Custom Music / Goal Horn Thread

[Ridgeberg]

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I messe dwith the volume sliders and got it sounding pretty good by maxing the arena music slider and lwering all others.

I'm actually gonna import some music from my PC without any reverb and see if it sounds better or worse

I just read on TheBreakaway.net that NHL 09 adds reverb to songs that you import. I just tried it using Indestructible by Disturbed. Regular song, no crowd, no reverb...sounds great. I lowered crowd noise 1 tic to the left, maxed out the arena music slider.

[bigwill33]

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Yeah you don't need reverb because it already adds it. Sounds pretty good too. Could be a little louder at times, but I will have to bump down other sliders and try that.

If you have your xbox networked with wmp on your pc then you don't have to save songs to your xbox hard drive. I have a playlist with over a thousand songs that seem to be shuffling through at random during play stoppages and it is really nice! I am going to have to go through and just customize a few and should be all set. You can create the playlists right in wmp and xbox will find them as long as the two outlets are linked.

[bwiggy33]

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The custom goal horns aren't starting for me until a few seconds after the goal. How do I fix this? I am using networking from WMP so I guess that could be the problem.

[rckabillyRaider]

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I just read on TheBreakaway.net that NHL 09 adds reverb to songs that you import. I just tried it using Indestructible by Disturbed. Regular song, no crowd, no reverb...sounds great. I lowered crowd noise 1 tic to the left, maxed out the arena music slider.

Thanks for that. I kinda figured that was going on. Now I gotta just add regular song files instead of my over produced NCAA files.

[les3couleurs]

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Could somebody please list all the categories (situations, i.e. home goal, penalty, intro...) available in NHL09 ? I'm making my playlists on my iPod and can't get the game before next week.

Thanks.

[mudtiger]

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They really really need a volume slider for the custom songs like NCAA. NCAA's sounds were very loud to being with though.

[Jitters_1981]

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Pretty much what everyone is saying that poro's songs with reverb and stuff don't work well with nhl 09 and are really quiet? If so has anyone found a workaround for it yet, or is anyone planning on taking away the reverb and what not from the files so they work well?

[Jitters_1981]

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What are you talking about? :O

I have one huuge 500 song playlist for break in play songs, and it works perfect. Custom soundtracks are done very well in NHL 09. You can make custom arena sounds for every team in the game and that's cool. Goal Songs don't work so good, but intros, penalty songs, break in play songs etc rocks!

are these the ones that you uploaded to the site and if so what did you do to make them work well? Maybe if they are streamed they are lower than if they are on the 360's hdd?

[TNKNGM]

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So I guess the thing to do would be to leave the Goal horns that are already included in the game volume turned on so you hear the horn right away on a goal, and find a way to get the goal songs without the horns blring for 5 secondes.

This should mesh the EA horns together with just the song coming in a couple seconds later.

Anybody out there plan on zipping together some music and uploading them to sendspace.com so we can get a good in-game music share going?

[Jitters_1981]

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So I guess the thing to do would be to leave the Goal horns that are already included in the game volume turned on so you hear the horn right away on a goal, and find a way to get the goal songs without the horns blring for 5 secondes.

This should mesh the EA horns together with just the song coming in a couple seconds later.

Anybody out there plan on zipping together some music and uploading them to sendspace.com so we can get a good in-game music share going?

So the verdict so far is that the horns need work? What about the break in songs tk, are they good as is or do they need modded as well?

[Qb]

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Yeah you don't need reverb because it already adds it. Sounds pretty good too. Could be a little louder at times, but I will have to bump down other sliders and try that.

I thought I heard some reverb. Nice touch on EA's part to include this. I set "Hell's Bells" (album version, no editing) as my intro song for the Baby Pens in my BAP career and it was friggin' awesome. It lines up almost perfectly with the game intro, as you hear the bells when you're in the tunnel and the guitar comes in almost at the exact time the players hit the ice.

As for the low volume of custom audio, I tried lowering the other volume settings to compensate late last night. I couldn't get a good read on it since the wife was in bed and I had my surround sound down pretty low. One thing I did notice was that this will only help if you use custom audio for all arena music. The stuff I left at default (stoppages in play, away goal, etc) was blaring.

I plan on addressing this in the first list of stuff I send to the EA community manager (CM for future reference). Maybe they could do something with a separate custom audio volume setting or adjust something behind the scenes to make custom audio volume closer to that of the default playlists. I'm only speculating here. I have no idea if this is possible or if EA would see it as something that should/could/would be done.

[bigwill33]

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Cool, good idea qb! Hopefully they could do something with it or suggest a way to fix it better than what we have found.

I never thought of hells bells, I figured it would start out too slow and you would never get to the part with any guitar. I am with the Baby Pens too. I have the Penguins theme song on my computer already so I should be able to set that for the big club when I make it up. Have some other yinser staples too, like Cotton Eyed Joe (man I hate that song!). But should get it sounding as authentic as possible.

I simply cannot state how much this adds to the game. When we used to play NHL on the PC the ditties were as huge as anything. We were all so sad when they took them away. Now they are back and coming out of a surround sound and on a big screen this games looks and sounds amazing!

[Jitters_1981]

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I think that the songs that start out slow with great intro's leading into the music would sound best, i.e. hells bells,for whom the bell tolls, money for nothing by dire straits, etc. If anyone else finds songs that work great plz post em Did anyone try the 500 songs that were posted and if so how did they sound? did you have to up the sound on them also?

[JoeMimic]

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I'm using the Baby Pens as well. I've got Atreyu's "You Eclipsed By Me" out of my collection as we skate onto the ice and I've put Song 2 as the goal score sound and it works darn well.

[Fiddy]

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so does Poros songs work well with nhl 09? i see someone said they sounded to low? can anyone confirm this?