Leonardo said:
I know you're gonna cut my hand off for this, please be gentle
If you would have post three words just to say "this is amazing!" I would have been (just a bit) disappointed. Critiscism is more than welcome.
I hate to be so picky... but I opened these two tracks in Cool Edit Pro 2.1, and noticed that in the highest peaks there is some clipping, it goes briefly to zero db. Perhaps it would help to set the equalizer's master level just a bit lower, say -1 db.
-1db would have been yet quite a lot. And to notice you can't deal with a track here while ignoring the others. Do you remember the first version I shared was too low, much much lower than the actual one ?... Despite this, a couple of tracks was already clipped !
I don't have the technical knowledge to explain the way this music has been managed since the 1980 recordings but what I can say is thas working on this has been full of contradictions all the way. If I say to sum up: "the worst tracks are the best ones", it would be quite close to the point.
I checked myself how much these tracks have been clipped of course, and it happens only in the highest crests of "rare" exploding moments. You probably noticed besides that these clippings occure mainly or only on very tight localisations and that the peak jumps incredibly high ton these. In my humble opinion, it has more to do with the original recording volume than with the way I dealed with them.
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The weakest point of the ESB score I'd like to point here to finish (it is more or less related to that peak matter) is to have somewhat a "dribbling" sound. It's a real problem cause you can't have anything completely clean, or... Yes you can: it will give you something very cold approaching the lifeless side of the SE's, and with a lot of relief gone, that will only -look- clean.
Just so to say this peak matter was one of the several little sacrifices necessary to obtain an equilibrated set... Ok you could say the Main Title could have been a bit lower, but it wouldn't have removed the clipping at all.
dark_jedi said:
... I am going to wait this time before jumping on.
:)