cuthbert84

Thanks for sharing Laserschwert!  I'm glad other people can hear them!

If we're talking about submitting lossless audio for the blu-rays, I know a new isolated music track was created for Star Wars, but I've already conformed my isomix tracks for Empire and Jedi, if there's interest.  For Empire, in addition to the isolated score, I created a third audio track that mixes in the unused music with the '93 laserdisc audio, so there's music throughout almost the entire film.  I've also updated the Jedi isolated music track to include the sail barge music.  (Ripped from the surround channels of the 2004 DVD.) 

Joel said:

 

Having never listened to the isolated center channel of the DTS Master Audio from the Blu-Ray - can someone verify that the music is present?

Audio Post guy here.  You are correct in theory, but even if the CD is the same take that was used in the films, different EQ settings, CD mastering, even the compression of an ac3 file will render the inverting phase experiment useless, I'm sorry to say.  That needs to be sample accurate to work.  Sometimes when the music is really low and bass heavy in a scene you can just EQ it out, but for the hologram scene, the notes live right in the vocal range.  

I checked the Star Wars soundboard, but it doesn't have the lines you want. It does have tons of other lines though, in case that might help for another scene.

http://starwars.com/play/online-activities/soundboards/#/?theme=06

P.S.  Also a good idea on stealing the dialogue from the center channel.  I did just the opposite trick when I stole the sail barge music from Jedi for the isomix track.  

P.P.S.  How about if you summed the music from the stereo Left Right channels to a mono track, (which should be dialogue free) inverted the phase on THAT and played it with the center channel? Worth a shot?  It probably won't eliminate the music 100% but it might dip it enough so that if you had other music playing it could mask it. 

UPDATE:  I decided to try that trick.  Didn't work at all.

Thanks for the suggestion!  I'll send you a pm when it's ready.  Hopefully this weekend.

Hello.  I just happened to come across this thread.  Years ago I made my own laserdisc transfers of the trilogy and created isolated music tracks for them which ended up being called the ISOMIX discs.  I've been updating them periodically since then, and they now match Harmy's latest De-specialized versions.  I have 4 different tracks:

1) Star Wars - Isolated Music - Matches film and includes deleted Music from Trash Compactor scene

2) The Empire Strikes Back - (mostly) Matches film with extra music.  For example, it has the unused music for the Luke/Darth Vader lightsaber duel.  The original Isomix disc did not.  It doesn't match the film in instances like the scene where Boba Fett escapes with Han.  In the original mix, the music was edited to end as the ship flew away, which is how I edited it in the original ISOMIX release.  In the updated version, it plays as originally scored - continuously into the second Luke/Vader lightsaber battle.

3) TESB - Full Mix with extra cues. - This uses the THX laserdisc audio (digitally captured) and mixes in the unused music cues into the full mix. Examples - the entire opening introducing Han and Chewie, the Luke/Vader fight, the introduction of Yoda, etc.

4) ROTJ - Isolated Music - Matches the film as much as possible, with some extra cues, like the scene where Ben fills in the backstory on Anakin while in Dagobah.  I've heard another isolated score track, (I think it's Editdroid, but I'm not certain) that used unreleased music during the Jabba scenes.  Mine is edited to match the movie as closely as possible.  Recent updates also include a version of Lapti-Nek that's much closer to the theatrical version and the Sail Barge music taken from the 2004 Dvds.  (These were ripped from the rear channels, so they're pretty heavily futzed.)

If there's interest, I can bounce down uncompressed 48k wav files some time this weekend.  I'd appreciate help on how to share files of this size, though.