zfnchris Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 (edited) The in-game music in Skyrim is compressed to standards inferior to the cassette tape, and not a mastered cassette tape but a recording of a song on the radio onto cassette tape on a cheap boombox.In all seriousness, the average track in-game has a frequency cutoff at the 11,000 range. Sometimes I've seen peaks at 13,000.There is a considerable amount of sound between 11,000 and 18,000. Most of us can hear 16,000 with average headphones, which is a frequency area that is completely gone in the in-game release. This leaves the in-game music completely without any treble and causes loud segments like the main theme with the choir to sound extremely muffled.In some songs with treble heavy instruments, you don't even know they were there until listening to the CD release. It's pretty pathetic, and my guess is that it was to save HDD space, but MP3 could have protected all that treble and delivered the same small file size.Anyway, I'd be interested in swapping them out, has anyone done this before? Edited May 5, 2013 by zfnchris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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