I made an album available on floppy disk

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Originally Posted by Answer

peeped the whole thing, first one's my fav. It's definitely something I can imagine an indie/backpack rapper doing something introspective over. I do feel like I can tell a difference in the floppy version on some of them, especially with the drums on the first one. The last one definitely sounds the same in both to me. Either way, it definitely has those retro zelda snes music vibes but sounds like better quality to me

not really sure what you mean by mixing the tracks to emulate compression though. How do you do this? Is it a VST/plugin that adds lofi effects to it? I know it affects the overall quality of the instrument, but I've never considered whether or not it actually reduces/compresses the file size of the overall project unless its just saved at a lower compression rate

Appreciate it my guy

There are dedicated sound plug-ins for this (I think I used mda degrade a few times) but most of it is good old fashioned EQ and bandpass. It doesn't actually reduce the size of the file (the data is still there in a sense) but it sounds like you did.

The second half is all actually compressed, just by using audacity to export an mp3 with absurdly low sampling rate. Knowing how that sort of file sounded informed the mixing in the first half, so it kind of cut out what was already going to be cut in some cases.