Audio volume of multiple engines

[TGApples]

I like using multiple small engines from time to time, mostly for fine-tuning thrust:engine weight/cost. For example: I may use two sparks instead of one terrier as it's 0.2t instead of 0.5t, but one spark doesn't have enough thrust to get me going. Or maybe I'll use a ring of 8 ants to top up my terrier thrust. That sort of thing.

My issue is that the game seems to use additive volume for these engines, with a single engine being roughly the same volume no matter the size. This means that when you have many engines firing the game gets disproportionatly loud. 8 ants should not make nearly as much noise as they do compared to something with over 10x the thrust.

Is there any way to tweak this in a configuration file or the audio settings? It's really rather annoying.

[Gargamel]

This has been raised a few times over the years.   I believe there is a bug tracker for it too.

Simple answer is turn down the volume on your speakers.   I know that sounds contrite, but that's the simple answer.  I do not know of any patch that can fix this, but some of the modders out there may know.