God damn C64ers and their SID! :-) I didn't have a C64 back then, very people here in Brazil had them as they were horribly expensive for us, I wonder how my teen years would have been if we had them here. We did have fun with our MSXs and their AY chip, but damn, the SID is amazing.
I'm pretty sure Dolby Headphone DSP is the culprit. It seems to give some boost to lower freqs/bass or something. I have noticed this in many DHP uploads. It has never bothered me, as pure emulated SID sound can be very "thin". There's also the filter distortion issue. Lots of different ones available in sidplayw. I've used the "Galway" one because its... well Galway for Pete's sake ;) Perhaps it also affects somehow. I have not deliberately boosted lower freqs/bass that's for sure.
You sometimes forget how good the Commodore 64 sounds till you hear this. The SID chip was years ahead of its time and probably still is for what it was. I am listening to this through old Mach 3 radioshack speakers, it sure sounds good.
True. Even Amiga's Paula couldn't give the same fidelity in places (=filters mainly). Let alone all the other 'competition', say as AY in ZX Spectrum, MSX and Amstrad CPC for example. SID was designed from ground up to be a musical instrument while all the others just expanded digital hardware to a speaker. It had all the main musical features which good analog synths in the 70s and before had: ring-modulation, oscillator hard-sync, pulse-width modulation, several oscillators: saw, square, triangle, multimode filters with resonance.
10 minutes in and I only just realised I wasn't paying zero attention to a demo because of the music. I'm glad there was no demo I was ignoring because the music is just too good - I am very sensitive and I have a conscience and I do not want to ignore talent and effort, so that was a genuine concern I had. I am really glad this is a compilation of these amazing tunes alone and I can just jump back in and do what I had been doing: enjoying it thoroughly, and then some! Holy crap, this slaps! 🔥 Edit: Thank you, Jeff (Soren Lund)! Also, can you please release this on vinyl so I can play it on TH-cam while I hang your record on a wall? Preferably in red vinyl, with the screen on the cover.
This sound great on my Sony MDR-V6 Headphones...Still jammin the same type of headphones to this day like i did back then through my stereo to my C64.Long live the 80"s
I'm a heathen and I listen this on a rare early 2000's Panasonic home cinema set I was lucky enough to have been gifted. I can understand why headphones are pretty much mandatory, and I am very grateful for these gifts. There are definitely exceptions to headphones and they are definitely rare, but I definitely have one of them. I first realised it listening to a song from Sting in an older recording of Englishman in New York and I could suddenly hear all the instruments and I had never been able to before in this clarity. I also played Shape of My Heart right after, and now these tunes. And in between a lot of course, like One from Metallica, and I also love Moth from Sound Garden, and I adore CAFO from Animals as Leaders and Close to You from the Carpenters. But this collection is right up there with the classics and epics.
Thanks for the kinds words. It might be a bit quiet for a while in my channel, as the world of Tyria (Guild Wars 2) has me completely and utterly hooked. But it'll wear off after a while, i hope lol.
God damn C64ers and their SID! :-) I didn't have a C64 back then, very people here in Brazil had them as they were horribly expensive for us, I wonder how my teen years would have been if we had them here. We did have fun with our MSXs and their AY chip, but damn, the SID is amazing.
Been listening to a lot of old school chipmusic (amiga, atari, c64, nes). These tracks are among the best I have ever heard.
I'm pretty sure Dolby Headphone DSP is the culprit. It seems to give some boost to lower freqs/bass or something. I have noticed this in many DHP uploads. It has never bothered me, as pure emulated SID sound can be very "thin". There's also the filter distortion issue. Lots of different ones available in sidplayw. I've used the "Galway" one because its... well Galway for Pete's sake ;) Perhaps it also affects somehow.
I have not deliberately boosted lower freqs/bass that's for sure.
You sometimes forget how good the Commodore 64 sounds till you hear this. The SID chip was years ahead of its time and probably still is for what it was. I am listening to this through old Mach 3 radioshack speakers, it sure sounds good.
True. Even Amiga's Paula couldn't give the same fidelity in places (=filters mainly). Let alone all the other 'competition', say as AY in ZX Spectrum, MSX and Amstrad CPC for example. SID was designed from ground up to be a musical instrument while all the others just expanded digital hardware to a speaker. It had all the main musical features which good analog synths in the 70s and before had: ring-modulation, oscillator hard-sync, pulse-width modulation, several oscillators: saw, square, triangle, multimode filters with resonance.
This is dope! Amazing! Thanks! 💥
Jeff's sounds are nothing less than amazing.
I just love the SidChip, it Rock's. Keep up the good work m8.. :)
SID chip, beautiful and inspiring.
I will be expecting to hear more about you. Suscribed.
Bass in X-Large 5 sounds so cool, like a TB303. Is the real thing as cool as that?
10 minutes in and I only just realised I wasn't paying zero attention to a demo because of the music. I'm glad there was no demo I was ignoring because the music is just too good - I am very sensitive and I have a conscience and I do not want to ignore talent and effort, so that was a genuine concern I had. I am really glad this is a compilation of these amazing tunes alone and I can just jump back in and do what I had been doing: enjoying it thoroughly, and then some! Holy crap, this slaps! 🔥
Edit:
Thank you, Jeff (Soren Lund)! Also, can you please release this on vinyl so I can play it on TH-cam while I hang your record on a wall? Preferably in red vinyl, with the screen on the cover.
This sound great on my Sony MDR-V6 Headphones...Still jammin the same type of headphones to this day like i did back then through my stereo to my C64.Long live the 80"s
I'm a heathen and I listen this on a rare early 2000's Panasonic home cinema set I was lucky enough to have been gifted.
I can understand why headphones are pretty much mandatory, and I am very grateful for these gifts. There are definitely exceptions to headphones and they are definitely rare, but I definitely have one of them.
I first realised it listening to a song from Sting in an older recording of Englishman in New York and I could suddenly hear all the instruments and I had never been able to before in this clarity. I also played Shape of My Heart right after, and now these tunes. And in between a lot of course, like One from Metallica, and I also love Moth from Sound Garden, and I adore CAFO from Animals as Leaders and Close to You from the Carpenters. But this collection is right up there with the classics and epics.
"intended for headphones only." nope, try it on your music system (loud) while lay on couch....... so much things i can see :-D
A pleasure to listen to. :) Thanks for the upload!
This is incredibly fucking awesome. Proves once again that the SID was not even in the same league as its competition. Thumbs up!
Does Robert Yannes know what they were able to achieve with his micro synthesizer?
Lindo demais xD
Great tunes and thanks for the high quality capture for headphones!
Commodore juhu. Für alle, die es noch nicht wissen : Emulatoren und Spiele für moderne PCs gibts legal im Netz:)
This is brilliant.
Thanks for the kinds words. It might be a bit quiet for a while in my channel, as the world of Tyria (Guild Wars 2) has me completely and utterly hooked. But it'll wear off after a while, i hope lol.
Best compilation ..... ever
Great job :)
Great stuff!
Du auch durch sie hier? xD
of course the turracan theme is in this, and it is the best one of all of them
Good stuff!
space journey is out of this world B-)
Great stuff thanks !
klasyk
10:36 - What is the title of game/demo ?
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+Kuokka77
THX !