Battle Garegga MAME audio improvement
I was listening to the music in the Battle Garegga test menu, because it's probably the best STG soundtrack there is, and I noticed some serious clipping.
I then turned the Ch. 0 and Ch. 1 settings in the tilde menu down to 50%, and turned my speakers up to compensate, and waited for the loud part of the stage 5 theme to start. Amazing improvement in clarity! It sounds like live music instead of lofi tape recording.
I don't know how much clipping you get on the real hardware (probably some because FM synth has loud transients sometimes), so this might not be improving emulation accuracy, but turned down to 50% I couldn't hear any clipping at all. Highly recommended, especially to those who get annoyed at "loudness war" audio mastering.
Probably clipping is present in other emulated FM synth games too but I haven't checked.
I then turned the Ch. 0 and Ch. 1 settings in the tilde menu down to 50%, and turned my speakers up to compensate, and waited for the loud part of the stage 5 theme to start. Amazing improvement in clarity! It sounds like live music instead of lofi tape recording.
I don't know how much clipping you get on the real hardware (probably some because FM synth has loud transients sometimes), so this might not be improving emulation accuracy, but turned down to 50% I couldn't hear any clipping at all. Highly recommended, especially to those who get annoyed at "loudness war" audio mastering.
Probably clipping is present in other emulated FM synth games too but I haven't checked.