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| 0s | under the hood is back I'm Devin Connors |
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| 3s | and today I'm sitting down with some of |
| 5s | the audio team to chat about how we make |
| 7s | cars in rocket League sound incredible |
| 9s | season 10 is underway so what better car |
| 11s | to focus on than one of the hottest |
| 13s | hatches of all time the Volkswagen Golf |
| 16s | 2 GTI I have Mike and Carson here with |
| 19s | me to talk us through the process start |
| 20s | to finish I'm recording out in the field |
| 22s | to the final engine audio you hear in |
| 24s | game thanks for hanging out with me |
| 26s | today guys yeah of course happy to be |
| 28s | here yeah so how has engine audio |
| 30s | development changed for us over the last |
| 32s | seven plus years so when the game first |
| 34s | came out we uh we used a physics-based |
| 37s | system that was only using the physics |
| 39s | of the cars and was not really emulating |
| 41s | what a car engine would do so over time |
| 44s | we rebuilt the system modeling gear |
| 47s | ratios to actually try to make the |
| 49s | engine sound much more real so when |
| 51s | we're designing engine audio for car |
| 53s | like the Volkswagen GTI uh what's our |
| 56s | approach to that like well for something |
| 58s | like the GTI and we were able to find |
| 60s | lines luckily for us a really great |
| 63s | sounding version of that car and we were |
| 65s | able to go out and record it you know |
| 67s | Carson I would love to see footage of us |
| 69s | recording that engine audio |
| 71s | luckily for you |
| 75s | oh hey did |
| 81s | a process of recording for corner and |
| 83s | how we implement it in the game |
| 85s | the first GTI that we have here is |
| 87s | essentially stock it's had a little bit |
| 90s | of modifications done to it and then the |
| 92s | next version we're going to record is a |
| 94s | fully upgraded version of this card |
| 96s | that's basically been straight piped and |
| 98s | turned into a race car so you'll |
| 100s | definitely notice |
| 102s | um sort of a quote-unquote sound upgrade |
| 104s | and this is really helpful for us when |
| 105s | we're going into the game we have a tier |
| 108s | one and a tier two of this car the tier |
| 111s | one which sounds a lot closer to you how |
| 113s | you would expect the car and then a tier |
| 115s | two which is a full out race car and |
| 117s | that feels really good in game a lot of |
| 119s | these microphones are selected obviously |
| 121s | a for the way they sound but B also for |
| 123s | their sound pressure level handling |
| 125s | capabilities if they're if they can't |
| 127s | handle the sound pressure but for the |
| 128s | most part these mics can handle really |
| 130s | really loud cars we have mics on the |
| 133s | intake on the engine we're running mics |
| 136s | in a bunch of different perspectives for |
| 138s | the exhaust we have close mic we have |
| 140s | mid mics we have one that's way back |
| 142s | then we have an ambisonic mic that's |
| 144s | actually in the interior interior of the |
| 146s | car and then we'll go through and Sample |
| 148s | difference |
| 150s | RPM Loops if you were making a musical |
| 152s | instrument sample set it would be the |
| 154s | equivalent of telling a trumpet player |
| 156s | all right hold middle C as loud as you |
| 158s | can for five seconds and then all right |
| 160s | now drop it down to B flat and hold that |
| 162s | for five seconds but instead of you know |
| 164s | doing musical notes we're doing RPM |
| 166s | intervals with the car |
| 170s | [Music] |
| 186s | good |
| 188s | 25. |
| 203s | that is a wrap my friends back to you in |
| 206s | the studio |
| 211s | so once we're back in the studio we are |
| 213s | able to open up the session get |
| 215s | everything synced up and then start |
| 218s | mixing it and kind of doing the any |
| 220s | processing we want and any compression |
| 223s | and Distortion to try to make it sound |
| 225s | more fun in the case of the tier two |
| 229s | um so here is one of those ramps |
| 233s | um |
| 235s | fairly long but uh which is really |
| 238s | helpful when we get to the granular part |
| 240s | of this |
| 243s | [Music] |
| 246s | and then once we're done implementing it |
| 248s | we can test it in the game see how it |
| 250s | feels possibly go back through the |
| 252s | process and change anything that needs |
| 254s | to be tweaked to make it feel more alive |
| 256s | and like a better car |
| 258s | and then at that point ship it release |
| 261s | it play it in the game |
| 264s | that's good |
| 267s | [Music] |
| 269s | yeah it was really cool watching that |
| 271s | entire process out in the field as Audio |
| 273s | Pros what are your goals when you're |
| 276s | designing audio for a game like rocket |
| 278s | league so rocket league is an |
| 280s | interesting balance between a |
| 281s | competitive game and also a fun casual |
| 284s | game and so finding that balance and |
| 286s | finding what is fatiguing when someone's |
| 288s | gonna put in eight hours plus a day or |
| 291s | they're gonna spend 20 minutes playing |
| 293s | they both need to have a great |
| 295s | experience well there's a lot to account |
| 296s | for right I mean you have the crowd |
| 298s | audio you have the car audio you have |
| 301s | the ball audio which is really important |
| 302s | yeah there's a lot of audio cues |
| 304s | happening sort of simultaneously during |
| 305s | a match for us we sort of approach it as |
| 308s | using audio for player feedback and then |
| 312s | also it's just got to be entertaining we |
| 313s | want to sound good we want to sound fun |
| 315s | so it's a mixture of you know |
| 316s | entertainment and feedback and we just |
| 319s | want to give the player sort of the best |
| 321s | experience we can and the most |
| 323s | entertaining experience we can thanks |
| 325s | Carson and Mike for taking us on that |
| 327s | Epic Audio Odyssey we can't wait to hear |
| 329s | your thoughts on the Volkswagen GTI so |
| 331s | be sure to share your feedback with us |
| 333s | on the subreddit and in Discord if you |
| 335s | want to see more content like this hit |
| 337s | the like subscribe buttons below we hope |
| 339s | you enjoy season 10. foreign |