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Issue with DJ Sona Voiceover (very hard to understand with additional VO filtering)

TechMonkie·2/3/2015, 8:43:12 PM·34 votes·45,659 views

First and foremost, this skin looks freaking bananas.. incredibly good job to your art and modeling department, much deserved kudos to all of you.

That being said, I have to admit that I'm less than impressed with the new voiceover. There's so much distortion and reverb that it's incredibly hard to hear what she's saying at all. I like the idea of adding an 'electronic' edge to her voice for this skin, but you guys have to seriously tone back on the distortion/reverb, or it's just gonna sound like a really big echo'y mess. I've included a YouTube link to the new voiceover so you can listen to it and draw your own conclusions.

You guys have a really good product here, and my wife and I will be insta-buying it as soon as it drops, but please, consider doing something with the voiceover.

The only other minor pet peeve I have is not being able to select which song I want to listen to when she's on my team, but that's relatively minor considering how overbearing the VO issue is.

Regards,

Tech

133 Comments

RiotRiot Galetta2/3/2015, 9:29:22 PM55 votes

Hey guys,

I just wanted to jump in and comment on this. We intended for her VO to not be understandable. This VO change was made in order for the VO to not distract or interfere with her music. She has an obvious Daft punk/EDM feel and we wanted the VO to harmonize with that.

The VO is also supposed to be heard with her music. I would hold off on final judgement until you get the whole experience. :D

Handyman552/3/2015, 9:13:03 PM8 votes

She's speaking simlish.

Dryad Soraka2/3/2015, 8:46:02 PM5 votes

Looks great but I can't understand a damn thing and she's only got 3:04 minutes of VO (SGU has more, and Final Boss Veigar has like 6 minutes)

Purodyuusaa2/3/2015, 9:09:22 PM5 votes

Oh good, I'm not the only one upset that she has less lines than new Tristana, Veigar's and Janna's legendary skin, and that I can't understand a single word she's saying except 'metronome.'

I hope there's more to it and they just datamined it wrong.

Judge Arcadia2/3/2015, 8:58:44 PM4 votes

I am fairly certain she has a few lines in there that are in french. Which would be a HUGE nod to Daft Punk, seeing as they are a couple of musical badass's.

Centuros2/3/2015, 10:58:00 PM4 votes

She's saying actual words? Sounds more like... more music, actually.

Celeste Benal2/3/2015, 9:29:54 PM3 votes

Yup. As awesome as the effect is, the only line I can understand is "Move like a metronome." Less reverb plz.

Disrokous2/4/2015, 7:07:55 AM3 votes

I love playing support and was seriously thinking about getting this ultimate skin, but after hearing the VO i will 100% not be getting the skin. This is an ultimate skin and seems pointless that you cannot even understand her VO lines. We get all these new champions that have VO lines for items or VO lines with different champions in the game and yet we have to shell out $20 for a skin and cannot even understand her VO lines. Riot Galatta said it sounds better with the music but I disagree, I enjoy listening to my champions voice and hearing what they have to say, I do not want to spend $20 on a skin just to turn off one complete feature of the skin because it sounds terrible (even when paired with the music).

Ligerzz2/4/2015, 8:27:45 AM3 votes

I think some of her lines are said backwards. I can understand some of those lines, but some don't sound very, English to me.