No bass in (some? all?) games' music

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. open Ultima Exodus in FCE Ultra GX
2. open same rom in PC version
3. listen for lack of low end in title screen music

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
it seems as though a low pass filter is in effect perhaps? basically the 
higher-end twiddling music is playing, but the low end bassy 'bum bum bum' 
music is not. thats a terrible explanation i know but hopefully it makes 
sense.

I know that it has sounded correct in previous versions of FCEUGX, but 
since the sound crackling problem has been in the process of being fixed, 
I've noticed this has come up. I know the problem exists in 2.04 and 2.07, 
but I believe versions before 2.04 were fine. I don't have them to test 
with again though.

there may be other games with the same issue, I just happened to know this 
game really well and so noticed the lack of bass quickly when i started the 
rom

What version of the product are you using?
2.07

Please provide any additional information below.
love all your widescreen user fixes and the lack of crackle! other than 
this minor thing I can't imagine needing anything else! great work all 
around =)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by theother...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 3:35

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low-pass filter is disabled in this version, and anyway, low-pass means that 
high
frequencies are cut, but bass are generally low-frequency sounds

maybe this is because lowpass is disabled and high-frequency sounds somehow 
cover
those bass, I don't know

Or this might be due the sound emulation quality, it was 0 (low) before, now is 
set
to 1: this should increase sound emulation accuracy but you never know, some
filtering is probably done as well

anyway, this is far over our head and would require good knowledge of the NES 
sound
chip, best solution is still to provide a way to change the settings upon user 
request

you can try changing the settings in the PC version to see what suits best, I'd 
say
that LowPass enabled and SoundQuality set to max wil provide the most accurate
emulation... with obviously increased CPU requirment

Original comment by ekeeke31@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 4:43

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Basically, the sound is as good as it's gonna get. Not much more we can do.

Original comment by dborth@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 4:47

• Changed state: WontFix