Amiga Paula Sound vs Emulation

 

This simple test will compare some games soundtracks recorded straight out of an Amiga 500 and the famous WINUAE emulator on modern PC.

 

TEST A AGONY: This test simply compares 2 recording from the game AGONY released in 1992 by Psygnosis. The selected soundtrack is the right before the famous piano intro by Tim Wright. RECORDINGS INFO: -AMIGA: the original soundtrack has been analog recorded straight out of an Amiga 500 stereo cinch to a RME Fireface at 44 kHz / 16 bits with no gain. Note that the Amiga filter is disabled -PC EMULATOR: the emulated soundtrack has been digitally dump from software emulator WINUAE out of a quadcore PC, low pass filter emulation is disabled and no further dithering process - settings at at standard 44 kHz / 16 bits. A- AMIGA 500 recording B- WINUAE EMULATION recording     A/B WAVEFORM A/B SPECTRAL MY 2 CENTS about this test: Agony uses very high quality samples, consequently It is quite difficult

TEST B: Shadow of the Beast, classic from 1989 (psygnosis) music by David Whittaker RECORDINGS INFO: -AMIGA: the original soundtrack has been analog recorded straight out of an Amiga 3000 stereo cinch to a RME Fireface at 44 kHz / 24 bits with no gain. Note that the Amiga LPF filter is disabled. -PC EMULATOR: the emulated soundtrack has been digitally dump from software emulator WINUAE out of a Intel I7 PC, low pass filter emulation is disabled and no further dithering process - settings at 44 kHz / 24 bits. SEE UAE SOUND CONFIG A- AMIGA 3000 recording B- WINUAE EMULATION recording     A/B WAVEFORM A/B SPECTRAL MY 2 CENTS about this test: The PC sounds is much more emphasized on high frequencies

 

TEST C: Lost Patrol (Ocean) released in 1989 music by Jonathan Dunn RECORDINGS INFO: -AMIGA: the original soundtrack has been analog recorded straight out of an Amiga 3000 stereo cinch to a RME Fireface at 44 kHz / 24 bits with no gain. Note that the Amiga filter is disabled. -PC EMULATOR: the emulated soundtrack has been digitally dump from software emulator WINUAE out of a I7 PC, low pass filter emulation is disabled and no further dithering process - settings at 44 kHz / 24 bits. SEE UAE SOUND CONFIG A- AMIGA 3000 recording B- WINUAE EMULATION recording     A/B WAVEFORM A/B SPECTRAL