@Joshua724: At around 58 minutes, your dad talks about a cassette recording he made of the soundtrack for testing at home, and he says he “thinks we still have that”. Were you able to dig that up? I’m sure I’m not the only one here who would like to listen to it…
Not only do I have it, I was planning on loaning it to someone who knew how best to handle it to coincide with the release of this interview. I just forgot to mention that. As such, does anyone know someone who has the proper tape playing equipment to be able to play back this tape at the highest audio quality that it was recorded at? Here’s some stats:
TDK MetalBias 70us EQ MA90
Noise Reduction: DBX
High(CrO2)): 70us
The main emphasis on this tape cassette is that it was recorded with a tape machine that took full advantage of the metal composition on the tape cassette to record the audio track in the best way possible.
Note: The tape cassette says The Empire Strikes Back. If he was making a test recording, it would be of the first movie done using this new digital mastering technique. There wouldn’t be a need to do it with a second test recording. So, no, we don’t have the Pre-SE A New Hope audio track.