msycamore said:
... if you look at this chart of the remixed cues on the SE for example, it's not hard to see why the SE is so inconsistent.
Wow !... Nice listing Msycamore ! Where did you get that ?
However I strongly suspect the only Risner mix on "Ion Canon" is the last bit, or let's say the second half. Besides, I couldn't have layered the Anthology on the first part as easily as I did if it was his mix because I notice those ones are too fast (as Mangobyebye noticed some SE tracks where overpitched) ;)
If you layer the Tomlinson mixes from the SE with the the Anthology ones, each infinitesimal bit fits at its place, excepted that you have to check if the frequencies are inverted or not (most of the time they are), and you have to re-edit all the track because of very slight differences in the cuts. (I tried layers for "Attack Position" and "Escape From Bespin" and had to re-edit the SE in 5 or 6 parts... Those cuts are unnoticeable otherwise so much the difference in the sound is slight or null).
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Ok, Risner made something really weird with those tracks... But he's not the only one responsible of the catastrophic SE:
All the Tomlinson mixes are f**ked up by the processing of the remastering: the equalization, possibly compression and many stereo modifications have brought this set to a painful and poor experience.
As you can read in my notes, the SE track for "Mynock Cave" have each channel isolated from the other: the instruments from the left sound only on the left and the right ones on the right, what the RSO surely doesn't do. If you sit in a concert hall it would be weird that a wall separe the musicians and so you can't hear the instruments sound melting... !!! You probably noticed that in my "Ice Planet" edit besides. EDIT: concerning "Mynock Cave", the statement made here looks to be finally true only for the parts that were missing on the RSO recording... Coincidence ?
Then, if Bryan Risner missed the multitracks mixing, Dan Hersh achieved to slaughter the set with his way to handle digital processing !
Nice team !