msycamore said:Also, I see now that you have LUKE'S NOCTURNAL VISITOR twice on CD1, it was the second half of THE TRAINING OF A JEDI KNIGHT on the Anthology.
Indeed... The guy's right ! I tought the second one a little reminiscent... Here's why ! So, that's a little mistake.
Ripplin said:
... it's a shame that the original recording quality is so much worse overall than the other two. I have no idea why, either. Do you?!
I suggest you go on GoodMusician topic and fill the search field with "Return Jedi transfer"... I'm sure you'll find more than a clue.
... What I can say is that mostly RotJ but the two others scores too are full of different mixing or transfer qualities as if each track had been considered isolately. I only heard such things on some "complete scores" stuff or recording sessions sometimes. RotJ has 51 tracks, that makes almost 51 different settings. I say "almost" because I sometime recognized I had to make the same settings on a group of different tracks, dispatched here and there (a little the same for ESB).
To notice the RSO ESB album is not "perfect" neither from this point of view and if I had to make a remaster I would class them into at least 2, even 3 groups, to deal with them before I could make their sound fit together. Another thing weird is that the RSO ESB has a different relief for the orchestra than the Anthology, but in the same time they have the same particularities (lack of flexibility, mostly in the highs frequencies which seem to have been recorded too strong for most of the tracks: small saturation; and wich also are a little narrow).
I think these differences may first depend on the recording dates (you have them on the backcover and they are quite numerous). Perhaps they tried to give different tempers to the music. I don't know, I just guess.
... From my point of view, it is what gives a certain richness to these scores too and I'm quite happy they didn' t try to turn these to the "perfect sound" fashionable standarization for CD's... Mostly the Sony one !
But you said it, RotJ remains a poor recording... For a most part.
@JediMasterFisher
... Hehe :)