hairy_hen said:
After working on this almost nonstop for the past few days, I'm just about done with the main channel editing. For the most part it sounds about as good as I could ever hope to make it, and I'm really pleased with how it has turned out.
I was going to upload the stereo track and call it finished, but upon further listening tests I began to detect a few subtle errors that had previously escaped my notice. So it's not quite ready for posting yet, but it will be once I've got those sorted out. Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure what the trouble is—I can hear that something is mismatched without quite being able to identify exactly what is causing it, or knowing what to do about it. Some of the things I tried actually made it worse, so if I can't fix it, I guess I'll have to decide how much aural imperfection I'm willing to tolerate.
These are only small errors I'm talking about, quite possibly things that no one will ever notice if they didn't hear the more audible changes that occasionally appeared in the previous version. If I'm stuck with them, it's certainly not a big deal; I'd just rather know that they're beyond my ability to deal with before putting it out there.
Great news h_h!!
Disturbing to not know what it is and what's causing it. Hope you're able to identify the problem.
hairy_hen said:
Recently I've become concerned about the issue of phase shift and how that can negatively affect sound quality. It's a complex subject that I don't understand very well at all, but I've been trying to learn more in order to be able to avoid or counteract it. For example, I hadn't realized until now that using a low pass filter causes a phase shift in the extracted low frequencies, which is exactly the kind of thing that could cause unintended cancellation or smearing when combined sounds that are no longer aligned. See here for more information.
Interesting, I guess that's why you had some phasing issue in your Empire edit before?
A little odd that the '85 mix runs a little bit longer than the '93 mix in that part you described even if we're talking milliseconds here, I guess the '77 stereo match the '93 mix in duration there? Haven't listened to Schorman's digital stereo yet, but if it proves to have better fidelity than the analog track maybe things like the explosion before Threepio gets in the escape pod could be of good use, as you mentioned it sounds a little more powerful in the '77 track.
Great to hear that you're pursuing your interest in sound design and audio editing, the industry will need ears like yours!