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I wish that digital thing j km Scream4 would sound better. Dunno what they have done to it, but it sounds worse than just a resolution resampler would sound.
My guess is, it's a cpu efficiency thing. On the other hand, it does the gritty digital distortion thing well, and has plenty of gain.
From the videos I watched those old disk drives are mostly worn out, guess I should really consider my options here, cheers.stillifegaijin wrote: ↑14 Apr 2021I sold my old Emax and I don't miss it in the slightest because Decimort is so much easier to use, more reliable, and more versatile. All the sound, none of the headache...and no piles of of disks in the corner!
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Lol, That's like saying 'why use that distortion pedal when I can add some eq to the clean channel?'plaingraywall wrote: ↑19 Apr 2021In my experience, with judicious use of EQ and saturation, it's not difficult to recreate the warmth of these old digital boxes without the need to actually throw good bits and khz away in 2021...
I don’t get the comparison - low sample rates affect frequency response, equivalent to filtering the sound (a filter is actually involved). So using one digital filter to emulate the effect of using another digital filter is totally logical IMO, while using an EQ to emulate a distortion effect makes no sense to me.Jackjackdaw wrote: ↑19 Apr 2021Lol, That's like saying 'why use that distortion pedal when I can add some eq to the clean channel?'plaingraywall wrote: ↑19 Apr 2021In my experience, with judicious use of EQ and saturation, it's not difficult to recreate the warmth of these old digital boxes without the need to actually throw good bits and khz away in 2021...
Yes, throwing kHz away is the best way to achieve these lo-fi sounds - exactly what an EQ can do! A very similar effect to the low bit-rate part can be achieved with saturation/very light distortion. Not sure what Jackjackdaw was getting atselig wrote: ↑19 Apr 2021I don’t get the comparison - low sample rates affect frequency response, equivalent to filtering the sound (a filter is actually involved). So using one digital filter to emulate the effect of using another digital filter is totally logical IMO, while using an EQ to emulate a distortion effect makes no sense to me.Jackjackdaw wrote: ↑19 Apr 2021
Lol, That's like saying 'why use that distortion pedal when I can add some eq to the clean channel?'
And to the “throwing kHz away” comment, well that’s actually another way to describe adding a LP filter to a signal - you are literally throwing kHz away!
It is a sound of its own. True. But its sound can be emulated somewhat by saturation/light distortion. It's the sample-rate destruction that can be emulated with EQ, as I said earlier; literally throwing kHz away to emulate those older low sample-rate samplers. Using a LPF EQ + some light Softube saturation, for example, isn't really all that dissimilar to the subtle warmth that old school samplers impart with their 12-bit 16khz sound; especially once everything is in the context of a dense mix.Jackjackdaw wrote: ↑19 Apr 2021The bit crushed sound is a sound of its own. It fizzes and whines. You can't eq it into being. The comparison is that a distortion pedal is effectively an unwanted blight upon the signal as is the bit crusher but it doesn't mean it doesn't sound good.
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