Can someone please PM the links to the new updated version. Thanks!
WOW! I leave due to a professional project and all this gets done! I'm impressed!
Any chance someone can send me some links. :D
Well - I gave a listen to A B C's "ESB:AE" work and I must say that it is brilliant work considering what he had to work with! I know many, many engineers with multi-thousand dollar set-ups in high end facilities who can't do what A B C did.
Well done sir!
A B C said:
MasteringJedi said:
Might be a little late to the party...but I would love to help. :-)
You're not too late, simply cause I have left this project aside. RotJ is quite a bad material to work with.
If you're VERY interested I'd love to hear what you can do, and then we're going to invert the roles, leaving to you the whole baby...!
I can help you re-thinking - or suggesting - a new complete cue sheet after having spotted all the different takes (or cuts). We can discuss wich cue we drop if they are too bad, too. I can also make a few mockups (editing)
I can provide a professional presentation (arts).
And also I can point you too to my previous work on the complete score, in order to show what good surprises I've been able to reveal from these recordings already.
Needless to say it would deserve a new topic and I wouldn't get that bad if you'd post a new one.
You are in command now, Master !
:)
Haha!
I'd love to help out. I think we should discuss this via PM. I'd love to give back to this community. Making a definitive version of the ROTJ soundtrack would sure be an honor.
This is one of my favorites:
Brilliant work Adywan! I have always wanted a version like this! The GOUT I have I paid $40 for and doesn't look half as good. Can't wait to see ESB:R!
Thanks so much for your hard work and generosity!
Might be a little late to the party...but I would love to help. :-)
A B C said:
A note about remastering
Well, planning to take a cranck at two Indiana Jones soundtracks I was brought through my researches on the site of the master engineer Steve Hoffman (DCC releases) and found his "lessons" for EQs and so for audiophiles.
I was glad to see my whole process matched with the one he recommands, in "cheapest" , so I can only invite anybody interested to read that:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/dhinterviews/
Now I must say I feel a little like a ant in front of his knowledge. Of course I surely don't have such an equipment he recommands.To make it short about my own process, I use a first digital equalization to make the sound the more precise possible (through an old version of Nero, on a damn precise sounding very old computer - a Bull one), ignoring any kind of enhancements, what results in a flat sound. I call that: "make my table clean". I burn this work on a CD and check out on my Marrantz CD player if it sounds equilibrated, with bass & treble at 0 (though I use to leave the loundness function enabled as I'm used to it)...
... Please note: I haven't said "good"... But "equilibrated".
To notice also: I use to lower the volume on this first stuff.Second step goes with uploading this new stuff, and find the precises points where to model my sound, and my way to do this matches quite well with S. Hoffman's ways.
BTW, when he says "never add, just subtract what is there already", I can only agreed.I use the exact same graphic equalizator on this step cause I don't have other equipment nor I have a precise parametric equalizator. However I keep on modeling and thinking in curves and rare are the occasions when I break one.
A serious and well equiped audiophile may have worked at such restorations than the one attempted here with cheap equipment, and I'm sure it would have given a better rendition. Never forget that digital processing only imitate the analog ones, and the word "digital" should be relied to the final format and to a couple of tools for accurate checking, but not to a quality guaranty ( - "Digitally remastered" ! ).Anyway, just thought sharing those informations may be useful for people like Hairy Hen working at audio mixes enhancements.
While it is true that subtraction is better than addition when using EQ, a carefully placed addition can do just as good so long as it doesn't harm the music.
If you search through Mr. Hoffman's site, there are many examples of where he has added EQ instead of reducing. Don't be afraid to play around with EQ. :-)