Dixon Hill

That's some dumbass fanfiction right there. I don't even care about Star Wars but your theory is bad and you should feel bad.

Nothing, I stirred the tanks.

What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone's as ugly as you?

Gimme one reason I shouldn't have ma boy here pull ya head off

We're not intimidated by thugs!

Mattris isn't complicated, Steve. We just need to figure out what he's after.

You thought we could be decent posters, in an indecent thread! But you were wrong. The forum is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel forum is quotes. Unbiased, unprejudiced...fair.

Oh yeah? I remember being intrigued when that was announced but I never went down the Spitfire route. Missed my chance at this point unless I sell my grand and relapse into samples. I'll take a listen.

I had a vision, of a JWFan without Star Wars mania. General Discussion/Tolkien Central ground out a little profit and the moderators tried to shut them down, one thread at a time...and it was so...boring. I've had a change of heart. I don't want Mattris spoiling everything, but why should I have all the fun? Let's give someone else a chance. If Mattris isn't banned in sixty minutes, then I blow up Other Topics.

Agreed.

"Who is it that the monster's taken, Minerva?" "Ginny Goldsmith."

Don't know. Deleted my account there. Just wasn't on much.

He seemed like a gin guy.

Christ, the dead horse beating that a few people here do is kind of pathetic and totally drags the place down. You'd think it was 2004 again.

Who would have been a more interesting, fitting, and most importantly, realistic choice in your estimation?

I reckon he would have done BR2049 solo for the same reasons if it hadn't been such a timecrunch, but even there you can hear his passion for the material. This is promising.

Great sound quality on that one.

The only sensible choice really. Now fully interested in this production although the lead is totally devoid of personality in everything I've seen.

I think there's plenty to like about 90s Jerry. - TGP, now listening to Medicine Man

I was actually just talking about this with a relative who is younger and more knowledgable about samples. He reckons dumb kids who don't know how orchestras actually work are churning out unbalanced demos and expecting that from reality. Doesn't help that apparently samples aren't adjusted to have proper dynamic scaling so if you don't know how to do that everything is off. Glad I don't tinker with that shit anymore.

Yes! In these Trumpian times, Hollyweird doesn't care about music anymore. Only their political messages and the bottom line.

Those film music albums by classical labels were always fantastic.

Yep. I think alot of people want to deliver something of the highest quality regardless of how most listeners will encounter the music but then at some point it gets thrown to the mass consumption phase of production and someone insists that it be tailored to earbuds or Beats by fuckin' Dr. Dre.

In terms of symphonic music - little dynamic compression if any, little or no reliance on spot microphones, a certain school of musicianship with a more nuanced handling of dynamics and balance than is now common (possibly this is a result of how often scores are striped and players, especially brass, feel like they can/are asked to cut loose more when on their own), and a balance of presence with space. It's rare that this is all met 100% but I look for at least most of these things. The first two are ok but could be better, ESB and ET are grating - the former more than the latter. No opinion on the others. Star Wars 77 is a prime example of what I don't like. It's right on the edge of the time when scores had obviously inferior sound (and frankly playing as well) and when things started to improve a little bit but it falls into unpleasant territory for me. The 90s were the goldilocks zone for symphonic film music. After the low performance and sonic standards of previous decades, and before new production methods came along that are fine for some things but not for this type of music. Notable recent disappointments are John Powell's works. Even Hubris has an unpleasant EQ shape to it. His music is wonderful, but the production doesn't work for me.