Author: KanawhaCountyWX

Clip from Caddicarus’ "The Useless World of PS1 Accessories" video, but ran through a couple of Audacity macros and noise reduced, so its a bitcrushed fever dream.

While sorting through my late father’s last record crate, I found a copy of Weather Report’s 1977 album "Heavy Weather." For some reason this is amazingly well mastered, not sure why it caught me by surprise as much as it did but damn this sounds good. Turntable is an AudioTechnica AT-LP120X using a VM95 cartrage.

This is what happens when you stitch two files together using FFmpeg, and don’t normalize the sample rate

We lost power this morning, and our big Generac backu generator shit the bed months ago, so we broke out the spare Black Max generator, except it was running terribly, and when I’d switch the choak from start to run it’d just die. I can’t wait until we get the damn Generac fixed.

So as it turns out the song "2 Funky (Radio Mix) by Candy Dulfer from 1993 has very poppy percussion that brings heavy-handed audio processing down to its knees begging for mercy. Here’s how this song sounds through GranComp3’s Deep preset, and I can hear it screaming in pain.

My hat is tipped to the Commodore 64 chiptune greats. This particular track is the title screen music from R-Type, composed by Chris Hulesbeck and Romero Vaca. Keep in mind, at any given moment, there can only be three notes occurring at once, so for chords and the like clever rapid programming tricks had to…