My EVE

An unfortunate fact (to me) about battle videos on YouTube for EVE Online is that they are all filled with music while the sound is completely muted. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in sharing any videos of beautifully cinematic battles where one might revel in the exquisite sound effects of the game? I long for a good video where I can just enjoy the sound of weapons firing, engines roaring and vessels exploding.

It's an interesting point, Vann.

Earlier this year I laid a synth track under an ISD shoot-out, towards the end of a video I made about the event, using in-game footage supplied by them.

The reason was that the one-on-one battle itself, although not devoid of sound of course, consisted mainly of the repetitive (and rather slow) firing of the weapons (they were in battleships), and a bunch of drones. That was it. They were fighting at close quarters, so there were no prop mods in evidence. Tracking mods would have been noisy, but only heard from the ships actually using them, which is another problem, I guess. The one capturing the video isn't always in the fight.

I get what you mean, and I understand that sometimes the selection of music for this purpose is unhelpful, but that's in the hands of the video-maker - and most of them seem to feel that the music is necessary to reinforce the drama of what's on-screen.

Perhaps a compromise would be to lower the volume of the music so that the sfx could be heard; but asking most folks to 'turn it down!' is not likely to meet with success.

I wish you luck on your search, and I always check out this sub-forum for interesting stuff, so perhaps something will turn up!

They're usually muted because most audio recorded by fleet fights is third party audio chats.