Descent Audio CD
Sunday, 16. December 2007, 03:40:16
So well...
The CD that's been playing the last 80 minutes or so was one that has a compilation of all three games' tracks...
Started with a DOS OPL-2 FM rendition of Descent title (Descent.mid), went on with "Contribution", a mix of game03.mid, Descent II tracks (both MIDI renditions and Redbook audio), and so on.
Jerry's 128 kbps MP3 files (quite decently encoded, by the way, though inevitably somewhat woody-sounding) decoded, a copy of tracks off the Definitive Collection Descent II CD, and the Descent II & Descent MIDI files mixed/rendered here. All of that remastered for the CD - with some additional reverb for the old Descent mixes, and all tracks processed by Izotope Trash analogue filter emulation and Waves Stereoimager+ stereo image shaping.
The Izotope Trash DX plugin can improve dynamics with its analogue filter emulation, also its speaker cabinet emulation adds a bit of extra brightness which livens up CD audio.
Waves Stereoimager+ has a Blumlein shuffle implementation, arranging different frequency bands according to psychoacoustic model of perception (humans are most sensitive to upper low/midrange frequencies, midrange usually appears as "wider" and more detailed). Blumlein shuffle also adds a high-frequency crossfeed, which helps listening in headphones.
All of this sounded surprisingly quite lively, even though the old game mixes (game04.mid, game05.mid, game09.mid) all were mixed a tad too bass-heavy (the amp they were mixed on had the bass cut to less than half/treble boosted to maximum). Game09.mid even was quite groove-inducing B)
Jerry's tracks sounded quite warm and engaging after processing, which brings the suspicion of him having mixed with his own AKG headphones (K-340?).
Here's the tracklist:
1. Descent Introduction (OPL2 FM, reverberated).
2. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Contribution".
3. Descent - Game03.mid - "Lunar Military Base".
4. Brian Luzietti - "Crawl"
5. Descent Game01.mid - "Lunar Outpost" (Reason mix).
6. Playstation/Mac Descent (Descent game02.mid) - "Lunar Military Scientific Lab".
7. Descent II Introduction (Descent2.mid).
8. Brian Luzietti - Descent II Title.
9. Bob Brown - "Cold Reality"
10. Descent Game10.mid.
11. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Top Hush"
12. Descent Game12.mid - "Callisto Mining Colony".
13. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Solar Ignite".
14. Descent Game04.mid - "Venus Atmospheric Lab".
15. Jerry Berlonghieri - Descent 3 Credits.
16. Descent Game05.mid - "Venus Sulphur Mine".
17. Descent Game09.mid.
18. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Retribution".
The CD that's been playing the last 80 minutes or so was one that has a compilation of all three games' tracks...
Started with a DOS OPL-2 FM rendition of Descent title (Descent.mid), went on with "Contribution", a mix of game03.mid, Descent II tracks (both MIDI renditions and Redbook audio), and so on.
Jerry's 128 kbps MP3 files (quite decently encoded, by the way, though inevitably somewhat woody-sounding) decoded, a copy of tracks off the Definitive Collection Descent II CD, and the Descent II & Descent MIDI files mixed/rendered here. All of that remastered for the CD - with some additional reverb for the old Descent mixes, and all tracks processed by Izotope Trash analogue filter emulation and Waves Stereoimager+ stereo image shaping.
The Izotope Trash DX plugin can improve dynamics with its analogue filter emulation, also its speaker cabinet emulation adds a bit of extra brightness which livens up CD audio.
Waves Stereoimager+ has a Blumlein shuffle implementation, arranging different frequency bands according to psychoacoustic model of perception (humans are most sensitive to upper low/midrange frequencies, midrange usually appears as "wider" and more detailed). Blumlein shuffle also adds a high-frequency crossfeed, which helps listening in headphones.
All of this sounded surprisingly quite lively, even though the old game mixes (game04.mid, game05.mid, game09.mid) all were mixed a tad too bass-heavy (the amp they were mixed on had the bass cut to less than half/treble boosted to maximum). Game09.mid even was quite groove-inducing B)
Jerry's tracks sounded quite warm and engaging after processing, which brings the suspicion of him having mixed with his own AKG headphones (K-340?).
Here's the tracklist:
1. Descent Introduction (OPL2 FM, reverberated).
2. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Contribution".
3. Descent - Game03.mid - "Lunar Military Base".
4. Brian Luzietti - "Crawl"
5. Descent Game01.mid - "Lunar Outpost" (Reason mix).
6. Playstation/Mac Descent (Descent game02.mid) - "Lunar Military Scientific Lab".
7. Descent II Introduction (Descent2.mid).
8. Brian Luzietti - Descent II Title.
9. Bob Brown - "Cold Reality"
10. Descent Game10.mid.
11. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Top Hush"
12. Descent Game12.mid - "Callisto Mining Colony".
13. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Solar Ignite".
14. Descent Game04.mid - "Venus Atmospheric Lab".
15. Jerry Berlonghieri - Descent 3 Credits.
16. Descent Game05.mid - "Venus Sulphur Mine".
17. Descent Game09.mid.
18. Jerry Berlonghieri - "Retribution".
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