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DC3 Deluxe Sounds

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
Earlier this evening, I was stretched out on my belly on the livingroom floor, using my wife's laptop to unpack some of Leon Louis's scenery and getting it put into a centralized scenery package, watching TV and being attacked by the KITTEN....he's huge...barely 5 months old and HUGE. On the boob tube, the movie Richy Rich...the one with the Home Alone kid....was on. In one scene, Richy Rich's parents were boarding what looked like a DC3...but it had a longer, more tapered nose....but the rest of the plane was DC3...maybe that is how a DC3 is supposed to look and not like the one in FS2004...never seen a real one. Well, anyhow, when they fired up that plane in the movie...pure music!

Came in to the office to install the unpacked Leon Louis scenery and to test some of it out. I selected the DC3 to use as my test plane. Fired it up....and it sounded nothing like the one in the movie. So, shut down the sim, fired up Audacity...and made the sim DC3 sound as close to the one in the movie as I could.

Stock internal sounds were replaced with the stock external sounds...no more whisper quiet cockpit. Then the external sounds were amplified and bassified. Much much better. Throatier, louder, deeper, richer.

I uploaded the pack to the CFS2 Sound library. Not sure when it will be available for downloading. Will be uploading to Flightsim.com as well.

OBIO
 
Don't know how the aircraft in this movie sounds like, but I'm privileged to see and hear a real C-47 above Berlin every now and then:
In my ears, the unbeatable rendition (up to now...) of the true Gooney sound was made by the people of MAAM-Sim! This is the way a Dakota sounds like.

But we have a saying here in Germany:
"Nothing is that good that it couldn't be made better!"

Looking foreward to your sound magic! :jump:

Cheers,
Markus.
 
I agree with you, Markus. Actually I have been a member now for 27 years of the Dutch Dakota Association. Have been on board many of 3 C-47A's of the DDA and 2 C-47B's of Air Atlantique (Pratt & Whitney R-1830 engines). The two remaining DDA C-47s fly over my flat quite often. The only conclusion I can draw is that the sound included with the MAAM-SIM R4D/DC-3 set is the best around. (Trev Morton has also done a darn good job).

Makes me curious to your approach to the R-1830 sound. Good luck. :ernae:

Cheers,
Maarten
 
Well, I guess for the three or four of us who don't have the MAAM Dakota, this sound pack will be an improvement.

OBIO
 
...I can personally testify to the internal LOUDNESS of a C-47. Took a 20 minute evening flight ($75.00) a few years back in a C-47 made up to look like 'Puff the Magic Dragon' used in Nam. It was a constant roar that bombarded you as a passenger. No wonder a lot of long term prop pilots loss most of their hearing in time. A case in point was Paul Tibbetts,....of Enola Gay fame. He was near deaf at the end of his life.
 
Thanks Tim (OBIO). Up at flightsim now.

With good company, too. Trev's work Has been around for a long while and is very nice as well. The two make a nice mix from one paint scheme to the next. (I have the MAAM pkg, too, so also utilize those in the DC3 mix)

FS2004 (ACOF) - FS2004 Sound CFS2/FS2004 Douglas DC-3 Deluxe Sounds
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[SIZE=-1]CFS2/FS2004 Douglas DC-3 Deluxe Sounds. The stock FS2004 DC3 sound pack made to sound the way it should: louder, richer, throatier, deeper. Full package. By Tim Dement.[/SIZE]

FS2004 (ACOF) - FS2004 Sound FS2004 Douglas DC-3 Sound
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[SIZE=-1]FS2004 Douglas DC-3 Sound. These sounds feature the famous DC3 Pratt & Whitney hum. Sounds were recorded inside and outside of N763A using three microphones. They were then put through an equalilzer in a sound studio and converted to .wav files suitable for flightsim use. By Trev Morson.[/SIZE]
 
OBIO said:
In one scene, Richy Rich's parents were boarding what looked like a DC3...but it had a longer, more tapered nose....but the rest of the plane was DC3...maybe that is how a DC3 is supposed to look and not like the one in FS2004...never seen a real one.

OBIO
Click to expand...

Did it look like this one



This is a DC 3 that has had the engines upgraded to Turbo Props.

I had a talk with the owner who of this plane and he explained when they upgraded the engines they had to change the nose as one of the things to get the balance right. They also added another fuel tank towards the front of 175 gals if I remember what he said correctly.

http://missionaryflights.org/about-mfi/the-fleet

They operate one DC 3 with the engine upgrade and two with the conventional radial engines.

n200mfpnew.jpg


While these still have radial engines they look like the longer nose on the turbo prop.

n300mf.jpg


n400mfpnew.jpg


Of course the turbo prop conversion will sound nothing like the radial engine.

The benefits of converting the plane to a turbo prop are small (in his words). They both end up burning the same amount of fuel.

Technically the turbo prop burns more per hour but you get where you are going much sooner with the turbo prop.

The traditional DC-3 / C-47 had a less pronounced point.

 
The engines were the standard radials...otherwise I would not have gotten all worked up over the sound of them...but the nose was more like the one in the pic you posted, Dave. Looked a lot like this one:

http://www.etc-cte.ec.gc.ca/organization/estd/dc3_large.jpg

and this one...minus the floats.

http://www.flyingboats.ca/_common\Douglas-DC3-FloatPlane-N130Q.jpg

or this one:

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/images/2008/10/22/dc3.jpg

And speaking of DC3/C47s on floats...I really need to convince myself to sell some blood and buy the MAAM package....if for no other reason than to have the float version.

OBIO
 
my since of all things being old and beautiful has just been shaken up..........Torbo props on a DC-3.......BLASPHEMY, but God can i fly it!!!!!!
 
Wow, those do sounds incredible. I'm a sucker for props anyways so anything thats a ton throatier that makes my neighbors get upset is great...!
 
Hi Obio,
Sorry I am late onto this one but I think I may know why the DC-3 in the Richie Rich movie sounds like it does.
The DC-3 (it is actually a C-53 ex military variant) used in the movie N147M was rebuild by Bashler Turbo Conversions, the same people who do the DC-3 turbine conversions with Pratt and Whitney R2000 radials from a DC-4/C-54.
It also has a speed kit consisting of the extended nose streamlined engine nacelles with full landing gear covers and prop spinners.

I came across this site just now that has sound samples taken from this airplane.
Might be usefull to you.

http://www.centercomp.com/cgi-bin/dc3/sounds?13

Scroll down about half way to were it says "sounds by museum staff".

Here is a photo of the airplane in question

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Douglas-C-53.../1020546/&sid=b3c1913adab8bf44f82dfac9c8b6b7e1

I have downloaded your sounds and will try them out.
Love your work.

Cheers.:ernae:
 
Nambus

Thanks for the link. The R-2000 sounds will definitely come in handy as that is one of the sound packs on my to-do list (R-1535, R-2000, R-1969 Hornet, Wright R-975 Whirlwind). I have a post-it note stuck to the bottom edge of my monitor reminding me to do them.

Yep, that was the plane in the movie....such a looker!

Tim
 
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