Vagrant Story Remastered OST

If that's the case, I need to buy this right away. That is, after hearing some samples to see if it's good.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I want to hear what the remastered Wyvern and Tieger and Neesa sound like.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Eh... some of the songs sound better, but a great many of them sound stiff and artificial. There's no reverb and it seems like an attempt was made to make it easier to hear each individual instrument. But to me, this was to the the detriment of the whole. It just doesn't sound natural. It sounds like in-game MIDI.

And what's with the abrupt transition in Truth? It's buttery smooth in the original.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I never had any trouble deciphering any of the compositions. And the sounds of some of my favorite songs were completely changed. Take Rosencrantz for example. It's almost a completely different song!

Overall, I like the original mix more.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well, that was a little bit of hyperbole on my part, but you know what I mean.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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The original had a distinct echo and faded effect, making the final product sound almost like the music had been put through a concert hall sound filter.

Yes. In the original, many of the songs sounded like they really could have been played by an orchestra, especially tracks like Wyvern and Ifrit, but now, they just sound empty and lifeless, and it's much more obvious that the music is made up of sampled instruments.

Edit: I just loaded one of the songs (Wyvern) into Cool Edit and it has quite a few clipped sections. (Or sections that are close to clipping). That is bad mastering, folks! I guess they really tried to maximize the loudness of this one. The original Wyvern doesn't have any clipped sections. Some of them come very close, but the shape of the waveform is still preserved.

Edit 2: On further inspection, there isn't any actual clipping in this song, but the overall loudness is greater than the original, and quite a few sections push it right to the limit. (As far as you can possibly go without getting a flat peak.).

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

The next track, LeaMonde Town Center, has a ton of audible defects in the sound, and the bass isn't nearly as punchy when it comes in. The piano also benefits from the long reverb trails, giving it that otherworldly feel I loved about it.

Haw! There is clipping in that one, I saw my peak indicator light up. I wouldn't be surprised if there are many more in other songs. It isn't as bad as some pop music I've seen, but still, it's bad form to have done it at all, in my opinion. (Edit: Oh no they didn't. Truth is completely manlged! And the best part of the song too. The rest of the song doesn't sound too good either. The ethereal quality is completely lost.)



The original has two clipped samples in the whole song. For the remastered version, the clipping indicator was lighting up like a christmas tree.

For those of you who haven't downloaded the new album yet, just listen to this "After and Before" clip. Terrible, ne?

FELIPE NO

Tin-eared? Deaf is more like it! Although perhaps it could be your crappy speakers. The newer tracks have significantly less reverb and different loudness levels than the old ones, and the instruments have been equalized differently. Using my Shure IEMs, or even my Grados, I can hear the difference easily, and I'm certainly no audiophile. Hell, I don't even own an amplifier.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?