A B C

^ Dr Watson I presume ?

Darth Mallwalker said:

I do like the try-before-you-buy approach to equipment though.

Yep, but as far as it can be refund, why not making a capture of every one of these recordings before ?... That would have made two of a stroke, mostly if one day JT wanted to get better equipement and then compare the results.

A raw capture as suggested SkyJedi would indeed have been the best thing to do before bringing back the stuff to the seller ! Notably when JT's LP rips were that pitch correct.

Purists are not allergical to a few noise if the rest rocks !

^ What ? Maybe my language issue, but are you asking if the project has been released ???

Cause if it's the case, and despite I can't stand your audio inputs, you had it in your pm box since you requested it.

... Sorry if I misunderstood the question.

PS: And yes, rpvee, please just do it yourself. If you don't know how to do it you'll find right away through google and you'll find pretty fast simple freewares.

Hey ! Funny see what I just edited in my post ! ;)

Anchorhead said:

The release & first shipment of the 2007 Hourglass Cabernet Sauvignon;

 

Best idea of the thread ! I'm gonna buy a bottle right away. Vive le terroir Français, les mecs !

PS: thing is I'm not waiting for after anything. I'm just gonna help myself.

I don't dare clicking on any of your links anymore...!

here is an old vid i did with an old approach

... And I thought SJ was talking about the "Old Rebublic".

Yoda said:

The boy has no patience.

Warbler said:

interesting. 

Come on guys... Your lives are fascinating, really.

skyjedi2005 said:

 

... since my other PC the one that was five years old not ten, died.  While the old one still keeps on kicking.  What a joke.

Luke Skywalker said:

I know what you mean

... And indeed these old links must be dead by now, mostly as they were only shared as a "bonus" to a few.

JT, you don't know how much "negative" feedbacks could have helped me for the ESB "Audiophile Edition". Besides, one of the most helpful feedback that really made me go forward was when I released the "Optimum Edition(s)", when Vaderios told me by PM: "That' s a nice patchwork..." or something like this. It is thanks to such cristicism I improved this score until you don't have the feeling anymore to listen to a patchwork. Just saying... ;)

skyjedi2005 said:

Dude if it means anything to you your LP transfer sounded better than the 1997 Jedi release.

 

Hahaha ! Such a comment would really hurt me !. How can any transfer sound worst or even as bad as this shit ?!! lol ! The Ipod purpose is not more grateful I guess.

I totally understand SkyJedi for a raw capture though, and that's why I said the noises and cracklings aren't bothering "imperfections". Also, I can't be that picky in my feedbacks cause I'd need to burn CD's to really witness the quality.

But let's be fair, the dynamic range of the Jedi LP through straight comparison with the CD rip sounded superior to me. I haven't compared with 20th Century mark capture yet, nor with 7FN's transfers that are not on my hard drive (it avoids to lose stuff ;) ... ).

JediTray said:

Please keep in mind that this is a preservation, not a restoration.  Even with all the measures I am taking, there are going to be imperfections.  The main focus of this project is to celebrate the dynamics and sound, as well as the nuances, of the vinyl recordings.

Imperfections (background noise, cracklings etc...) are part of the pleasure, and are not bothering at all if they are managed the way you seem now able to do...

And 'imo', your transfer sounds quite as expected from the LP's. "Yoda's Theme" is perhaps a quiet track by nature, but is also paradoxally one of the most powerful track (too much!) of the album (I calmed down the lows a bunch when I worked on this mix...). Anyway, your sample has now nothing more to do next to your first try. ;)

Someone who REALLY contribute to the SW fandom shouldn't have to apologyse nor give explainations about his private life (edit: no one here 'should' besides). Also it's obvious that when such a time consuming work is done, it still requires an effort to answer questions etc... Notably answering 10 thousand times to the same questions.

So, even if Adywan didn't give the current reasons for his time, he'd still be in his total right to ignore the discussion.

I LOVE VINYL !

Bingowings said:

 Massachusetts.

(french) "ramasse sa chaussette" = "pick up his sock "

Ridiculous, but on topic.

Warbler said:

in that case,  I owe ABC an apology.   ABC,   his similar posting style to yours and the word alphabet appearing in his name led me to the wrong conclusion.   I'm sorry.

I don't know if you're gonna read this, man, as I'm on your 'ignore' list. And if you do, it's possible you take it once again the wrong way as you always did ("ABC feels so superior etc...").

... However I'm gonna say this:

You don't need to apologize. You mess with your own ideas as you want, it doesn't bothers me. People reading your posts are not stupid and probably noticed how fragile and tortured are your base for investigations and for drawing conclusions most of the time, if however they care. And I'm saying this very friendly, otherwise I wouldn't dedicate these few lines for you.

How many times I tried to tell you: just be positive, and take things positively whatever they look like. This will make your vision wider my friend. Any bad things always strike the thrower back, so don't care and move along.

Unfortunately, that's the kind of words wich makes me sound so "superior" to you. The truth is that you play both the 'hunter' and the 'pray' one after the other, and I as a reader, am only a spectator whatever you accuse me (between others) to do. You continually shoot first (edit: more as a victim than as a 'hunter' actually), and only recognize your fault after if someone else is able to show you. It may work once, but you got people so used to that now... I don't think no one really cares of your paranoïd mental world.

*IMO*, GoodMusician's TPM reconstruction and guesses on it is amazing... And I'm -justly- amazed there isn't more feedback or discussion here around about it.

... It would avoid to have questions as this one:

What about a better presentation of phantom menace than the awful 2 disc set put out by sony.

Unfortunately I don't think GM has given something else than a mp3 version. I don't care besides, cause I don't care about that score. I'm just saying GM's creativity through retrieving the tracks and reediting the whole score as it was composed is great and has nothing to do with the releases. It's completely different and you see then revealed again J. Williams art of story-telling through the entire score.

(Edit) Also, I don't know if it's still findable through Youtube or so but GM's reconstruction against the picture for the battle of Naboo is worth to be seen (you'll witness all the butchering from Lucas and his friend, a guy called Ben Burt) !

AOTC & ROTS haven't been composed that way, and are not really that interesting as "complete" then, notably because of SFX's and some low quality sources. Maybe GM would confirm as he seems he has appreciated the 2-disc versions I made from every bootleg that were available at a time, instead of 3...

Some people here have had these two from me at a time (a Flac "remastered" version from the mp3 sources), if they want to share these by pm or any other way I have no objection.

alphabetty spaghetti said:

 so im always on your mind ,why? , do you think of me often ? . do you ever leave the computer and go outside to meet real people ? 

... I don't know much of how spaghetti uses to post but I can only echo what I'm reading from this user here ^ !

"To Be... Or not to Be"... written in pastas.

^ In the spaghetti !

avoidz said:

Ah, ok. I suppose it's like the sounds of music sheets being turned during quiet moments you can sometimes hear on soundtracks :)

(Sorry for double post)...

It's not as simple. Cause if you have to take into consideration the mixing, you have to consider the recordings too

... And Eric Tomlinson who recorded the OT musics used to make two recordings the same time: a 8-track (6 tracks of music) live recording + a 24-track recording. The first one was to catch the whole ambiance of the orchestra (front/below/left/right), while the 2nd one was to have more or less isolated the different sections of the orchestra.

It seems however that the 24-track was almost always what was chosen for the albums, when it seems the film received mostly the 8-track live takes wich contains the synchro tone for pictures. Now you can imagine all the different versions we could make of a SW score ! The album mixings had the reputation already to have some narrow stereo (I don't remember the reason but it was related to the necessity to have a center channel that was not obvious to manage...).

Is the music where the Falcon and other rebels fly into the Death Star tunnel sequence on this LP? That's one of my favorite parts of the movie.

Well, I already quoted that elsewhere, but if you're talking about the "Superstructure Chase" cue as I think, here it is again:

Eric Tomlinson said:

"I went down to talk to John williams when he was conducting (...) He couldn't hear a damn thing in there".

"I took it back to Abbey Road and I spent days trying to make it sound like Abbey Road and I just couldn't. We gave up in the end and although it sounded OK in the studio at Olympic, it didn't match up with the preceding or the following cue. They almost dropped it but it was too important to drop".

 

^

I get it ! it's a quote from Empire Strikes Back !

"No sign of life out there general"

^ Hehe. True.