THE OT SOUNDTRACKS SALVAGE - SWESBROTJ -"remastered"(so far)+ LP's (Released) — Page 2

Just thought I'd share my thoughts on the sets...

ANH sounded a lot... softer. The trumpets for instance were a lot less harsh than on all the official soundtracks. Somehow it seemed you managed to dial down the harshness of the brass whilst upping the strings and other sections, don't know how you managed it but it's brilliant!

As for ESB, I personally thought that there wasn't much wrong with the Anthology or even the Sony releases and as it's my favourite score I'm pretty happy about that! I mean, there's not that much channel flipping, the background noise isn't that bad at all, and the instrument sections all seem nice and equal. Even so, your remastered version did seem to bring it that little bit more to life so I thank you dearly for that!

And ROTJ had the most noticeable change, you could just hear the music so much clearer! The field of music is so narrow on all the official soundtracks but on these remastered scores it's much much wider, great stuff!

Honestly, download these, there worth it! :D

Nice review, Beatho! I'll add one once I'm done listening, too.

Haaa !!! Beatho, you just made my day !... :)

I was still wondering if I reached the goal I intented - and pretended to - with these remasters. Indeed  you're the very first one to let me know about ANH and ESB ! :)

Not that I wasn' t confident in my work, but perception can be very different from a person to another. Anyway you just confirmed you get my way to deal with these scores and that is the essential to me ! ;)

Yeah, I like to hear feedback on things, too. No ego trip indeed, especially as some comments can be very helpful. I need to move some stuff around and off my computer, but maybe after that, I'll start listening. :)

Well I was just putting down my thoughts.

Yea feedback is very good, I personally will be much more inclined to download something that's had some sort of feedback than none at all. And being a distributor of my own work myself I know that it's always nice to know that your work is appreciated

And if it helps spread the sets, it's worth it! =)

By any chance is 7FN going to do a vinyl transfer of return of the jedi?

I am still totally dissapointed to this day that no double LP with a nice booklet was ever produced for Jedi.  Empire Strikes Back is awsome in that regard.

Jedi always seems to get the shaft, No CAV laserdisc release, no double LP and so on.

Also the quality of the recordings made available to the consumers and general public for Jedi's soundtrack sound muffled and low quality.  Why can't Lucas have those original masters transfered as audiophile quality CD.

I guess they don't care because nobody cares about quality anymore.  We have traded quality for convenience of mp3 ipod and itunes.  Nobody can tell that something sounds like shit on a tiny portable device with crappy headphones and massive compression. Nobody can tell the clipping done on the remastered CD in 1997 once compressed down to crap mp3 can they?

The parade of ewoks from the anthology box set. I just liked it alot so I had to add it to your set. I still love the set a whole lot great sound I can hear things better and the brass section actually sounds like brass and not some muted horns like the anthology. You did a good job with the trilogy.

After I started using flac files I can tell a big difference. Mp3s have a wavering muzzeled sound on certain frequencies. That is why I still use a cd player. I am an audiophile so I look for those sounds.  I cant stand when I buy a cd (metallicas new album) and it sounds distorted. Louder is not better. I love vinyl for the shear fact that you can tweak the sound right on the turntable. I mean you have the full equalizer depending on what you got.  Cd players and Ipods are basically Bass on Bass off Volume that is it. I always look for a stereo that has an equalizer. Thank god i still have my sharp from 92 that has its own turntable.

Ok I promise to make a Feedback here. I didnt have the chance before.

I dont have to mention the quality of the sound... ;)

I really impressed by ROTJ which as others described is/was the most problematic. Th sound now is crystal and i heard tones and sounds that before were hidden.

In Some places the trumpets were a bit crisp. I re calibated my speakers and they sounded Ace!

A big surprise was teh radio drama music which was unknown (thank you for that)

I liked the new spaces/pauses between the tracks.

I d like though each file has the proper naming and not only the track number instead.

Nothing to add/remember for now.

A big thanks that gave us this superb version!

-Angel

ABC i have to say excellent work. YES I MEAN YOU.

A New Hope sounded more like it did on the movie 5/5

Empire was amazing my favorite songs were given justice Carbon Freeze to Departure of Boba Fett now we can hear the cellos THANKS 5/5 just for that

ROTJ I hated every release of it but man You made it fit in with the rest of the trilogy 7/5

EyeShotFirst said:

I cant stand when I buy a cd (metallicas new album) and it sounds distorted. Louder is not better.

I haven't really heard that album yet, but just about every review I ever hear about complains about the sound quality, which is a shame. Maybe some talented editor will take a stab at it. ;) Think it could be done, based on what you hear? (if it's simply too loud and gets distorted/farty, maybe nothing can be done about it) I wouldn't be surprised if they release a remastered/fixed version someday.

Ripplin said:

EyeShotFirst said:

I cant stand when I buy a cd (metallicas new album) and it sounds distorted. Louder is not better.

I haven't really heard that album yet, but just about every review I ever hear about complains about the sound quality, which is a shame. Maybe some talented editor will take a stab at it. ;) Think it could be done, based on what you hear? (if it's simply too loud and gets distorted/farty, maybe nothing can be done about it) I wouldn't be surprised if they release a remastered/fixed version someday.

 

not to get too off topic here, but that Metallica album had a different (read: much better) mastering for the video game "Guitar Hero" (I think it was that game).  Anyway, there were fan-rips of this floating around.  And Metallica (read: Lars) claimed that it was bullshit, and they wouldn't release another version of the album

To veer back on topic... I am really looking forward to listening to this set.  Sounds amazing.

ThrowgnCpr said:

Ripplin said:

EyeShotFirst said:

I cant stand when I buy a cd (metallicas new album) and it sounds distorted. Louder is not better.

I haven't really heard that album yet, but just about every review I ever hear about complains about the sound quality, which is a shame. Maybe some talented editor will take a stab at it. ;) Think it could be done, based on what you hear? (if it's simply too loud and gets distorted/farty, maybe nothing can be done about it) I wouldn't be surprised if they release a remastered/fixed version someday.

not to get too off topic here, but that Metallica album had a different (read: much better) mastering for the video game "Guitar Hero" (I think it was that game).  Anyway, there were fan-rips of this floating around.  And Metallica (read: Lars) claimed that it was bullshit, and they wouldn't release another version of the album

To veer back on topic... I am really looking forward to listening to this set.  Sounds amazing.

Here's the comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRyIACDCc1I

It's sad really, what has happened to music...

Last off-topic:

I have only one wish for Metallica: that they Rust in Peace !... Viva Dave ! :P

skyjedi2005 said:

By any chance is 7FN going to do a vinyl transfer of return of the jedi?

Nope. Someone else could but we agreed this 40 min score didn't worth the effort. I wish you would satisfied with the remaster, mostly if you think that it wasn' t - as all the remastered set - meant to be shared at the origin. I shared them because one generous guy named 7FN shared the RSO with me that I was seeking for a remastering work. THAT was what I meant to share at the origin. As his work was finally very fine in that shape, I choosed to share my remastered set with them. ... You still want more ? 

vaderios said:

A big surprise was teh radio drama music which was unknown (thank you for that)

I liked the new spaces/pauses between the tracks.

I d like though each file has the proper naming and not only the track number instead.

Thanks to GoodMusician for the extra tracks not foundable on the SE's and Anthology !

For the spaces between the tracks it is indeed of great interest to me too, and much more digestible ;)

... And sorry ! My Hi-Fi doesn't display track titles, so I don' t need them ... I don' t know what's an Ipod btw and don' t want to. :) Some say that computers can read a CD ?

Lol !

@ Eyeshotfirst: Thanks for this enthusiastic notation. What you said about ANH is really good to know and to hear from a fan. I won' t say enough I'm not a scholar about SW scores and I was just guided by what sounded essential in these recordings to be improved. :)

And thank you all for making this topic living for a while: it's raining requests these times. I mean thanks for them !

... You forgot to tell about the fucking covers! :p lol!!! Your post really made me laugh! Thank you!

Yep. To notice there was a lot of colour corrections done on the ESB and RotJ posters, and a little on ANH. 'Hope you like the idea of each planet on the CD's :)  And I hope it's easy to make them match on everybody's softwares... I' m not an expert about these.

Burdokva said:

 

Let me begin with the (small) critisism - there was some background noise on a few tracks. Not very much, but I could hear it in the quieter sections, interrupted by the heavy brass(?) instruments or by violin(?) solos. Another issue is that the player I'm using shows all tracks as "unknown". Once I have home audio I'll test it again, but can anyone please check if there's problems with PC's reading the audio file desriptions (author, track title/number and so on).

This is definately a (very) small issue, though.

... This was stated (in a way) in the very first post of this thread that you may have checked. Anyway I'm glad most people enjoy it as it is. I like to think nothing is impossible to do but... I've done what I could. :)

DarthBo said:

About that, is it possible you somehow forgot to select the entire ANH poster during colourcorrecting? The bottom part of the left poster in "ANHcovers 2cd.jpg" looks a lot more saturated than the rest :-)

The blues are quite difficult to deal with sometimes. Indeed the dark blues may have a bit more saturation. It 's not a matter of selected parts btw: I choosed to desaturate or change the most the hot colours. Note that I didn' t try to recover the original colours... How could I ? I don't have an old pristine print has a guide.

... So, what about your thoughts on the scores ? You' re so silent about it my dear DarthBo! :)

is there a way to get these (like a torrent or something)? I really want to listen!