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Help Wanted: 'LONE WOLF & CUB' - Restoring the audio from laserdisc? Blu-Ray audio is whacked!

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Guys… is it just me or is the audio for the Blu Rays completely messed up on disc 2? It sounds metallic, with a shrill, harsh kind of echo. Completely unnatural. It’s so bad I cannot stand to hear the audio at all.

I have the DVD’s and they sound better, despite being compressed DD. And while I no longer have the laserdiscs they did not not NOT sound like this.

For some reason disc 1 is nowhere near as bad.

Does anyone still have the laserdiscs?

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Matt_Stevens said:

It sounds metallic, with a shrill, harsh kind of echo. 

That description sounds like the audio on the NTSC Quantum Leap Season 3 =| Though I've only heard people complain that they censor some of the music, never heard anyone mention that the audio sounds like they put a microphone in a room and recorded it from an old TV.

(Might sound like that on other discs in the series too, but I've only checked out the one.)

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Anybody own these laserdiscs?

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applesandrice said:

I own a laserdisc copy of "Sword of Vengeance" ...

 

Do you know how to capture audio from an LD?

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This release was such a disappointment. Multiple movies crammed on 1 disc, the sound issues as mentioned already, and the most DNR I've seen this side of Predator UHE. It went out of print fairly quickly. I was hoping it was because Animeigo was going to put out a better set but I guess not...

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Anyone have any of the other Lone Wolf laserdiscs?

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The DNR was and is hideous. But to also release it with such bad bad BAD sound was unforgivable. Animego released the laserdiscs. There was simply no excuse to screw up the audio so badly when they released LD's with superb audio fidelity. 

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I now have the LPCM audio for LONE WOLF film #1. I will work on that shortly, but would love to get my hands on the audio for films 2-6. 

To clarify, I want the Laserdisc LPCM audio. Not the DVD's 192kbps DD1.0 tracks. Those i have. LPCM is far better. 

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Was that the PCM track I captured? Did it turn out okay? That was the first time I've tried capturing audio from a laserdisc ...

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I did a prelim check and it was fine, but i need to actually work on the title before i know for sure. I need an assistant! :)

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These films were recently released on blu-ray in Germany. They appear to have far less DNR than the animeigo release. No idea on the audio though. I went ahead and ordered a copy from amazon.de so it should be here in a few weeks. I'll report back. I'm pretty sure they don't have English subs so I'll have to use the subs from the animeigo release.

more info and screenshots here. 

http://forum.cinefacts.de/237673-lone-wolf-cub-box-set-am-5-12-14-a-3.html

also a comparison someone did.

https://app.box.com/s/ufmfou5z00r445p1ld7o

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It's entirely possible that they just added fake grain, but from what I am seeing I suspect not. We need better screen shots (uncompressed) to be sure. 

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I will post some uncompressed screens when I get the set, but it usually takes a few weeks to get shipments from amazon.de

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I received the discs today. Haven't really dug into them in depth but here's what I can say so far:

The 6 movies are spread across 3 BD25 discs with 2 movies per disc. That makes each movie only around 10gb.

I prefer the German picture over the DNR'd Animeigo mess but with only 10gb per movie don't expect any miracles. 

The best part is the horrible tinny sound of the Animeigo release appears to be gone! Part 4 was horrible on the Animeigo disc, but it sounds fine on the German version.

Unfortunately the German release doesn't have English subs so I will have to make a custom disc with English subs.

Here's a few screenshots.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/109721

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/109723

http://i3.minus.com/ibycFDQ0A181Dk.png

http://i2.minus.com/i0OzESH4oE7Xs.png

http://i3.minus.com/ioxmrgoDReFmF.png

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Wish I could get the comparison links to work. The PNG's load and clearly have normal film grain. They are not waxed out of existence. 

Very much looking forward to subbed versions of these, particularly with proper audio.

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Matt, sent you a PM.

to anyone else who might be reading this, if you have the animeigo lone wolf and cub blu-rays please send me a PM.