Salt (Deluxe Edition) – James Newton Howard – FLAC, 2 CD, Complete

Thanks to kgray I�m now able to present to you a complete and gorgeous sounding soundtrack: "Salt" by James Newton Howard. As you all know kgray shared the sessions some days ago and that fact made me very happy because not only would I enjoy additional tracks but also a perhaps improved sound quality. As it turned out I was right: the sessions lack the horrible dynamic compression of the original CD. If you don�t know what I�m talking about go ahead and read this: Loudness war – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war). The official CD suffered from very audible artifacts introduced by badly configured compressors, artifacts such as pumping effects, distortions etc. Generally the sound quality always was pretty horrible and I�ve tried to correct these errors five times during the past three years. That�s also the reason why this release happened so fast: I knew exactly what I wanted because I had done it so often before. But the sessions enabled me to do something else: normally I only ‘remaster’, which in my case means nothing more than to adapt something to my liking. But in case of "Salt" I had the rare opportunity to master the sessions for release. Yes, this is not remastering, this is a unique 1st mastering exactly like a mastering engineer would do for an official CD. The files for "Salt" were in 16/48 and hadn�t been mastered at all so I had to do everything: ordering, EQ, dynamics, mixing, titling, cover, etc.

What I did (in the highest quality of course using 32/192 files and the best DSPs):

– creating my own sound, deviating strongly from the sound of the official CD and the sessions
– now the orchestra is clearly audible, bass isn�t ‘droning’ anymore, stage is deeper and equally wide
– drumpads and synth high hats were extremely ‘in-your-face’ before, this is now gone while at the same time the orchestra has more gloss and crispness
– removing some clicks or drop-outs in the session files
– like on the official release I reduced dynamics a bit – don�t worry, not remotely as much, it still helped to create real ‘punch’ though; BTW, I did this manually by hand for every single track
– I combined some tracks exactly like they were on the official CD – these mixes make sense and create a cohesive whole that flows very nicely
– I moved the tracks "Accusations (Alternate)" and "Bagpipe Overlay" to the end of CD 2: the latter didn�t really fit in and an alternate belongs to the end IMO
– when you look at the tracklist you can see that I retitled some tracks, it�s still complete

I can�t talk about much about the covers, they are pretty standard. I copied a design from Luis Roja and also created my own. You can pick between two front covers, three back covers and two inlay covers.

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Prisoner Exchange 4:04
2. Not Safe With Me 1:35
3. Orlov Appears 1:14
4. Orlov�s Story 4:39
5. Accusations 3:04
6. Escaping The CIA 5:20
7. Breakout 1:06
8. Home Invasion 4:27
9. Spider Hunter 1:02
10. Chase Across DC 9:08
11. Hotel Preparation 1:46
12. Attack on St. Bart�s Cathedral 5:20

Disc 2

1. A Dark Goddamn Hole 1:47
2. Taser Puppet 1:28
3. You�re My Greatest Creation 4:11
4. Destiny 2:42
5. Barge Apocalypse 2:30
6. Day X 2:30
7. I�m Going Home 2:19
8. Eight Floors Down 2:41
9. Arming The Football 2:10
10. Protocol 5:57
11. Mano A Mano 3:33
12. Garroted & Aerial Inquisition 7:19
13. Go Get �Em 3:11
14. Accusations (Alternate) 3:02
15. Bagpipe Overlay 1:08

http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0WJ88CX5/UtahSaltFlats.part1.rar_links
http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/NETFIYEP/UtahSaltFlats.part2.rar_links

Pass: RussianGal

Enjoy!!

P.S.: As always, don�t ask for mp3s. Make them yourself. If you don�t know how google it, this should be common knowledge these days. When the archives are gone, they�re gone, I won�t upload them again. Someone else would�ve to do it should that become necessary. That�s what sharing is for, isn�t it? 😉

Thank you very much sonic. Cannot wait to hear your improved version.

damn you’re a genius mate! thank you

Thanks, SonicAdventure.

Thanks for all the kind words.

Right now I�m listening to it and I really have to say that it�s a blast! I don�t want to flatter myself but I�m really happy with this: it now has colour, real dynamics, a marvellous stage impression, the violins now sound like violins (and the synth like a synth), the bass is deep and very strong but not droning and the synthetic elements are very well integrated. It�s pretty rare that I happen to like one of my releases and so I felt the need to write it here.

Thanks sonic!!

Thanks. Definitely, mix is a issue that it has being ruining JNH’s music in the last years. His writing is amazing, but the mix ruins it (especially with the loud mix of synths and percussions, and the orchestra and choir almost drowned). So I’ll download this to compare it with the sessions.

Thanks. Definitely, mix is a issue that it has being ruining JNH’s music in the last years. His writing is amazing, but the mix ruins it (especially with the loud mix of synths and percussions, and the orchestra and choir almost drowned). So I’ll download this to compare it with the sessions.

Do that and please get back and write what you�re thinking, I�d be interested in your opinion.

Thank you for sharing it, SonicAdventure. All we need next is the back cover for a completion.

Sonic, thanks for all your hard work on this! 🙂

it now has colour, real dynamics, a marvellous stage impression, the violins now sound like violins (and the synth like a synth), the bass is deep and very strong but not droning and the synthetic elements are very well integrated.

Interesting.. It makes me want to hear your take on a Zimmer score session, like Pirates of the Caribbean or something.

Interesting.. It makes me want to hear your take on a Zimmer score session, like Pirates of the Caribbean or something.

Second

Very nice. My ears are happy. Thanks Sonic.

You know, I’ve never seen or listened to the music from Salt, but I’m such a fan of all your deluxe editions that I just had to download this one! Can’t wait to hear Chamber of Secrets and anything else you might have in store!

Thank you for sharing it, SonicAdventure. All we need next is the back cover for a completion.

Back cover? It�s inside the archive. In fact, you can choose between three.

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Interesting.. It makes me want to hear your take on a Zimmer score session, like Pirates of the Caribbean or something.

Ugh… the first cannot be improved, I�ve tried some years ago. But it might be different with the sessions which I haven�t downloaded. The second sounds pretty much OK, as does the third. Now the fourth is easily the best sounding so that wouldn�t need improvement. And I don�t like these scores much so I probably won�t do them, sorry.

thanks 🙂

Once again you’ve blown me away SonicAdventure! Perfection! You are an audiophile’s Godsend with this sort of thing! Thank you once again!

I see them now, Sonic Adventure. Thanks for modifying the deluxe complete film score.

Now is this different from kgray’s version? If so, how? Just curious.

Now is this different from kgray’s version? If so, how? Just curious.

Everthing technical is explained in the first post. Kgray’s version were sessions. Those are not mastered, meaning they aren�t ready for casual listening. Mastering prepares these sessions for official release by doing volume corrections, equalizing, dynamic alteration/control, editing/obmitting, sometimes remixing and removal of errors. All of this is done to – ideally – improve the cohesion of the score. That way it can be enjoyed without the need to turn the volume knob much, to skip a track ahead (because of long pauses), you can listen to it without interruptions and you�ll understand everything. It�s generally done to ‘tighten’ the impression of a score, to improve its flow. All of this was done by me for this release.

Thank you so much SonicAdventure! I’m loving what I’m hearing!

Back cover? It�s inside the archive. In fact, you can choose between three.

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Ugh… the first cannot be improved, I�ve tried some years ago. But it might be different with the sessions which I haven�t downloaded. The second sounds pretty much OK, as does the third. Now the fourth is easily the best sounding so that wouldn�t need improvement. And I don�t like these scores much so I probably won�t do them, sorry.

What about TRON Legacy? The sound’s probably pretty good already, but outside of the shrine, I have seen that one in ALAC.

What about TRON Legacy? The sound’s probably pretty good already, but outside of the shrine, I have seen that one in ALAC.

I�ll do TRON: Legacy but it might take a while… I think I�ve downloaded the lossless files… but I don�t know exactly right now. Still, would like to do ‘Signs’, ‘Small Soldiers’ and ‘Chamber of Secrets’ first.

Swweeettt! Atlantis, A.I., and Salt will definitely tide me over for now.

Chamber of Secrets’ first.

Weren’t those confirmed to be lossy WAV’s files?

This is awesome SonicAdventure! I enjoy and appreciate all the things you share here. Thanks again. 🙂

You’re doing a great service remastering all these scores, Sonic.
Can you please, if you take requests, remaster The Dark Knight (I don’t think those sessions were ever mastered) & The Dark Knight Rises? 😀

Thank you for another great share.

Weren’t those confirmed to be lossy WAV’s files?

Yes, they were. But I can do something about it 😉

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You’re doing a great service remastering all these scores, Sonic.
Can you please, if you take requests, remaster The Dark Knight (I don’t think those sessions were ever mastered) & The Dark Knight Rises? 😀

That�s easy: no, never 🙂

thank you very much! i very like the versions you make!

This is so sweet! Well Done!!

Thanks so much for this!

Thanks a lot,

Yes, i love the Score of Small Soldier & i hope you upload your Deluxe Edtion soon. 😉

Thank you for your technical info

Many thanks

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http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0WJ88CX5/UtahSaltFlats.part1.rar_links
http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/NETFIYEP/UtahSaltFlats.part2.rar_links

Pass: RussianGal

Links don’t work for me. 🙁

Links don’t work for me. 🙁

You�re the first to report this, I have no idea why it isn�t working for you. I always test my uploads by downloading them and I didn�t have any problems whatsoever.

Just to let you know ive just listened to it. A very thrilling listen. TBH i did enjoy the sessions more apposed to the commercial release and thought ‘well this is all i need’ and now after listening to your deluxe i now think ‘This is the ultimate listen’. Everything just seems more alive and colourful. Bass is tight and instruments are a lot more vibrant (if thats the right word). The soundstage is absolutely top notch and its powerful without being overpowering. The sessions now sound like the music is smothered and desperate to escape.

Well done sonic!

oh almost forgot. The merged tracks are a nice touch and compliment the master especially ‘Chase Across DC’ and ‘Garroted & Aerial Inquisition’ which merges into ‘Go Get ‘Em’. 😉

Thanks for this and nice password btw :fabulousbatman:

You’re doing a great service remastering all these scores, Sonic.
Can you please, if you take requests, remaster The Dark Knight (I don’t think those sessions were ever mastered) & The Dark Knight Rises? 😀

That�s easy: no, never 🙂

… Didn’t I told and explained to him long and large already ?!

Oh, well. Now he’s sure. Lol

… Didn’t I told and explained to him long and large already ?!

Oh, well. Now he’s sure. Lol

You know what I mean 😉

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Just to let you know ive just listened to it. A very thrilling listen. TBH i did enjoy the sessions more apposed to the commercial release and thought ‘well this is all i need’ and now after listening to your deluxe i now think ‘This is the ultimate listen’. Everything just seems more alive and colourful. Bass is tight and instruments are a lot more vibrant (if thats the right word). The soundstage is absolutely top notch and its powerful without being overpowering. The sessions now sound like the music is smothered and desperate to escape.

Well done sonic!

oh almost forgot. The merged tracks are a nice touch and compliment the master especially ‘Chase Across DC’ and ‘Garroted & Aerial Inquisition’ which merges into ‘Go Get ‘Em’. 😉

Thank you. And that�s exactly what I always thought: smothered and desperate to escape. Very good expression!

You really like the merged tracks? I was unsure about ‘Garroted’ & ‘Go Get ‘Em’ but it worked so nicely… both have the same tonality and it seems as if they were composed to be crossfaded because the outro of one track had the same length as the intro of the other track. So I thought… improve the flow and combine them.

Thanks!

You�re the first to report this, I have no idea why it isn�t working for you. I always test my uploads by downloading them and I didn�t have any problems whatsoever.

Probably coz the files have been deleted now?? Trust me, I have nothing against you man. Jdownloader reports it as "offline". 😉

Probably coz the files have been deleted now?? Trust me, I have nothing against you man. Jdownloader reports it as "offline". 😉

I really don�t know what happens with other systems… but I have exactly seven filehosters still hosting the files, they�re online (using JDownloader).

Once again many thanks Sonic, you are spoiling us!

With all you’ve done maybe James Newton Howard would be kind enough to PM you and thank you. Haha. 😉

Ok, had a chance to listen to it, great work indeed. Chase across DC is a wonderful track, powerful, exciting, truly my favorite from this set. You also merged the ending in a wonderful way.
great, great work.

Hey Sonic,

If you don’t mind, what is the name of the font you use for "The Deluxe Edition" text on your covers? I’d like to use it on some of the covers I make but haven’t been able to figure it out.

I love your releases, wish I knew more technical terms to describe them but, I don’t. Your stuff sounds better then the offical releases to my ears so thanks for the time and effort.

I really don�t know what happens with other systems… but I have exactly seven filehosters still hosting the files, they�re online (using JDownloader).

6 hosts. I can confirm both parts have links still living and active at Freakshare, Bitshare, SendMyWay, Get,It, Gamefront and Hipfile. I just went through and tested the link for both parts on all of them.

Hey Sonic,

If you don’t mind, what is the name of the font you use for "The Deluxe Edition" text on your covers? I’d like to use it on some of the covers I make but haven’t been able to figure it out.

I love your releases, wish I knew more technical terms to describe them but, I don’t. Your stuff sounds better then the offical releases to my ears so thanks for the time and effort.

Thank you. And the font I use for the ‘Deluxe Edition’ is called "Federation", a very simple (and I assume of low quality) font initially developed for the Star Trek movies featuring the Next Generation.

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6 hosts. I can confirm both parts have links still living and active at Freakshare, Bitshare, SendMyWay, Get,It, Gamefront and Hipfile. I just went through and tested the link for both parts on all of them.

Thanks, dear, for confirming it.

BTW, I�ve looked into the TRON:Legacy sessions and I found that I have downloaded the mp3 versions. If I�m going to do a Deluxe Ed. out of the sessions it won�t be like the music that is used in the movie (Metroyoko is way better at this), it�ll be something like an ‘un’-original soundtrack attempting to turn the sessions into something that can be enjoyed, nothing more.

Looks amazing. Eager to listen. Thank you very much.

thank you

Thanks Sonic. I’m downloading right now, can’t wait to give it a listen!

Thanks.

BTW, I�ve looked into the TRON:Legacy sessions and I found that I have downloaded the mp3 versions. If I�m going to do a Deluxe Ed. out of the sessions it won�t be like the music that is used in the movie (Metroyoko is way better at this), it�ll be something like an ‘un’-original soundtrack attempting to turn the sessions into something that can be enjoyed, nothing more.

If you ever want to do a Williams, Far and Away might be a good one, the unreleased material from the V2 boot, is lower quality than the OST, but there is no really bad hiss in it.

Great effort, many thanks!

Thank, SonicAdventure.

thanks for the hard work on this release

Links are dead. Anyone would be so kind to reupload?

Links are dead. Anyone would be so kind to reupload?
Both ge.tt links just worked for me.

Links are really dead beacouse don’t work for me…

As stated by FictionSource, the ge.tt links still work. 🙂

Thanks.

Oh snap!! This is fantastic!! Thanks so much for doing this and sharing it, SonicAdventure! I really like this score and have never heard anything other than the official release, which I bought. Can’t wait to give this a listen. You rock!

And, obviously, the links still work. I used the ge.tt links.

Can anyone please supply me with this? The Get it page just keeps timing out on me and won’t load. 🙁

I laugh every time someone tries to master sessions. Don’t, invest the time into buying better equipment capable of studio level dynamic range presentation at listening volumes. The unmastered sessions are often the best a score will ever sound assuming you have the right gear and any kind of mastering you inflict is often worse. You’ve used digital gain controls which alone degrade the source quality too much. Just saying.

I laugh every time someone tries to master sessions. Don’t, invest the time into buying better equipment capable of studio level dynamic range presentation at listening volumes. The unmastered sessions are often the best a score will ever sound assuming you have the right gear and any kind of mastering you inflict is often worse. You’ve used digital gain controls which alone degrade the source quality too much. Just saying.

Digital gain control degrades the sources’ quality? Darling, we don�t live in the ’80s anymore. Today, we have 32 bit floating point (in my case 64 bit floating point) mastering equipment and software.

Besides, the gain control would be the least of your problems when it concerns my releases.

I use (not necessarily in that order and not all the time):

– EQ
– stereo phase tools
– resampler
– dynamic compressors
– denoisers
– declickers
– etc.

Those are much, much more hurtful than a mere digital volume control (if used incorrectly).

Thanks very much!!

thaaaaanks sonic !!!!

thanks Sonic

Get it still up and working, Thanks a bundle…..for the bundle.

It appears the links are down, can someone reup?

Thank you very much! 🙂

Thank you s o much for this.

A cover that I made awhile ago, and then forgot about. haha

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The GetIt worked. Thanks! 🙂

Thanks 🙂

Yep, get.it links are still online. Thanks for this one! 🙂

Thank you.
It seems that the only link working is GE.TT
Why don’t original Music Labels do a good-work?

As ever, I appreciate your works, SonicAdventure. Fantastic jobs!!!
Huge thanks for sharing it, my friend!!! 🙂

Thank you very much!!

Mega Reupload:

FLAC (https://mega.nz/#!p89ngJoS!SHLio3eTQaJFvIReGqa0S_2nJnF6oxo9SaYT_JCNTyQ)

MP3 (https://mega.nz/#!Vk1DHLxZ!Ir972xm2-0WdPlFV_3JtOaTe6iulYxbv8wKwzaLcY_Y)

Password: RussianGal (same as Sonic’s) Thanks to Sonic for the original release.

Thanks Sonic for all the work you did on this and thank you Howard for the Mega link!

Thanks for the re-up

Many Thanks for the re-up and to the original poster!

Mega Reupload:

FLAC (https://mega.co.nz/#!Zg8WALBA!3RPTi1iplrkBcLgqiG1CsbTfbhdU1ICK1i15dC_ A_60)

MP3 (https://mega.co.nz/#!Etl1RLxY!hTE3034GHjZiymBzJNTis6GKu6wC3cG8VN5dGIK Dpao)

Password: RussianGal (same as Sonic’s) Thanks to Sonic for the original release.

Thank you for the mp3. And thanks Sonic for this work 🙂
I was never into James Newton Howard. Never, I disliked his music… but when I saw this movie back in 2010… I was shocked the soundtrack was him.
Damn I love this soundtrack

Thanks

Many thanks to Sonic and MrSlicey for the reup.

Thanks for the share.

thanks I had missed this one!

thanks sonic!!

Please post more, Sonic, we’re missing you.

Please post more, Sonic, we’re missing you.

Oh, but I’m still here 🙂

Can someone please repulgad this? Thank you very much in advance.

@gary 1991: See Mr. Slicey’s post above (dated 04-17-2015) for active MEGA links.
@Mr. Slicey: Thank you very much!!

Thanks for the reupload, Mr Slicey! They were dead the other day.

links dead.. re-up possible?

Thanks Sonic for this edition and to Mr. Slicey for the re-up!

Thanks!!

Amazing, as always! Many Thanks, SonicAdventure, and to Mr. Slicey for the re-up!

Damn, this is down again! Could anyone re-up, please ? New computer, had no backup… Yes, I know, lesson learned for the next time. 🙁

Thanks for the re-upload and thanks to Sonic for the original upload.

Thank you alot!

did not realise i missed this thank you sonic! & slicey for the reup

Many thanks to Mr. Slicey for the reup and Sonic for the original, much appreciated 🙂
Reps left where system will let me 🙂

Thanks for your work and the share.

Thanks

Mega Reupload:

FLAC (https://mega.nz/#!p89ngJoS!SHLio3eTQaJFvIReGqa0S_2nJnF6oxo9SaYT_JCNTyQ)

MP3 (https://mega.nz/#!Vk1DHLxZ!Ir972xm2-0WdPlFV_3JtOaTe6iulYxbv8wKwzaLcY_Y)

Password: RussianGal (same as Sonic’s) Thanks to Sonic for the original release.

Thanks Sonic & Slicey.

Thanks!

Thanks!!

Thanks a lot.

thank you.

Thank you very much for sharing.

Thanks OP and re-up champ!

Many thanks, dude. I’ve been looking for this.