Intrada Soundtrack Forum

I've loved film and TV scores since I was a wee lad, and now I'm fascinated by the mystery behind the locating/remastering process itself.

See, after all this time, I realized I only have a vague image in my head of how all of this goes down. When people talk about "locating the masters/elements", I picture a vast warehouse with shelves that hold enormous boxes, some with clear labels, others not-so-clear. When they talk of remastering and mixing, I imagine somebody in a dimly-lit cellar-like room, sitting in front of a waveform display on a computer monitor. And how do the slate numbers come into play, i.e. where are the identifying numbers usually found on these "elements"? Sticker labels? I'd love the opportunity to "sit in" on all this, or at least enough of it so that I'd know what it's like and how exactly it happens.

I'd really like to know, if only to have an accurate picture in my head of The Process. Maybe I'm using the wrong keywords in my Google searches.

Or is it something that record labels like to keep hush-hush, so that company secrets don't get out?

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My Holy Grails: 1. DuckTales (Ron Jones/Tom Chase & Steve Rucker)
2. DragonBall Z (Shunsuke Kikuchi), 3. DragonBall GT (Akito Tokunaga), 4. Pocket Monsters (Shinji Miyazaki), 5. A Goofy Movie (Carter Burwell, reworked by Don Davis)