, yes indeed it looks like it might be a version or extracts from the same CD, Nick is being interviewed and explains a bit of history about each car and then they play what it sounds like to hear the car go by and then what it sounds like in the***pit. I've use some of the wave files from your site before as I've tried many different .wav files from all the different soundpacks and I should have recognized these as the source ;-) big thanks for making all those available on your web site. Amazing how many nice cars Nick owns, he must have made a pretty penny as their drummer. I *looove* the sound of that V-12 in the Ferrari 512, I'm grabbing it from your website today and replacing my current Ferrari sound with it. Thanks again to you (and the other GPL soundpack creators) for making these sounds available for us, it really does add those final touches to making GPL thrilling to drive. Seeyas on the track. --John (Joao) Silva GPL Ferrari driver. Powerslide Racing Team - GMSS League F1 division. Rossi Razzi Racing Team - IGPLC League F2 division.

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>Hi John, >I can tell from the car list that these sounds are from the CD included with >the book "into the red" by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. All of my GPL >sounds are developed from this source. Check my website if you want to give >them a try. I've been using the Lotus18 sound for F2F3 but haven't posted >it yet. >In my opinion the "must haves" are the Weslake sound from the Mas 250F, and >the Repco sound from the Ferrari GTO. >regards, >Patrick >http://homepage.tinet.ie/~expatjen/patsound.htm [address restored]