msycamore said:
The Wampa's Lair, very good! This one is flawless, love your subtle approach with the LP layers, when looking at your notes, what you have done must be a pain!!
Of course I didn't edit the little parts bit per bit. The real pain was that the speed was slightly different on the many edited parts from the LP (second half).
The Rebels Escape Again, This one really comes to life and gets better dynamic with your equalization and LP layer...
And mostly thanks to the channels shifting, believe it or not... The tries with the LP layer helped me a lot finding this out. I' m sure there are many tracks wich have suffered of that, as with my tries with the Anthology version of "City In The Clouds" wich revealed the hidden horn that was totally unheared before. I made many tries on several cues but though it looked sometimes a little better I droped them being not sure it was right. I only was lucky with this one.
The frequencies are so full of informations due to the resonnance of the recording that they surely missed a bunch of tracks when putting together the many orchestral parts through the multi-track transfers. That explains why the Anthology sounds a bit "muddy" and weack, but in the same time shiny (a way to "improve" the noise and this muddy side)...
... That explains also what the SE has tried: to get rid of this richness, mostly through compression, to make a virtualy precise sound.
Next to those, the RSO multi-track transfers look like a nice bunch in wich accuracy is not always at the rendez-vous, but no attempt through weird processing where made to hide the lacks.
Can I ask you why you choose to work with "Jedi Master Revealed" from the SE? to me it sound much better on the Anthology's track "City In The Clouds"...
"Jedi Master Revealed" looks better on the Anthology at first glance, but after re-EQ of both, seeing what they were made of, the SE was better quality, had more substance and a better depht. Here again the Antho is more "shiny" but it's only a "package", and is also far much noisy than the SE once the highs were cut on both.
one more thing, will you include the 20TH Century Fox fanfare? (John Williams & LSO recorded the new version for this film after all) just curious.
I recently borrowed the first print of the SE to my brother and so I rode indeed the fanfare has been especially re-recorded by the LSO on ESB... So I guess it should be included. I always skip that track when listening a SW score which has it ! :)
... I can see Mynock Cave didn't strike your ears that much... Wel, well.