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I always thought that drum sound was on purpose. I kind of liked the way it sounded.


Yeah, I'm fairly sure this was entirely intentional. Fits the futuristic western sounds nicely.


Intentional or otherwise, the waveform certainly clips— you can see it in any audio editor, eg: http://imgur.com/a/WacOy

Since the drums sounds all started life as hi-fi samples, the detail is certainly there in the original Logic sessions. It would be an interesting experiment to do a listening test comparing the CD versions of the tracks against versions mastered with more headroom, either less loudly or to a 64-bit format.

It may well be that a certain degree of the grunge is artistic versus technical, but I suspect that in a blind test I would still prefer a version with slightly less muddy drums.


It also fits quite well with where those tracks typically play during the game.




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