Thief I + II Sound effects enhancement pack

[TAIMAT]

Thief 1 Sound Enhancement Pack
Thief 2 Sound Enhancement Pack

Thief 1 Sound Effects Enhancement Pack

Thief 2 Sound Effects Enhancement Pack

Thanx for providing mirrors
his Thief ost was amazing .. i will surely try those packs

[KoHaN69]

The page-turning noise, as well as all the menu sounds/music and the book-reading music, are metasounds described in dark.cfg, which consequently means they are not associated with any schemas, and thus LGS had no ability to alter their volume in game; their volume is entirely dependent on the level of the WAV file itself. That means that all those sounds should carefully be edited to maintain the same volume levels as the originals. I imagine in some cases (pageturn based on ffox's comment) your audio optimization lead to an increase in volume.

it's easily fixed by decreasing the volume of the sound in the file itself.

I took
Thief2\RES\snd\SFX\PAGETURN.WAV

and decreased the volume by 15 dB in audacity

everything sounds perfect now

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a...d71d83c0cb2532
(original backup included)
note:
your snd is most likely not a folder, but a snd.crf file, extract it and rename old snd.crf to anything else and place the file in the folder, overwriting the old one.
if you want it to be a crf again, make the snd folder into a zip file (not rar) and rename it from .zip to .crf

[Moore]

You can go to the control panel on your computer and click sounds, there you can change some settings. I don't know what sound card you're using, but sometimes the manufacturer has software available to change settings, check the site of your sound card manufacturer for more information.










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Sound Effects

[ticky]

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I play Burrick's Head Inn with the sound enhancement pack installed. Weird thing is that when I steal loot the game plays GET ITEM sound instead of the GET LOOT sound.

[Child Of Karras]

That is strange. Is it Thief 1 or Thief 2?

[ticky]

That is strange. Is it Thief 1 or Thief 2?

Thief 2 fan mission by Yandros, Burrick's Head In v2.0

[Child Of Karras]

It's propably not the fault of my sound pack, since I never had these problem although I'm using the same installer. So I guess it's FM inside. Whatever it is.

[Child Of Karras]

Updated links once again, after having moved to the new server. You can now use and share the links in the start post.

[Timiditas]

So I took various tools from my computer and edited the soundfiles. This includes resampling, equalizing, noise reduction, complete sample replacement (e.g. from Thief 3 or Apple Garage Band) or brilliance enhancement.
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- CoK

Sounds brilliant. I'd like to ask if you could perhaps post what exact methods you used to enhance the old files (where you did not replace them by Thief3 sounds for example), like EQ settings, what noise filters / upscaled format or even the software you used so we could enhance the dialog voice files (of the various language versions) as well.

I'm willing to edit the dialog files of Thief Gold (English) and upload them somewhere.
Thanks in advance

[DanielSmedegaardBuus]

These are REALLY nice Must've taken ages to process. I definitely see why you wanted to do it - the original audio isn't exactly high fidelity

Thank you very much!

[Child Of Karras]

Sounds brilliant. I'd like to ask if you could perhaps post what exact methods you used to enhance the old files (where you did not replace them by Thief3 sounds for example), like EQ settings, what noise filters / upscaled format or even the software you used so we could enhance the dialog voice files (of the various language versions) as well.

I'm willing to edit the dialog files of Thief Gold (English) and upload them somewhere.
Thanks in advance

Thanks. Well, depending on the files I usually started by converting them to 16 bit PCM (independent of samplerate) and at the same time apply fft noise reduction; noise print was an empty 8-bit Dither A noise for 8-bit sounds - on ADPCM sounds I jused standard hiss reduction. All of this is done in Adobe Audition (1.5). If it was non-tonal sounds I resampled them with BeSweet (first to 31 kHz, then to 44 kHz. Resampling twice gives a more complex overtone structure). Tonal sounds were directly loaded into Magix Cleaning Lab and applied with the brilliance enhancer. The EQ afterwards formed a high-cut at 15 kHz to reduce all very high unwanted frequencies and gain frequencies that were lower due to all the resampling so I had a balanced frequency image.

But honestly: I wouldn't resample the voice files. Speech doesn't contain useful frequencies above 11 kHz so 22 kHz is enough. Noise reduction and format conversion can be done though.

[Stan_The_Thief]

No, speech files are fine as they are.

[jtr7]

Too late.

[bikerdude]

For some reason the installer dosent work -

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>copy RES\snd.crf RES\snd.bak
The system cannot find the file specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>ren RES\snd.crf snd.zip
The system cannot find the file specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>mkdir RES\SFX
A subdirectory or file RES\SFX already exists.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>mkdir RES\FEET
A subdirectory or file RES\FEET already exists.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>mkdir RES\DOORS
A subdirectory or file RES\DOORS already exists.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>SoundUpdate\Rar x SoundUpdate\NewT2SFX.rar *.* RES
\
The system cannot find the path specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>cd RES

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate\RES>..\SoundUpdate\7za u snd.zip SFX\*.*
The system cannot find the path specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate\RES>..\SoundUpdate\7za u snd.zip FEET\*.*
The system cannot find the path specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate\RES>..\SoundUpdate\7za u snd.zip DOORS\*.*
The system cannot find the path specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate\RES>cd ..

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>ren RES\snd.zip snd.crf
The system cannot find the file specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>del RES\sfx\*.wav
Could Not Find D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate\RES\sfx\*.wav

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>del RES\feet\*.wav
Could Not Find D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate\RES\feet\*.wav

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>del RES\doors\*.wav
Could Not Find D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate\RES\doors\*.wav

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>del SoundUpdate\*.exe
The system cannot find the file specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>del SoundUpdate\*.rar
The system cannot find the file specified.

D:\Games\Thief\T2\SoundUpdate>

Where are the installation instructions.

[Stan_The_Thief]

I've noticed that your sounds for "walking on wood" have been borrowed from T3. Could you instead process the original T1/T2 footsteps-on-wood sounds through the filter and post that?

[Child Of Karras]

Update Version 1.5 (2012-12-27):
- New installation routine that checks the existence of snd.crf in both RES and CRFS folder before continuing
- many Thief 3 sounds (doors, foot steps etc.) exchanged with restored Thief 1/2 sounds
- various sound fixes (e.g. tension1.wav for Thief 1)

BTW: Could anyone move this to "Thief General Discussion"?

[kokobollo]

I don't understand.. why so quiet this thread, even though new update?
btw, restored Thief 1/2 sounds are much proper than TDS sounds! nice work!

[sysyphus]

hey, thanks for the changes. i wasn't too big on the T3 sounds, but this is very nice. using it now.

[jtr7]

I don't understand.. why so quiet this thread, even though new update?
btw, restored Thief 1/2 sounds are much proper than TDS sounds! nice work!

Because it's not that important to, I'm guessing, most taffers who know about it, while I'm certain a great deal of taffers don't even know about it, and others aren't interested in messing anymore with their installs than they have to to just get it running on their systems, while others are just not confident about making changes that they feel aren't important enough. And all of that has little to do with how appreciative of the work itself they are. For my own purposes, I like my Thief as-is, but I'll turn off the HUD for screenshots. Someday I might slap on a bunch of fan-patches.

[Child Of Karras]

After all, the improvements that this pack brings aren't as apparent as e.g. with new objects and textures. The group of users who don't only care for a great graphics performance but are also audiophile is rather small, I think, so that most people won't notice noise reductions and harmonics restortion at all.

[kokobollo]

well, I expected at least mirrors.
but there were no mirrors, so...



NewT1SoundFX:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_n...ndWUS0zZG80c1E

NewT2SoundFX:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_n...HZnN3BQalcwTmM

[clearing]

Thief1SoundFXEnhancement.exe
Thief2SoundFXEnhancement.exe

[Albert]

Maybe something wrong with my audio settings, but I'm not hearing Garrett's hurt sounds.

But everything else sounds pretty good... Provided I've truly got it working and am not sound-quality blind with Thief.

[Child Of Karras]

Gotta check that ASAP, but actually the Garrett sounds haven't been touched.

[Child Of Karras]

Do normal voices work? Idle talk of the watchmen and all?