How To Get The Early 2000s Crusty Audio Quality In Audacity

A Basic Tutorial By ROMHACKD

Getting Started

Have you ever wanted that shitty flash game anime amv music quality? You can hear the compression more than the actual song almost. It's pretty nostalgic. I figured someone should make an easy tutorial for it so here I am. I referenced a bit of this from a response left on this Quora question awhile back. A few steps were added and changed for convenience.

Basic Tutorial

  • open audacity, import an audio file, double click to select the file
  • go to "tracks" then hit "resample", change the sample rate to 11025
  • hit resample again, then change it back to 44100
  • go to the "effect", then "eq and filters", then choose "low pass filter"
  • make sure the frequency is 5512.5 and the roll off is at 24db, then hit apply
  • resample the track to 11025, then back to 44100 again
  • go to "effect", then "volume and compression", then choose "loudness normalization"
  • the default settings should be fine (there's a preview button in case u want to change it), then hit "apply"
  • go to the "effect", then "eq and filters", then choose "high pass filter" and apply
  • then go to the "effect", then "volume and compression", then choose "amplify"
  • you shouldn't amplify it too much, usually 5 to 10 above work best
  • ur done now
  • u can repeat and change steps as need be. higher quality audios as well as wav files may be harder to degrade, therefore i suggest an MP3
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Pub: 20 Aug 2023 17:34 UTC
Edit: 20 Aug 2023 17:58 UTC
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