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Old 26 October 2019, 21:54   #857
Bruce Abbott
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Originally Posted by 8bitbubsy View Post
The hiss you hear (especially on bass or low-amp samples) is basically errors in the quantization rounding. In my opinion it doesn't show the "rawness" of the sample, instead it's just a bunch of errors you wouldn't want to hear, but the noisefloor of 8-bit PCM is really high so yeah, that happens...
It's noticeable if the sample is recorded with too low sample rate, or if samples are mixed at too low volume.

With samples recorded at full volume the dynamic range should be at least as good as cassette tape, and with their playback volume controlled by Paula it's even better. If you can hear quantization noise it's probably due to poor samples or a bad player.
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