litemakr said:

captainsolo said:

PDB does your analog track match the DVD or the WS LD on the staff drop? I've long been curious about that. Of course I just now went back and re-compared the two. The DVD has one sound of the stick hitting, and the LD has it roll around slightly.

The rest sounds the same but the WS LD mix has a potency that isn't in the 5.1. I don't know how to explain it exactly but it packs a lot more punch overall. Additionally the score has some directionality that isn't in the discrete version.

I'll dig out my recordings of the 1981 release and check the staff drop when I have some time.

I finally found my tapes. Here is a link to a .wav file with 2 different recordings of the staff drop from 1981 screenings of Raiders. They both sound the same to me. These are from the the theatrical dolby stereo mix, which I *thought* was used for the LD.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/vz81c2

However, when I listen to these tracks and compare to the DVD and LD, the LD is the one that sounds different, not the DVD. From what I can tell, the theatrical dolby mix, the DVD, the blu-ray, the foreign/alternate mix and the Wowow mix all have the same sound effect. But the LD is definitely different.

The LD also has a slight difference which I have only heard on the blu-ray mix. During the ark opening scene, when the generator starts to overheat there is a screeching mechanical sound before the lights explode. On most mixes the sound comes in cleanly, but on the LD and blu-ray mixes, it is combined with a wind sound.

I always assumed that the LD was the dolby mix but that doesn't seem to be the case since the LD doesn't match the theatrical Dolby mix or the 6 track mix (DVD and Wowow).