Sorry to say it is on the "Faces" and "DC" LD sets, I just checked.

Blast. Ah well, for the 5.1 I'll just paste in a tiny section of the gout to cover it up, should be pretty unnoticeable.

It's interesting how the laserdisc versions have that jump cut in the music but the gout and the Faces vhs tape do not. I guess somebody in LFL's home video department noticed and corrected it, but only for vhs; the gout version must have used the vhs audio master since it was more recent. This conveniently explains why the ESB gout mix is dynamically compressed compared to the laserdisc, since vhs has a range of something like 80 db compared to 96 db for 16-bit pcm.

I did hear a high-pitch sound after "Shields up" but thought it sounded like Ben Burtt sound effect.

That's the noise I'm talking about, but it's definitely not a sound effect, it's a glitch of some kind. At first I thought it was caused by my computer crapping out while copying the file, but since dark_jedi's copy was also that way, it must have been introduced elsewhere; maybe an upload error or who knows what. The replacement d_j sent me from his Faces laserdisc doesn't have this high-pitched sound, neither does the GOUT or my vhs, nor the 1980 mix or any of the SE's, so I can say for sure it's not an effect of any kind. But I would have pegged it as a glitch just based on the timbre of it alone.

So, we have two glitches in the 1993 mix; one an error in mixing, later corrected by LFL for some later releases (similar to the 'incredible shrinking aspect ratio' but less noticeable), and the other inadvertently introduced in the fan preservation. Both will be corrected in my 5.1 version, which is very nearly complete; all that's left is to add the fixes, verify that I've set the LFE levels properly, and send it off to be upmixed.