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Post #660855

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PDB
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The Audio Preservation Thread
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Date created
19-Sep-2013, 10:21 PM

TServo2049 said:

Speaking of crummy-sounding Dolby Stereo mixes, a suggestion: how about a rip of the 1993 Disney LD of The Muppet Movie to sync with the new Blu-ray?

Like Superman, TMM has a rather tinny, low-dynamic-range Dolby mix (the music-and-effects track heard on the foreign dubs actually had higher fidelity!), and it makes very little use of surrounds. There was one good use of them I know of - the movie starts in standard lo-fi center-channel mono, then when the movie within a movie starts, the sound field suddenly expands to full 4.0 as the music swells, and the rainbow and title appear. (I know I said the Dolby mix sounded lo-fi, but it's still definitely a wider dynamic range than Academy mono, evident as you first hear bells in the right channel as the rainbow sweeps into frame.)

The original mix was on the original DVD in 192kHz Dolby Digital, but I think it's still worth preserving lossless.

I'd being willing to sync it up if someone has the LD. Although it is a weak soundtrack its always nice to have the original.