hairy_hen said:
Colson said:
REPORT-ROTJ-v2.5 - At the screen wipe at 4:57, there appears to be a weird glitch in the audio where it skips (for lack of a better word) momentarily. This appears to be present on all the audio tracks, so it may be native to the film. It’s present on 83 and 93 mixes.
This is a defect in the source tracks. I tried to get rid of it while assembling the audio mixes, but was unable due to lack of suitable material to patch over it. I found that while it is quite noticeable on headphones, it’s harder to hear it when listening on speakers, and not actively hunting for errors.
It could be a dropout in the music stems, it could be a bad edit of different takes, I’m not really sure, but it’s there in all versions as far as I can tell. There are also a few other things of that nature scattered through the film, but I’m not going to say where they are.
The 1986 US laserdisc I used for the '83 stereo mix had a large number of dropouts in various places, as well as a spot where the tape distorted pretty heavily for a moment. I patched over all of those with the 1989 SWE laserdisc, since they are not actually part of the mix itself and are just errors in that particular copy of it. If I hadn’t done this, there would be a great many more defects to point out.
Thanks for clarifying. Your work on these soundtracks is INCREDIBLE. In particular, I love the isolated score tracks, as they are a whole new way to watch these movies.
Thanks for explaining these to me, good to know the reason for them.