Intrada Soundtrack Forum

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"Nothing is as loud as silence." - Dr. Miklós Rózsa

I always celebrate Varèse when they're doing a great release (Short Circuit for example) and this thread is not about one of them...

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Karl Morton IV

"Enjoy every sandwich."
-- Warren Zevon

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Karl Morton IV

"Enjoy every sandwich."
-- Warren Zevon

I seriously doubt that Varese would repair anything quietly. You can always check your copy through spectral analysis of some of the cues and you'll see what exactly are you listening to.

btw, any news from Silvestri?

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I was thinking more along the lines of someone at the plant responsible for manufacturing the CDs realizing that they'd screwed up and fixing it hoping nobody would notice. That kind of thing happens, but I have no idea how such a place works so whether it's even possible is for others to say. Is it possible to accidentally have the wrong box ticked while mastering or whatever? It would explain why Varese is saying they stand by their release - i.e. the copy they kept round the office is one of the good ones, pressed after the issue was corrected.

Just whistling in the dark here, naturally, but something like that happened with a DVD manufacturing company I had to do with recently. About 1/3 of the DVDs had an obvious visual glitch but the other 2/3, including the one we kept for reference, did not. Turned out the pressing plant we used used our small run to train a new employee, 1/3 were messed up, and they fixed the settings for the last 2/3 figuring our order was too small to bother with. Fortunately the plant owned up or my boss and the client would STILL be screaming at each other about this. LOL!

You're right, I'm sure a spectral analysis would tell me whether I should like what I'm hearing or not, but if that's what it takes I'm happy to trust my battered eardrums.

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Karl Morton IV

"Enjoy every sandwich."
-- Warren Zevon

That's it - trust your eardrum!

I haven't got that particular release - but in general, you should *listen* and not do a spectral analysis or send it to the cryolab or sonic engineering acme co. for them to tell you if you should like it or not.

If you don't like it and it gets in your way of the listening experience, adress your concerns to Varèse via email. That's what we can do. Whatever they make of it is their choice. But you can be sure as hell they will find out what happened within their company/plant to ensure it doesn't happen again. Re-pressing or not, NOBODY likes to publicly address issues of unprofessionalism. I assume something happened, it was a glitch and they don't like admitting glitches. Maybe it would be too much shame for THE original score label to admit a silly mistake. Who knows. But it doesn't matter that much anyway - because if it really was a glitch and missing attention on their part - it will sure as hell not happen again. They are too much a professional company to earn a bad reputation.

IF anything is wrong with this product, by all means let them know there is. But don't CONDEMN them for not adressing this publicly. It's a business decision that fits their profile for not being *that* communicative. But please DO cut them some slack.

Varèse has given us brilliant stuff and will continue to do so - but don't judge them based on one faulty release.

BUT do write them. They need to know something was wrong.

Aw crap, too much of the good stuff...

ND: Glen Morangie Single Cask Malt

The fact is that it's not the first glitch for Varèse... So I guess the only thing they've learnt is that the unhappy people continues to buy CDs, so why should they worry about this ?