Glad you liked it. ;)

Turns out I'm going to have to do at least one edit over again, as it didn't actually work as well as I thought. I suppose I got a little overconfident, forgetting why I'd done it a certain way the first time, but there are some things that just won't work under any circumstances. Though the improved imaging of the '85 mix allows me to disguise the inserts more easily, other issues like changes in EQ or tape hiss level can still prevent an edit from being seamless, so I have to be really careful about that. The '85 actually has a lower hiss level than the '93, surprisingly, so obviously it won't do to hear a sudden jump in noise during a switch.

A note of interest: I found another sound effect that was added to the 70mm version that is not present in the 35mm stereo mix. Just before Han shoots at the garbage monster after they've left the pit (just after Ben has deactivated the tractor beam), the creature makes a high-pitched noise, which is absent from the stereo version. I'd never paid it much notice before, but when I finally noticed its absence, at first I wondered if it was another '93 addition—but it's definitely there in the theatre recording.

This would seem to cast further doubt and confusion on whether those two surround effects really originated in '93 or were present originally. Just when I'd made up my mind, things become unclear again. Blast . . .