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been building a lot in the nether recently, dear lord the death sounds of blaze is shrill

Finally back, now I've had a chance to experience what this sound pack has to offer.
First off, let me say that I am highly impressed by the quality of work across the board!
The general sound effects for actions such as placing blocks, fight monsters etc are much better than in vanilla minecraft. Of special note, I loved the "click" button effect for menus, pressure plates and buttons, the shattering of glass, and the brilliance of the bow/arrow sfx. Monsters are especially creepy (I am now scared of ghasts all over again) and the ambience effects are terrific!
I did notice however, that there doesn't seem to be a sound effect for collect exp orbs? Could just be something with my version, but I did notice this missing. Also, I found that the item collection sfx was a little too quiet for my taste. Still an improvement over vanilla though!
Lastly, although I enjoyed the original compositions for background music, I found some of them to simply be too.... "Happy" for Minecraft. A few times when I was down in the dark, exploring and fighting monsters, the music would start with a rolling, joyous piano melody... which just felt out of place. This might not have been helped by the fact that the music seems to be longer than in vanilla minecraft. A game like this needs periods of silence, then music that comes in softly so that you barely notice it, but love it when it's there, and then don't notice it's gone until five minutes after it's finished. Again, this is my personal taste.
I will reinforce the fact though, that all sounds and music in this pack are still above and beyond what is in vanilla minecraft. While I would love to see some tweaks/additions/variations to this pack, I doubt I'll be turning it off an time soon.

TL;DR
This pack is amazing, download it now - you won't regret it.

Very very awesome sound pack! I do have some suggestions though.

Minecraft's 3d sound doesn't work with stereo sound files, you should convert all mob sounds into mono (except the Enderdragon and wither death sounds)

The xp orb, explosion and thunder sound files should also be louder.

Also the problem with the wither boss music is that you have to stay in one place to hear it, moving elsewhere will make the music fade away since the wither spawn sound doesn't play globally.

Overall, good job!

EDIT: Also the villagers sound feminine, that may cause problems with texture packs with masculine villagers

EDIT 2: The wolf barking sound also sounds too hostile especially since most texture packs portray them as friendly

Quote from Sn0w

I am giving the volume for bats a boost.
I am giving the Blazes a gender change...down 25 cents in pitch.
I will also be balancing the volume levels of the Noteblock...consider though...these are intended to radiate maximum sound across a far distance. The original sounds are quite soft...but paulscode makes them blare like aluminum trumpets!
I did not do the Horse and Donkey SFX...originally...muahahahahah! DrZhark gave me permission to do a total re-work on his sounds! For all the critters! Perhaps other top-notch mods would request my engineering (Mystcraft, Twilight Forest especially).

And for GOD's sake, someone please teach me how to make my own sound events so I can ADD what is missing! Workbench ambiance, biome-specific ambiance, BOSS music that follows the player that spawned the entity, ending credit music! If you are a QUALITY modder capable of these things, contact me! I will give props AND pay to get this working perfectly! I have great ideas, plans, etc...and an idea for a sound method that will boggle your brains!

I recommend taking a look at Hurricane's Matmos and Presence Footsteps mods, it adds all sorts of sound event hooks such as jumping, swinging your sword, nether ambience, high altitude wind gust and potentially boss battle music!

Snowsong thanks for this pack it's incredible. Loving the new feel of the game.

Just going to echo the suggestion on wolves however. Their barks are too aggressive and the whine is too long. With tamed wolves around my base I feel like I'm either about to be attacked by one or I'm scaring them to death lol.

For now I'm running default wolf barks/whine.

Great work on everything else though

Just found this last night. All I can say is that I can't believe I haven't been using this since it released! I will definitely continue using this along side my favorite textures. Kudos and Diamonds! Excellent work.

Looking forward to the new release

Some more suggestions xD (you can do this after you release the upcoming update)

The wither's hurt3.ogg sounds a lot softer than the other wither hurt sfx, it should be louder but you don't have to change it if you don't want to.

Also, Mojang (for some weird reason) plays the fizz sound and the angry pigman sounds an octave higher ingame than in the assets folder.
Proof: If you punch out a fire in creative mode ( the fizz.ogg only plays in creative) than play fizz.ogg in the assets folder, the fizz in the assets folder sounds an octave lower than in game. I just pointed this out since the fizz sound ingame sounds way to short for me, but in the assets folder it sounds just fine.

Speaking of pigmen, the zombie footsteps sfx are also used for zombie pigmen footsteps, just wanted to let you know since one of the footsteps sfx sounded like a zombie groan.

In the fireworks blast1.ogg there is a nasty click that plays in the right ear (the click that sometimes plays when a loud sound is suddenly cut off)

The Iron Golem's hurt sounds are also abruptly cut off at the end, much like some of the idle sounds of the Blaze.

I also noticed that some of the sfx sounded mono, however upon opening the files with Audacity, I saw that there were stereo tracks with the left and right ears playing identical sounds, causing the sfx to sound mono. For the sfx to work with MC's 3d sound, the sound files must have only mono tracks; upon opening the sfx files, there should only be a single track rather than two tracks with identical sounds. (It also decreases the file size xP)

That's all the suggestions I can think of! Looking forward to the new update!

Best pack I ever downloaded. Awesome sound.

Looks like it's not working in 1.7

Maybe is something with the sound-thingy they added at 13w42 ?

First time poster, long time Creeper. I gotta say, I absolutely love this mod. The music is very impressive, I wish I had that skill, but my talents lie more in Rock and Industrial x) I never cared for the original Minecraft music but your material is excellent. Just wish the panning / 3D sound would work with it properly as it's hard to tell where certain mobs are before you die hehe. Keep up the amazing work!

I can patiently wait for this to be updated, well worth the wait for these sounds. Good luck with the JSON!

Will Snowsong 2.0 still be released for MC 1.6?

Really love this, only complaint thus far is the music starts kinda loud and is really startling. Could you adjust it to make it start softer and gradually get louder?
EDIT: Also, the step sound for stone 3(I found it in the resource pack stuff) is really out of place with the other stone step sounds..

Just trying to give some constructive criticism as this is really great!