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Well I know there not entirely faithful to the theatrical releases and Paramount had the gore to tell me in an email.
There’s missing sound effect on Star Trek the motion picture where Sulu presses a button screen left, just after receiving new orders by captain Kirk to keep the Enterprise 500 meters above intruder, and just before McCoy exits the bridge in the turbo-lift.
Have a listen and if you happen to have the US regionA it might be intact on the Dolby film mix!
I noticed when the same versions where aired on Channel4 a few months back just weeks into the 70mm run in the USA, seems odd doesn’t it? LOL I noticed it had the same echo effect on Sooty voices intercom right channel, warning Kirk about the warp drive system. It should be dry sound with no echo reverb effect on stage right that filters onto the faked stereo surrounds SIGH!
The sound effect of Sulu pressing the button on helm control was there! So it lead me to believe, it might be as US copy, or other as it had PAL4% speed-up that is common in this country with TV broadcasts and video consumer products.
Another thing I noticed and its not easy to control unless you have some fancy audio gear to tame the audio frequency levels is, the ending of STAR TREK II the sweeping Horner score moving with the images of Genesis, is damn bright toppy on screen HF left!
I don’t recall remembering this when played at the Empire Leicester Square in 70mm 20 years ago, it had nice balance over the screen fronts and a very TIGHT BASS LOW END! VERY TIGHT! That may sound a bit lose in the home with smaller loudspeakers.
Even the narration at the end of the low end humming organ like sound, was pressing on my body from 20 meters away.
Now that is what I call a critically well balanced aligned JBL THX sound system!
If you have the free fancy Spectrumlab and use to monitor each of the 6 channels you’ll see which ones have the tight low bass it, might seem weak to some Transformers, nuts who like LFE.1 at mindless silly levels.
I welcome a bit of audio compression and just turn up the level to safe 85db while giving tremendous weight to older Dolby soundtracks rather than this bright harsh like sound, I’m not that hard of hearing, I can hear some sound effects up to around 16KHz for my age, but it takes a high compliance compression driver with high sensitivity of +100db to handle the easy of the frequencies, rather than putting strain on smaller HF tweeters that have lower sensitivity.
I’m talking about Alien3 (1992) when Ripley does cat-scan the scanner has high pitch tone that should pinch your ears a little bit, not aggressively just so its noticeable! You may have to EQ because other tones that are lower than 10KHz going upwards will stand in its way, from common 2KHz upwards to 8KHz.
A little audio limiting on the HF to protect the driver from sudden peaks that can damage the voice coil helps.
So once again I listen! If its played at lower volume the sound will sound small and higher tone shave small wavelengths. Its easier on headphones but the challenge is airborne into the room.
