Console
SPU rate reduction, true 4-bit ADPCM grain, and freeze-stutter hiccups.
Real '90s console audio: SPU-style Gaussian rate reduction on top, a true 4-bit ADPCM encode in the middle, and a small dark ambience that grows as the fidelity falls. Full stereo. It is less about destruction than that soft, rounded, slightly haunted game-soundtrack glow.
- Amount
- Drops the internal rate from 32 kHz toward 11 kHz, closes the lowpass from 12 kHz toward 4.5 kHz, and raises the built-in ambience (about 8% to 22%).
- Tone
- Scales the lowpass by ×0.7 to ×1.6, from murky to surprisingly open.
- Noise
- A quiet digital hiss bed.
- Dropouts
- Emulator hiccups: freezes with a slight pitch drop, and stutters.
Loading screen
- Amount
- 60%
- Tone
- 50%
- Noise
- 10%
- Dropouts
- 0%
- Mix
- 100%
Pads and keys turn into a 32-bit soundtrack.
Corrupted save
- Amount
- 80%
- Tone
- 45%
- Noise
- 15%
- Dropouts
- 45%
- Mix
- 100%
Freeze-and-stutter breakdown. Ride Dropouts live for the fills.
SPU sheen
- Amount
- 35%
- Tone
- 65%
- Noise
- 0%
- Dropouts
- 0%
- Mix
- 55%
Parallel retro gloss. The built-in ambience does the work.
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