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Post #573597

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TServo2049
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Star Wars 1977 70mm sound mix recreation [stereo and 5.1 versions now available] (Released)
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Date created
9-Apr-2012, 4:07 PM

h_h, I completely understand. It's your mix, you're free to do whatever you please. It is certainly more dynamic than the raw '93 mix.

The '93 mix is derived from the 6-track 70mm, but I am certain that they did something to it that can't be undone, even with your improvements (and don't get me wrong, they are definite improvements). Your recreation is amazing, but some sound effects just lack punch. If any levels were adjusted, and dynamic information was lost or dulled, it can't be fully recovered. (For another example, the high-pitched whine of the Tantive flyby will always sound at least somewhat clipped and distorted, because the peaks just aren't there.)

Mike Verta says that no video transfer can fully duplicate the color range of film, and we know that no amount of color correction to these transfers can recover what's not there in the first place. The same holds true for sound.

I now realize that I can't, and shouldn't, ask you to "fix" anything on my account. As it is, you're doing a phenomenal job.

Just for fun, though, I mixed together the morgands1 and LMayer in-theater recordings (with some pitch adjustment done to the former). I know that these recordings don't accurately reflect the raw sound information, or even how it actually sounded inside the theater, but I don't care. Since different sound information is missing from each of them, I wanted to hear what they would sound like played at the same time, and this is what I came up with: https://rapidshare.com/files/3561280182/MorganDS1_LMayer_test.mp3