How long is the gap between sides? And how does it start, does the recording start before the drumroll or does it begin abruptly after the movie has already started? Here's an idea I just had while lying in bed this morning and inspired by Davnes' post:

1: if the movie starts before the recording, go ahead and leave silence until the recording starts, abruptly kicking in with the sound. Otherwise just start at the Fox fanfare as normal, using a quick fade-in if the crowd noise starts too abruptly (you could leave extra seconds or minutes of crowd noise beforehand, but then it wouldn't sync up with anything that didn't also have those seconds or minutes of blank at the beginning.)

2: side 1 plays raw, unless it has to be tweaked in order to keep sync. And even then, a little bit of drift might be acceptable, but certainly wouldn't want too much.

3: at the end of side 1, do a quick fade out to a very very quiet background of the same audio track as what's depicted on the tape (very quiet). Or you could just leave it dead silent, but I was thinking something like when you watch a commentary track on DVD and they shut up for a minute, you can still sort of hear what's going on in the background.

4a: (optional, depending on time available) Narrator's voice saying something like "flip cassette over and begin playing side B now."

4b: sound effects of tape being flipped over and restarted. (background soundtrack could go silent when you "press play," until the recorded audio kicks back in.)

5: side 2 begins abruptly, no fade-in.

6: fade out right at the end if the tape goes on beyond the end of the movie. Otherwise let it stop abruptly if the tape cuts off before the credits are over. Could add sound effects here of an LP hitting its run-out groove until the end, if you didn't care about authenticity.

Well you could do it in lossless wav or flac format, then people could convert to whatever other form they want. Otherwise, ac3 seems pretty popular as the raw format for DVD audio. What does Blu-Ray use, same, or something else? As for what we'd be doing with it, I don't know about anyone else, but personally I would prefer a GOUT-timed sync so that I could (after I learn how, I figure it can't be too hard) add it as an additional audio track in Harmy's DeEd. 

There are other audience recording out there, if I remember correctly. Can't those be used to fill in the gaps? Might even be worth a shot to create a combination of all the audience recordings, picking the biggest reactions of each one to make one track that's actually more lively...

Format wise, would it be possible to use different recordings for a front/back split? That way it would sound like the audience is actually all around you, and you're sitting amongst them.

How's this little beauty progressing?

dR

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Could you send me a PM too ? :-)

Pm sent also :)

Thanks a lot to everyone involved. It's gonna be interesting to hear this one.

I'd love to hear this rare piece of star wars history - PM sent :)

Another PM sent - thanks!

I'd love to hear this as well, thanks for making this available! 

Oh wow this sounds absolutely amazing! Surprised at the clarity/sound quality actually! That Nakamichi deck is obviously well aligned and getting the most from this tape - best tape decks ever made. Amazing to think this is an actual in-audience recording from way back. You can sense the enjoyment and awe of the audience! A superb slice of film history - A huge THANK YOU to all involved :)

Love the reaction when R2 gets zapped haha!

Back to the listening!

- 7FN

P.S. I'd LOVE George Lucas to hear this :p

I would like to have a listen to this very much please!!