Good evening Mr. Hen,

It has been awhile.

Ran across this post, and wanted to respond with a correction. The restoration of the mono mix never employed any audio from the Dolby Stereo mix as filler. Aside from the 20 Century Fox fanfare and portions of the opening and closing music, it is all from the two mono sources. (Luckily, the commercial breaks occurred at different intervals on the two, allowing me to patch any gaps on one with the other.)

From the original thread:

Originally posted by skijedi2005:

is there a way to get those from a stereo source say the star wars soundtrack anthology box set and convert them to mono? Or would it be better to get it from the 35mm mix?

Everything except portions of the opening and closing music are from the actual mono mix soundtrack – about 85-90% from the Moth3r transfer and the remainder from the Allan Mikkelsen transfer – equalized to match the former. After comparing the possible options, I pulled the open/close music from the original 1980 CD release on RSO, as it seemed to be the closest match. The later CD issues have all been remixed and/or remastered, and the various stereo film elements all have some degree of delay added (presumable to enhance the surround presentation) which sounded quite processed when folded down to mono. Again the music from the CD was equalized to match the Moth3r material. Even then it still sounded a bit too “pristine,” so it was transferred once to audiocassette and back to get the additional analogue tape compression needed to better match the Moth3r material.

Belbucus