Here we go with another release!
Please be patient as high-res version and torrent download are not coming this week as Haggar is away and will be back next week.
Videos on Youtube will be up soon-ish.
Also, is it me or the Title Theme sounds a lot like the overused “Requiem for a Dream” tune? Go figure.
As always, clicking on the cover will bring you to the download page!
Good listening!
Hi everyone.
Today I stumbled over a video on Youtube which told how Mega Drive/Genesis music inspired and changed somewhat the music industry during late 80s and early 90s.
There are a lot of interviews in this to people that worked on Mega Drive games who tell us their experience and actually how a music was produced back in the day.
Everything is extremely well done: the interviews, the musics, the edit… a great work which throughly deserves to be shared here.
Enjoy the video!
UPDATE: in an effort to make the website look as clean and simple as possible, now there are only the Facebook and Twitter icon links on the top right of the site.
The Youtube and the new Twitch icon and links are available (along with the FB and Twitter ones) in the menu on the left, just below our logo.
As always, a little feedback is greatly appreciated!
Finally I got hold of the last components I needed and we’re ready to record a new release.
That’s been a lot of work!
Meanwhile, I’ve finally set up my Twitch channel and I hope I’ll be starting streaming more or less regularly soon. I want to focus on the Mega CD/Sega CD as I feel that a lot of people didn’t have the chance to get their hands on this awesome add on and missed on a lot of good games.
About the new release, now it’s just a matter of finding a day free to record it, cut it and start sending it to Haggar. Hopefully I’ll manage to do this this weekend – no promises though.
Stay tuned for news and follow us on Facebook to keep updated on what we’re doing!
(sorry about the photo quality, I did this with my mobile phone)
I can’t help it, whenever I have some audio mods to do, I always aim for the best parts.
Wima polypropylene caps are the Gucci of audio components, you really can’t beat them.
How does everything sound? Superb.
Wait and hear…
Hi everyone,
as you already know, our project aims at getting the best audio quality out of our favorite 16-bit games and in an effort to provide you the best sounding soundtracks while maintaining 100% accuracy towards original hardware, today our chain underwent another small but significative step forward:
The European Mega Drive Model 1, VA4, got replaced with a Japanese Mega Drive Model 1, V1.
What’s more, I believe that this MD was hardly used at all as all the components inside were in pristine condition and, as such, we can move another tiny step towards complete accuracy as I won’t need to change capacitors on this one, retaining the original ones.
Audio quality wise, the sound coming out of the VA1 (and VA0 and VA2 for that matter) is cleaner and with a harder hitting bass, although less muffled. This, on the first listen, might mislead the listener into thinking that there’s less bass than our previous MD: this is not true, it’s simply a cleaner and more controlled bass which I’m sure you’ll all come to love.
Anyway, life is not a bowl of cherries: the Japanese VA0, VA1 and VA2 were plagued with a design error in the amplifier section: the gain is too high (well, actually the problem is that the Reference Voltage -Vref- is too high) and due to this loud games might sound a bit distorted. This becomes quite evident in tracks that have a predominant bass line such as Boss 1 in Sonic 3D.
While a bit of background noise/hiss is tolerable, distortion is not welcome in our prestigious audiophile family, and as such I’ll make a small mod to lower the reference voltage thus fixing the distortion problem (I just need to put a bigger resistor, that’s pretty much it, no big deal).
EDIT: actually Vref is ok, it seems that the signal is too strong when getting into the amplifier chip. Thanks to the guys over at sega-16, especially Ace who came up with the fix in the first place!
This also mean that tomorrow I won’t be able to record a new release which will get shifted to the next week.
Also, I do believe this is the right moment to talk about the Remasters I wanted to do: our recording chain underwent a lot of changes and we’ve got really far since the first release, Sonic 2.
At this point I feel the urge to start doing these remasters as the quality have changed quite a bit and I was thinking of modifying our release schedule this way:
Most voted request -> Oldest request -> Most voted -> Oldest -> Remaster -> Most voted -> etc…
Every two cycles I’ll put a remaster in so that requests will also have priority.
Oh, and from now on, if you want you can also request a Remaster!
Just put it this way in the request thread:
[REMASTER] Game name
so I’ll immediately recognize it and when the time comes to release a remaster, I’ll take the most voted one.
And that’s pretty much it, maybe I’ll post some photos of the new Mega Drive later and update our Equipment page!
Stay tuned!!
Most of you will probably be like “what the hell happened?!?!?” and I can’t really blame you for it.
The restyling completely inverted the color scheme and now we have a clean, pure snow white background with easy-on-the-eye dark grey text.
Also, gone are the cluttered menu, the giant banner and other unaesthetical things.
A quick heads up on how to find your way around the new website:
Still, everything is new and pretty much untested.
If you find something which doesn’t work or have suggestions on making the website more pleasant, please let me know in the Forum or at [email protected]
Thank you for sticking with us and hopefully I’ll be recording a new release next week!