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Music Normalized
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19 Jul, 2021 @ 12:24am
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The soundtrack to this game is great, but it's inconsistent. Some of the faction themes are much too quiet, and some of the tracks are much too loud. It was jarring going from the rhythmic, ambient cadence of the Ork theme to that ridiculous title track that blares mid-game. Lowering the volume slider only made the loud tracks even more obvious. Out of curiosity I ran the .oggs through Goldwave, and the peaks were all over the place.

This mod simply normalizes the volume of all the in-game music to the same level.

Every faction specific theme, every generic theme, and even the title menu have been brought to the same dB baseline. No tracks have been modified or manipulated in any way other than to volume-match them across the board.

This mod does not alter any XML tables, so it should be compatible with anything.
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PeopleLikeStuff 25 Mar, 2024 @ 8:54am 
Oh wait really? I didn't think to actually check the game files so hey thanks for the tip!
Kornstalx  [author] 21 Mar, 2024 @ 6:08pm 
Unfortunately I don't own some of the DLC so probably not, but if I get the new ones I'll be sure to do so.

Again, it's super easy to normalize the audio if you'd like to learn how to do it yourself. There's no weird file encryption and the music tracks are exposed in the game files. Just normalize them yourself where they sit in the game's directory, and you don't even need to make a mod.
Gorgo Primus 21 Mar, 2024 @ 4:51pm 
Do you have any plans to update this further?
Kornstalx  [author] 21 Mar, 2024 @ 5:11am 
If the DLC added new music, then yes. Mechanicus was the last DLC I'd updated for.

To be honest if you want to do this yourself it's easy. Goldwave, Audacity, MP3Gain -- any of these will allow normalization. The tracks are exposed in \Data\Audio\Sounds\Streamed\Music and not in some pak or container file.

IIRC I used Goldwave to convert the game's .oggs to 192kbps @ 44100hz .mp3 (because the original encoding wasn't uniform), then used MP3Gain to normalize them to 89.0 peak dB, then simply converted the container format back to .ogg.
PeopleLikeStuff 20 Mar, 2024 @ 8:37pm 
Guessing this is outdated given there's been more DLC and thus more music?
Gorgo Primus 1 Jul, 2022 @ 6:46pm 
Thanks for this. The music was destroying my ears because it was so much louder than anything else even at 15%.
Goblin 24 Jul, 2021 @ 4:31pm 
Brilliant. The kind of subtle mod that does more to improve a game than it seems.