Remasters of the First 6 Star Wars Soundtracks now available (Shawn Murphy / Disney Records 2018)

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Reese's Feces?

[Holko 9,499]

It's great for luring homesick stray extraterrestrials into your home and restricting their freedom of movement while being a serious hazard to their health.

[phbart 609]

 

45 minutes ago, Margo Channing said:

Reese's Feces?

That's basically what the prequels are like.

 

[Bilbo 3,709]

On 19/4/2018 at 4:30 PM, crumbs said:

Yes the latter two prequels are a great example of short-sightedness on Lucas' part. For all his bluster about the advantages of digital technology, the inevitable 6K modern scans of the original trilogy will ultimately supersede the prequels (forever locked at 1080p). Now that's irony!

 

Interesting titbit on Lord of the Rings too, Jay! I feel like there are untapped advantages to these super high audio resolutions that we're yet to unlock, but might discover in decades to come as audio technologies evolve. Mike Matessino planted an intriguing seed in my mind when he raised the notion that filmmakers could scan old multi-track masters and remix music into newer formats like Dolby Atmos, regardless of how long ago the score was recorded. Granted digital resolution and number of tracks are two different factors but we don't yet know what benefits these higher resolutions might yield in the future.

 

I believe Lucas was more interested in popularizing digital cinema than having the best versions of his films for all time.

 

As they were remaking those films and talking about digital cinema himself and Rick said a few times that these were as bad as it was ever going to look and it would only get better from there on out. 

 

Someone had to take the first plunge. 

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

27 minutes ago, Bilbo said:

As they were remaking those films and talking about digital cinema himself and Rick said a few times that these were as bad as it was ever going to look and it would only get better from there on out. 

 

I don't think the prequels have been remade yet.

[Bilbo 3,709]

3 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

I don't think the prequels have been remade yet.

 

So original. Much inovation. Wow 

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

They're indeed quite innovative, especially TPM.

[phbart 609]

In my country, TPM is short for pre-menstrual tension.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

In my country, it stands for To Poo More.

[crumbs 14,305]

An apt description for the movie itself.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Awww, icky, icky goop!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

It was never gonna beat Titanic. Nobody can.

[Jurassic Shark 12,033]

Jurassic Park is better.

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

Condoms! Condoms are on the verge of extinction.

 

If I was to create a pack of condoms on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,508]

No, no, no. Were not talking about the building of a dam, or the deforestation 

of a woman. Condoms had their shot, and nature selected them for single use only. What you call progress...I call "ribbed for her pleasure".

[Bespin 8,480]

Ho we talk about Condoms? Ok, I think I use them one or twice in all my life.

 

OK, you will say, I am with the same man since 23 years.

 

(Please read my mid-life crises thread)

[Chewy 2,382]

7 hours ago, Bespin said:

Ho we talk about Condoms? Ok, I think I use them one or twice in all my life.

Good to know

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

An STI waiting to happen.

[1977 1,743]

Just to clarify, posting alternate custom covers for these releases on this thread is taboo but talking about condoms and poo is okay?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Why would that be taboo?

[phbart 609]

Taboohoo.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

My cat's name is Tabster.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

On 4/21/2018 at 8:47 AM, Jurassic Shark said:

Jurassic Park is better.

NOPE. They are both great.

[phbart 609]

2 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

Just to clarify, posting alternate custom covers for these releases on this thread is taboo but talking about condoms and poo is okay?

It's okay because we're refering to the prequels.

[1977 1,743]

11 hours ago, phbart said:

Taboohoo.

 

No, it's taboopoo.

[Brundlefly 2,385]

19 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

Just to clarify, posting alternate custom covers for these releases on this thread is taboo but talking about condoms and poo is okay?

Stay away from the "Other Topics"-subforum!

[phbart 609]

April is being an annoyingly long month. Soon we'll have Han Solo, Star Wars IX, but no May 4th 2018. 

[Bilbo 3,709]

6 hours ago, Brundlefly said:

Stay away from the "Other Topics"-subforum!

 

I dunno, he might enjoy the thread on neck ties 

[1977 1,743]

I can think of a good use for one of those neck ties

[Stempel 136]

Soundclips (?)

https://www.amazon.fr/Star-Wars-Nouvel-John-Williams/dp/B07BQP1GBK/ref=pd_sbs_15_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=B6M56DMGT8GMPXGERCH2

 

[Jay 37,326]

These are coming out April 27th in France?  That's in 2 days!

 

I guess those must be samples of the remastered ANH, then!  How's it sound?

[mstrox 6,647]

Weird...samples only coming out of my left earphone.  Hard to gauge sound quality based on that.  Maybe it's my work computer...

[Jay 37,326]

Strange they only put samples up for ANH, too.

 

Well, here are all 6 links in case they add samples later

 

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07BQP1GBK

https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07BQNDXJG
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07C9D8SW2/
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07CCZXJ1T
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07CCZX8T2
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07BQNDXJF/

[Holko 9,499]

The samples sound meh, but Amazon's soundclips are always heavily compressed.

Weird, even. Some speed/pitch issues, some unusual, even uncomfortable stereo mixing choices.

Just cancelled my preorder in case it's really this shite, I'll wait for your opinions on the final discs. So far, these samples just sound like they mixed it to give back the orchestra surround feeling without any regard to listenability (Inner City is almost hard left), then played it back on a turntable running slightly fast.

[Jay 37,326]

I was able to listen quickly and I had sound coming out of both speakers so it must have been your computer @mstrox

 

"The Desert and the Robot Auction" sample covers the segue between Desert Song and More Robot Auction so we should be able to tell if its a new digital edit or the old '77 analog edit

 

Overall these samples did NOT sound good to my ears on my quick listen.  Now, of course that could be largely to blame by Amazon's compression of the original CDs, BUT I am also hearing just weird mixing issues.  It doesn't sound to me like its "supposed to" if that makes sense.

[Trent B 337]

The samples sound like they're 192k or lower. They do sound like shit.

[King Mark 3,626]

I want to hear the RotJ samples

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

They sound fine to me (although I wasn't listening with headphones). Obviously the quality is just due to Amazon's sample compression; but I didn't notice anything wrong with the mixing itself. The stereo spread for ANH has always been pretty wonky, so that wouldn't surprise me.

[King Mark 3,626]

ANH from previous releases was good enough

[phbart 609]

Compression problems aside, the sound is disappointing to say the least. Looks like who ever worked on this, pretty much followed John Neal's album mix. It does have a better stereo separation though.

 

Amazon compression is indeed heavy. Sounds like a badly encoded 64kbps audio with spectral band replication, like HE-AAC.

[Alan 689]

Just listened to the samples. Hmmm.

 

Help us, Mike Matessino. You're our only hope.

[voltisubito 42]

Those samples (https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B07BQP1GBK) are identical to the ones offered on this page:

https://www.amazon.fr/Star-Wars-Nouvel-Espoir-Originale/dp/B01N0U9SSC/

 

i.e. the existing digital release of the OST. They are the same files.

 

They are joint stereo mp3 files encoded at 64 kbps with a sample rate of 22050 Hz. Presumably the correct samples will be published in due course.

[Jay 37,326]

Haha that's funny. 

 

Nice Detective work! 

[crumbs 14,305]

Phew! Surely there was no way they'd release something with WORSE sound quality than the excellent sounding OST remasters from 2015!

[Jay 37,326]

It's amazing Amazon bothers with samples if they are going to ruin the sound with low compression like that

[phbart 609]

33 minutes ago, voltisubito said:

i.e. the existing digital release of the OST. They are the same files.

I knew I wasn't been deceived by my ears. Why go to all the trouble of making a new transfer of the tapes at an absurdly high data rate of 192kHz/32bit, edit everything to match the album and make it sound like that in the end (I'm not talking about the compression).

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

I noticed that often times Amazon will bulk multiple different versions of a product onto a single page. You can see that the MP3 version is also present on that same page. Amazon just assumes they're the same thing, rather than separating them on different pages. So as voltisubito discovered, these are just from the previous release. That's good, I was getting a little concerned.

[Amer 2,083]

Have faith guys. The new remasters will infinitely sound better than their old digital counterparts. 

[Manakin Skywalker 4,891]

I mean, Shawn Murphy did the mix. There's no way it'll sound like crap.

[Chewy 2,382]

So strange it says it's coming out tomorrow in France, the price is still very high compared to Amazon.co.uk. I'll let you know guys if I find them at my local store.