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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. I opened up the sound settings from within Il-2 and turned down master volume and objects volume to somewhat less than half and turned up voices volume to max (I always have music off). I have to have my speakers at a higher volume level than normal, but all the distortion is gone and engine volume sounds more normal. 50 cals still sound weird to me, but that may be a specific bug as mentioned. I'm not enamored with all the sounds, but they certainly don't sound bad.

I have noticed the same thing. The problem is due to the sound files being saved in formats that the Il-2 game is not designed to use. It is a common issue among people who produce these sound mods. Few seem to understand the limitations and save their samples in any old format. The cracks, pops and shrieks are the tortured screams of a game engine designed to play 11000mhz mono sound samples, as it struggles to play large wav files saved in stereo, or audio frequencies way over it's maximum.

I dissagree , through out the time ive bin sound moddin , gettin pure sounds without background noise is paramount , which mostly comes from two areas , the first and most common is bad audio splices , the second is over volume when when finalising an audio edit which although im guilty of editin right up to the limit I try to keep to an absolute minimum , I used to release my sound mods with an mono and stereo option and 22 or 48 mhz as well , but after many years of playin and testin the 22mono theory out against the 48 stereo , I haven bin able to find any decernable differance in sound or game play , the.....we must go to mono scare mongering has been used many times in the past and is still is doin the rounds.
AS for my sounds and AAA they will go to a 22 mono as soon as im back up and running cos my boss here made that request of me to keep the punters happy but my site will also have the stereo option as well so ill do my best to look into the 1.2 probs when I get back......

Jafa.