ABC said:
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 !
Yes, Brian Risner's remixes is not the only problem, I just posted it for a good example for one of the issues with it, I'm not saying that Tomlinson's tracks is free from problems, but his original filmmixes are imo. but you're right, that has nothing to do with how they sound on records. But as you know, Risner remixed the 24-track tapes very badly with instruments located in the opposite direction etc. and many of them can never sound great, no matter what you do with them.
OK... I must give Mynock Cave a listen again, I don't remember that.