Boost sound is muffled in 1.4?

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

In 1.4 the boost sound of all 5 ships I've tried so far is muffled, as well as being quieter than before relative to other sounds. It reminds me of the way everything sounds when you are on oxygen. Tried changing the volume of FX, music etc. and tried different dynamic ranges, made no difference.

Is this the same for everyone else?

Can see nothing about this in the change log.

I think the sound of the other ships weapons is slightly muffled as well.

 

[Hagledesperado]

Yes, I wonder if they've applied a compressor to the main mix. Changing the "Audio" - "Optimise for" setting to "Full range" seems to make little or no difference.

Maybe the compression/ducking would be less noticable on speakers (I'm using headphones), but I do like my dynamic range, regardless of driver size, so I'm not thrilled by this particular change.

I hope they give us an option to disable the compression, or at least dial it back a little.

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

Thanks for the reply, I had concluded that it could be a bug on my side, which it still could be of course. Surprised that no-one else has mentioned it as it's certainly noticeable. IMO it sounds awful.

 

[Poseidal]

I think I'm experiencing this as well. Was it an intentional change?

EDIT: Found the problem. In a driver upgrade, it set my speakers to 7.1, meaning engine sounds were playing through speakers I didn't have.

 

[Hagledesperado]

I had another go at this when I experienced the same effect in another program. I found a setting in my Realtek HD Audio driver software. The tab is: Speaker properties -> Enhancements.

No enhancements were selected, so I initially didn't think that could be it. Yet, when I checked "Disable all sound effects", the sound returned to normal. No idea why it changed itself at rougly the same time as 1.4 was installed, or why a sound effect was active at all when no boxes were checked.