I'm wondering if any of the modders have any tips on procedures or effects to use to make a new song sound like an older lower quality recording? Specifically in Audacity (cause that's all I've got access to :laugh: )

You might want to look at the beginnings or ends of old recordings to see if you can get some of that audio "cackle" and "pop" to layer onto the newer tracks. The other problem though is just that the singing style and instrumentation is really different these days. Worth a shot though, I'm sure there are more tricks out there.

looping the anolog pops and cracks is a good strategy, but make sure you get the levels right so it's not overbearing. Also, selectively applying some bandpass filters should do the rest. Those old recordings sound so old-timey in part because of the lack of fidelity. Just like to get the "store loudspeaker" sound from any recording, you can just cut anything over 8 kHz off and anything below ~125 hz, to simulate cheap speakers.

Just as a guess, I would apply a 7 kHz low pass filter, with full attenuation kicking in around 8k, and do a high pass filter around 100 Hz. Lastly, downsample it to mono and 22 kHz fidelity, maybe even 11 kHz.

Oooh I'm gonna try and understand/find all that stuff and give it a go. Thanks for the info.

I don't know about Audacity, but all of that is pretty easy to do in Adobe Audition (or even the old Cool Edit Pro 2)

Initially, I used the telephon effect plugin for Audacity, but regardless of what setting I chose it severely degraded the sound such that the songs became virtually inaudible (strange that this seemed to work just fine when I was using it to edit MP3s for FO3). So I googled for "Audacity AMRadio" and found some links on how to adjust the equalization, and it seems to work ok (not great, just ok).