The problems with the new theme are all down to the mixing. the timing is also slightly different between TFA and ANH so joining the two together without a noticeable audio cut is going to be tough. I’d been playing about with the TFA theme for my own personal TFA edit and did some remixing to get it to sound more like the other episodes themes without having to reuse one of the original pieces of music. If anyone wants to use it ( it’s only stereo at the moment though) then they can
https://mega.nz/#!qUtjATQQ!J6RgSOoGYTnShtha-AmJSVBQPIwB-A0xQ8M7V87jlhU
Thank you Ady! You mixed that from the original TFA score?!?! I’m not even goint to attempt to figure out how because it sounds 100x better!
While you’ve just proven that mixing wasn’t right, and not only in the opening theme, but throughout it seemed the music was always too low to have the impact it should, except maybe when the X-Wings arrive at Tokadana, maybe.
I think on top of the mixing, the fact that they recorded the opening theme with the LA orchestra in the US with 90 instruments instead of the LSO in Abbey Road with 120 was also a huge misstep. I do not know why they decided to do this but it was kinda shocking to learn that the opening theme wasn’t even conducted by John Williams but the LA director. Wtf?
Here’s the source on that if anyone’s interested: http://www.rebelforceradio.com/shows/2015/12/30/star-wars-oxygen-vol-25-the-force-awakens-part-1 Talk about opening theme starts @ 50:00 minutes.
Are you planning to release your TFA edit at some point? Are you ‘just’ re mixing sound/music and I guess color correction or a more in-depth edit? Would really love to be able to watch your version ether way, man!