Then I’d load up the next sound and repeat the process! I also needed to do this with every instrument sound in my synths and samplers, to match each one I used for the handful of tunes I needed to recreate. After hours on the hunt for that, I would eventually find it and have the new, better version. I had to pull up an original game file sound effect, and then guess where the source elements for it might be within the tons of CDs in my arsenal. These were more suitable for modern sound and yet were consistent with the rest of the game sounds that did still hold up. There simply wasn’t a lot a weapon library material to choose from unless you went and recorded it yourself in the early ’90s, but 25 years later I had access to other, newer high-quality sounds with the same characteristics. The only handful of sounds that really showed their age were mostly those used for weapons and explosions. I still had the old sound libraries from which we had pulled a lot of the original source material, so I was able to use the high-quality versions or re-create the sounds from the source elements as I spotted them.

If you missed Frank’s previous post, you can read it here. In this installment of guest blogger Frank Klepacki’s series on music production Frank continues his three-part series on remastering the audio for Command & Conquer. Frequency-agile True Diversity UHF Wireless Systems

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