Converting OctamedSS to MP3

[minator]

KarlOS: The last time I messed with hard drive recording, the end result sounded nothing at all like the song I had just composed. Just noise in fact, and not the noise I was going for.

You think 16-bit samples might have caused this?

Did you record with smoothing on?

All this 16 bit and 44KHz mixing makes for better quality recordings but remove the "Amiga-ness" of the sound.  If that was part of the original you may have inadvertently removed it.

[minator]

If you want actual amiga sound, use 4 channel mode and capture the audio externally.

To me the Amiga sound is what you got on mods back in the late 80's & early 90's.  Back then floppy was the means of transport and being limited size meant mods had to be really squeezed.  The way to do this of course was use samples sampled at around 8KHz.

This meant they were noisy due to quantisation noise from the low frequency and low 8 bits resolution.  However because of the way the Amiga played back samples the noise was in effect retuned for different notes.  This has a musical and very distinctive effect to the sound.  Then there's the impact of analogue components and the characteristics of the DAC as well.

I plan to record with my Amiga at some point and this is what I want to capture. The lo-fi, grungy, but most of all, unique sound of the Amiga.


BTW I believe there was a discussion on the non-lineararities of the Amiga sound O/P at one point.  Is this on line anywhere?