Glad you like 'em... I've got more sample packs comming in the future, so keep an eye out for them in here
... next batch will most likely be a collection of everything Daglish'.
I try to use a SID chip that most closely resemble what the artist originaly made their SID's on... especialy because of the filter, so for those Hubbard samples the last time, I used a revision 2 SID most of the time, since this is what it seemed that Hubbard used himself... a tune like Tarzan for example, og Dragon's lair sounds bad when using a more recent R3 or R4AR SID because of the filter... the melody of those specific tunes almost dies out totaly in the higher registers because of the filter, but on the R2 it sounds just right... basslines certainly sound different.
One thing I did not mention is, that both sample packs has been put through a hipassfilter at 30Hz with a 18db slope, simply to filter out all of that subbass content that is usualy present in the SID's initializing of it's sound engine... that "thump" has been carefuly removed to avoid clicks and thumps... also this allowed for the samples to gain a bit more level, as the lowfreq content sucked a lot of headroom right out of the sounds. This way you save the time and effort of placing a highpas filter yourself
A good tip when using the samples is to enhance them in some way... kicks can for example benefit A LOT from som lowend boost, as most kick drums on C64 is usualy quite boring. I did not do this on the samples themselves... you have to do something yourself too
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Also, I'm using the HardSID 4U Studio Edition hardware for playing back the SID's when recording... seems to be the best out there for this purpose.
