Silver, I think you mentioned that before about modern players having the analog signal turned down. Puzzling as to why they would think that was a good idea. My DVL-700 seems to have no difference between volume levels, but I hardly play the analog signal.
No one's really gone into the Raiders sound mix. I don't think there are a great many differences, but for some reason ever since I bought the DVDs, I haven't been fully happy with the 5.1 track, and the 35mm restoration just cemented that in my mind. Combine that with these now documented differences and I'm thinking that there indeed is a better mix out there. Especially since it was intended for split surround Dolby Stereo, but may have not been released as such.
My thoughts on possible Raiders mixes:
35mm Dolby Stereo
70mm Dolby Stereo (Either of these may have been split surround, or they may not, if either it was probably the 70mm)
1991 WS LD mix-may have been a remix done at this point as several have stated that there were distinct new additions made. Or this may be the original track and the previous video versions were a video mix.
2003 DVD 5.1-Supposedly derived from the original 6 track master. This same audio is reused for the new 4K restoration, with digital presentations having a higher resolution audio file accompanying screenings.
Sorry to hear about your disc...I'll be extra careful when I get a copy! The last thing I need is another rotted LD.
For capping analog audio, should CX encoding be on or off? Off would have all the noise and hiss but with it on is anything essential lost?
1990osu said:
Vertigo has a really bad stereo remix. They didn't even try to match the original, using completely new gun sounds and so on.
Oh, this killed me for years. It's an awful mix that sounds nothing like a 1958 movie. Then like N by NW the score is in stereo. For all the work Robert Harris and James Katz did on the restoring the film, the sound almost undoes it. But it was at Universal's instance that there be a 5.1 mix created because someone was a dingbat. The DVD from the Masterpiece Collection has a mono track from a best available source print, and it is night and day. (The later Legacy disc has a folddown of the 5.1 instead of mono.) Speaking of this film, do any of the earlier video editions have a serviceable audio track? I've thought of picking up the old LD for this reason and to see again what the film looked like pre-restoration. (I'm still not absolutely positive on some of the color choices made.)