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ABC
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¤ THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK ¤ The "OPTIMUM EDITION" Score Reconstruction, Remixing & Restoration Version 3 (Released)
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8-Feb-2010, 10:21 PM

msycamore said (About Mynock Cave):

Fair enough, your version of it will be a very good alternative for me, if it doesn't sound to rude;)

 ...? You just have to listen what's after "Jedi Master Revealed" on the sample to find out... This version is definitive (and sounds like "Vader and the Emperor" for an idea).

 

I understand it must be very hard if you have to tone down the great sounding tracks to better match the inferior ones...

That's not exactly what I meant. The difficulty here is to choose or detect what is to be highlighted or not. The frequencies can be differenciated a lot on "Aboard the Executor" and will still sound natural. There's no corrupted frequencies once the noise from the remastering is removed, on the contrary of almost all the score (any source).

But anyway the contrary is a lot more difficult. I've just spent days and more working on "Carbon Freeze" and "Darth Vader's Trap", even trying accurate layers with the SE to borrow a little of the bass/medium roundness. I believed it worked and was good during a time but unfortunately in the end I observe that if I increased the power and dynamic of the tracks, the depht has decreased. Then after having tried more than ten versions for each track I finally come back to the v.3 final mix for them as they show the more judicious choices.