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The sound of melcom - Classics
🔊 Album Info:
We celebrate the 1st year of www.melcom-music.de ✨🎈🎧
This album contains a small collection of tracks from my demoscene time. All tracks have been "slightly" revised. I made sure (hopefully) that they didn't lose their old charm when I edited the MOD files.
In addition, the tracks were not simply edited. No, I use the original trackers of that time to edit the MOD files. For the AudioFiles (wav / mp3) I then used different VST plugins & mastering tools. Exactly what they were is described below.
Do not expect a newly mastered album! The titles have been changed only slightly, stereo effects have been improved, and I have tried to correct some old mistakes. Some tracks were edited more than others. For example, Space Invaders 2.2 became a Special Edition because it deviated too much from the original.
I must thank SagaMusix.de for his patience with me. You have been - as always - a true friend to me during this time!
What have I actually changed / what is new?
I did my job quite well (I think). But then there are also special things, I had to use tricks to make the sample or the instrument sound better. Many samples sind well over 20 years old or even older. I was also VERY inexperienced at that time. Besides, as a teenager I never had a good sound system. By the way; OpenMPT was a very big help for me in editing the samples! It is really a masterful tool.
- In every single MOD file I tried to improve the samples. For example to remove a crackle.
- Various loops innerhalb different samples have been improved.
- In some tracks new passages (patterns / channels) have been added.
- Many patterns / channels were revised. In really every track something was added or changed! You may not hear this sometimes, but I assure you, these places are there 😊
- And if too much of the song changed, it became a special edition or extended version.
- NO sample has been replaced with a sample from today!
Tools I used to rework all tracks:
Trackers:
- Impulse Tracker (Thanks to DOSBox 😊)
- Scream Tracker (DosBox)
- Schism Tracker (Thanks to Storlek (and the other contributors) for this great tool.)
- OpenMPT (Thanks go to SagaMusix.de for all your help and tips)
Audio Software:
- OceanAudio (Powerful audio editor with VST plugin support)
VST-Plugins:
- TP Basslane (Uhhh ... nice)
- TDR VOS SlickEQ (My favorite mastering tool)
- Electri-Q (powerful EQ)
- Ozone Imager V2 (Stereo Imaging Plug-in)
But now ... have fun with these really old classics 👾