Tracks 02-07 & Eng2 are based on EB soundtrack, with RMS volume level matched vs original tracks. People who can't hear any difference between original SS2 songs and SHMUP.Īll tracks are raw 44.100 kHz, 16-bit PCM WAVE data. I remade those ambients (namely 02-07 & Eng2), fixing the gain factors, for everybody to have a playing experience most consistent with original one - and with developer's intentions too - as far as my e-mail correspondence with Robotkid and analysis of the samples in the tracks goes.Ī) vanilla players, expecting in-game soundtrack matching the original one perfectly, albeit with less noise and higher fidelity, Still, all ambient tracks gained much with hiss removal and, usually, no clipping occurring (there was mild clipping in original songs). Also, changes made to some songs (Eng1, Command 1) seem just bad to me. not only did Shatten forget about dynamics matching, resulting in much louder soundtrack with unequalized volume between songs, and with much dynamic lost due to acoustic compression with too high gain ratio on some songs (well, that one thing is not exactly his fault, as it's just how the EB tracks used by him as the source were produced) the main problem is that ADPCM 4-bit compression with 22kHz sampling gave most of the upbeat tracks a distinct, crispy EQ, which the 'studio' soundtrack doesn't have (many oldschool DnB DJs downsample songs just to make them feel more vinyl-y). * SS2 VSR v1.0 - why another Music Update Mod?Īfter listening to SHMUP, I got really disappointed. SS2 Songs as they were meant to be - HQ CD-quality tracks sticking as close to the original SS2 soundtrack as possible.

System shock 2 mod tool