crissrudd4554 said:
Ryan-SWI said:
Tallguy said:
(with the mono soundtrack for Star Wars).
Is there a reason for this? Genuinely interested, I actually still haven’t properly sat through Harmy’s edits in full or looked into them too much.
Not my video but this video does show some examples between the mono and stereo mixes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXpcYcZNDw
Ben Burtt said in an interview that at the time they purposely added and changed more things in the mono mix because at the time they thought it would become the default mix. Keep in mind many major studio films as well as most if not all television programming was still being mixed in mono at the time so this wasn’t necessarily a dumb decision on their part. But low and behold they reverted to the stereo mix for the video releases and it’s only in recent years through these fan edits and preservations that fans have been able to discover this very rare and different mono mix.
Thanks for the link. There are many things about the mono mix that I just like. For one thing, I’m 99% certain that this was the mix that I heard in 1977. (I saw it four times, but I was eight!) I vividly remember “Close the blast doors” and I remember the audience laughing at “Open the blast doors!” I don’t remember Beru sounding the way she does in mono at all, but it is a much more natural sounding dub then the terrible dub in stereo. There are a few beeps and boops that sound much more like what I remember from the cinema. (When they turn on the Falcon’s targeting computer in the TIE fighter attack is one.) The Death Star voice (“The death star will be in firing range…”) sounds bad-ass. Just a guy doing his job. I miss the radio filter on the rebel pilots, but ah well.
Oh, and Luke says “Blast it WEDGE where are you?” right after Wedge says he’s on his way. In stereo he’s asking after Biggs. What, Wedge isn’t good enough for you, farm boy?
Funny thing about the blast doors. When the SE came out and restored “Close the blast doors” I had very mixed feelings. I was glad the line was back but it sounded wrong. Like they had used a different take or something. Last year I found out that The Story of Star Wars record (which I played into the ground in 1978) used the mono. And it used exactly that take! So much for my amazing memory!