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| Author: | Anakin McFly [ Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Some score CDs sounding strange |
Why do some scores sometimes sound like if they were badly recorded, or like if something occured during the mastering phase. I have 2 examples in mind : WILD AMERICA (Joel McNeely, 1997) from Prometheus and IN THE ARMY NOW (Robert Folk, 1994) from Intrada. It’s really sad to listen to such great epic scores with a bad, extincted sound, lacking of clarity and amplitude (especially for WILD AMERICA which sounds really awful). Someone knows what could have happened to these scores (at least for IN THE ARMY NOW Doug and Roger ?), or is it just me being completely maniac ? |
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| Author: | Yavar Moradi [ Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:01 pm ] |
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| Author: | Lokutus [ Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:57 pm ] |
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| Author: | Yavar Moradi [ Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:36 pm ] |
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| Author: | Lokutus [ Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:14 am ] |
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| Author: | Guest [ Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:46 am ] |
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| Author: | Anakin McFly [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:12 am ] |
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| Author: | MWRuger [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:52 am ] |
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| Author: | Gordon Pym [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:56 am ] |
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Hi Anakin! Sometimes the recording itself cannot be faulted if various errors occured during the mastering phase. Remember the odd sounds all over The Last Castle CD ? For instance, when I bought the first Varèse release of The Final Conflict in 1986 I was appaled by its terible sound quality: it sounded horribly compressed, with almost no high-end, very tiny sound for such a landmark score. It was really distracting and didn't do justice to this incredible score. Only when Varèse reissued it in 2001 with remastered sound and this time mixed from the original multi-track masters was I able to savor the incredible dynamic range of Eric Tomlinson's recording. In the early years of CD, a large number used to to be mastered very low: a CD like Glory, for instance needs to be cranked up if you want to really hear something. Something to do with sample rate, if I'm not mistaken. That's why many audiophile collectors maintain how LPs sound better as far as dynamic range is concerned. I haven't heard the Prometheus release you mention, but maybe it was not mastered from the original masters but from some kind of second generation mixdown. Then, some scores are just badly or oddly engineered. RCA's SE of ROTJ doesn't sound good to me. Muffled, unfocused with very week stereo separation. Oddly, The earlier boxed-set SW anthology had much better sound. Why ? I wish I'd know. Cheers! |
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| Author: | thx99 [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:16 pm ] |
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| Author: | Douglass Fake [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:29 pm ] |
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| Author: | thx99 [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:41 pm ] |
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| Author: | Yavar Moradi [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:09 pm ] |
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| Author: | thx99 [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:26 pm ] |
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| Author: | Gordon Pym [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:56 pm ] |
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