Retro-Fi Transforms Rihanna Into Etta James with Vintage AM Effects

Something to reflect on – today, some of our greatest technology is being used to make music sound as if it was being played on inferior technology with terrible sound quality. On purpose. Interesting times we live in. If you have a craving for the old AM radio sound, download Retro-Fi for any iOS device. You can stream your music collection through the app, which will faithfully recreate 1950s radio sound quality – so, bad quality. Frequency and dynamic range are decreased to their pre-digital levels. There are also two sliders – ambience and static. Ambience makes it sound like other frequencies are intruding on your music, while static, well, adds static.

You can go (really) retro for $0.99 off the iTunes App Store – Retro-Fi is exclusively available on iOS devices.