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I am testing an AWE32, with two 16MB 30-pin SIMMs. I've loaded in the 28MB Chorium sound font in to the SIMMs within Windows 98, and it makes Doom sound quite good. I recorded a minute of it, here. The AWE32 control panel was set to Hall 1, Chorus 1, and the treble was on the "+2 notch".
The recording was set up so the music would sound OK, but not the sound effects. This is because of recording clipping in Audacity, as the effects volume was too loud. Otherwise, the effects themselves sound good on this CT3990 model - perhaps the most impressive out of all of the SB variants I have tested, including SB16, AWE32, and AWE64.
The CT3990 is disliked by some because it does not have a real OPL3 chip. IMHO however, the slightly clearer output makes up for this deficiency, and if you've got another SB variant such as a SB16 CT2800 for instance, then you could use that on an older rig, for older games that need to sound good with an OPL3 chip.
I found the SIMMs very difficult to install. The reason is because the SIMMs are fractionally too wide for the SIMM holders on the AWE32. I spent about 10 minutes trying to force them into the sockets! I tried various other smaller capacity SIMMs, such as 1MB, and they were easy to insert.
