[kstoff]

I was getting background static/loss of quality in many of the engine sounds, and serious popping and crackling in others. In addition, levels were weird with guns sounding quiet in comparison to engines.

In UI1.1 there were two engine sounds which i really hated

- the Jumo samples, used for example on the Ta152 and (not engine of course - sound only) on the Me410;

- Sabre used on Tempest.

They were way too loud, Sabre too pitched to work with it for longer than a few minutes. The Jumo was also very unpleasant to hear, very low 'hummm' which caused sound distortions (like EAX bug, but the EAX was off...).

So I opened the Sabre samples in Nero Wav Editor and lowered the volume level by some 10-15 dB (it's really a lot), which helped somewhat. This way didn't help much in Jumo, so I replaced it by Daimler-Benz samples. And I was very pleased with it.

NOW, IN UI1.2 the list of VERY UNPLEASANT sounds is much wider

Few examples: B-29 (R-3350), Ponies, Jug (R-2800), Spitfire XIV (Griffon), Go-229.

ALSO the sound of MK108 is way more silent than a MG151/20, I didn't check other weapons sounds, beacuse I had to revert to UI1.1 - saving my ears :evil:

The best solution to all those sound circumstances would be offering the user an option to choose between stock 4.08 and modded sounds, like a switcher 4.08 -> MOD 4.09 we have now.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us an opprtunity to decide what sounds we want to use...