captainsolo said:

Also been mad busy with a new job. Nice to see this thread still going along.

I'm curious about those analog tracks from the Uni Monster VHS tapes, as I've long wanted to do a comparison between LD, VHS and the 99 DVDs. Also the Discovision releases are supposed to use nitrate materials and different audio sources.

ROTLA was confirmed to use the original 70mm 6 track audio as the basis of the DVD 5.1, but nothing was ever said about TOD or LC. However, in comparing these they all lose something in the remix, LC comes across as the least different, as it was the least aggressive.

The biggest loss is in the mixing which as we have said is extremely aggressive on TOD, but is also interestingly open sounding on LC. (Something to do with the "designed in a THX theater" credit perhaps?) Most notable is the sound panning across channels in ROTLA and TOD which is gone in the remix.

Well I'd like to do a preservation of Frankenstein/Dracula from every source since every video format seems to have slightly different audio. Love to get the disco vision soundtracks also. Captain solo are the LDs any different then the 99s or the high def?

I will pull TOD's DVD 5.1 and see if the surrounds are mono. If I recall from other threads here at OT only Crusade has stereo/split surrounds. If they are mono then it is a safe bet that it was mastered from the 70mm.