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- Downsampled stuff can sound much better if pre-treated with
- signal processing techniques.
- These would be dynamic compression and gentle high-end boost.
- If you folks have analog compressor or comp-limiter,
- and a parametric EQ, you can do this in analog.
- (I don't have nice effect code yet for these.)
-
- 16-bits to 8-bits:
- Dynamic compression pushes quieter signal detail from bits 8-10
- up into bits 0-7, so that when you throw away bits 8-15, you
- have a little more signal.
-
- Lowering the sampling rate:
- A gentle high-end boost will accentuate what high end you have
- left after changing the sampling rate. That is, by boosting
- your "new" low high end, you imply the "old" higher high end
- which is now gone.
-
- Noise
- talk about masking noise.
-