The Bounty (1984) (Vangelis) (Blu-Ray) with Isolated Score Track

I just found out about this

It says it has an "Isolated Score Track" "THE BOUNTY required extensive music and audio restoration"

THE BOUNTY (1984) — SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT (http://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/28645/THE-BOUNTY-1984/)

I really hope it is finally a good sounding version of Vangelis’ Masterpiece

I have no clue why this has never had at least a good album release

Nice! Even if it didn’t have the isolated track I’d still buy it for the commentary.

Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers.

Sweet! they shipped this today

Good news, the bluray has the "isolates score track".

while waiting I made some covers 🙂 (and found)

I prefer the first cover, it’s a classic.

I can report that it sounds GREAT!

Update 1: songs from the time period are film versions with sfx and volume changes (if anybody cares)

Update 2: what is in the isolated track is, what you might call the film version, so in the old bootleg some tracks would be longer

Great news… it could be better (full length tracks), but great news.

Have a Listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJPUPPj_dY

I have just listened to it right now, while i was doing other things, so I did not pay too much attention, but I didn’t notice nothing wrong, and was great.
It’s an atmospheric score in a long time, with the rhythmics and quiet Main and End Titles.

I must listen to it again with headphones.

I’ve heard it with headphones, from youtube, and the sound quality is fine. It’s a long time that I haven’t listened to the bootlegs, but I’m pretty sure that the sound quality is better (from youtube!!).

20 minutes more and we’ll have much more that a decent soundtrack, rounding the 45 minutes length.

Just to be clear

the 24min video I put on youtube is only a quality sample (of the full film version)

the full film version taken from the blu-ray (Twilight Time) is 1hr 5min (period songs not included)

the old bootleg version is 1hr 32min (period songs not included)

Just to be clear… and loud: O-H — M-Y — G-O-D!!

That would be more than a decent disc.
If some tracks

As I understand it, the tracks are only in MONO… 😡

As I understand it, the tracks are only in MONO… 😡

I just ran a test on my "Line-In" recordings it says "Left and Right channels are correlated by 97%"

so yes it is mono

I know this is not the sharing part of the forum but can anyone who has it share the unedited isolated score file (via PM)?

that would be great 🙂

This is a 1min sample of a test I did

https://mega.co.nz/#!Z51FHBDL!41lEy-FyS1nu1RWgdC3KCtFK7ICejiQ5QvT8SjRlFp8

what do you think sounds better, the first 30sec or the last 30sec?

Can’t say what’s better. Both sounds ok to me.
But the first part is in mono, the 2nd part is in stereo.
Question is now, did you convert the mono stream into stereo or have you used a stereo source for this part?

both are from the mono source (Line-In Recordings), but I used some tricks to make it sound stereo in the 2nd part

what I did is

1.turned original mono into 2 channels
2.offset left channel by 30ms
3.right channel Bass -2 & Treble +2
4.left channel Bass +2 & Treble -2

Will you be able to convert the entire soundtrack for sharing?

both are from the mono source (Line-In Recordings), but I used some tricks to make it sound stereo in the 2nd part

what I did is

1.turned original mono into 2 channels
2.offset left channel by 30ms
3.right channel Bass -2 & Treble +2
4.left channel Bass +2 & Treble -2

I don’t think it’s a good idea to alter the audio in that way. Keep it like it is.

What do you mean with "Line-In Recording" – have you recorded the isolated stream?
Why haven’t you demuxed the isolated score stream with eac3to ?

the only thing I have that has a blu-ray drive is my Playstation 3, so I play the the blu-ray and plug the PS3 audio cables in the back of my pc

I’ve heard the sample, and think the first one (the real mono) sounds better (although mono), but maybe it’s a question of equalization on the second part.
It’s strange that the soundtrack in the bluray is in mono.

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Another lost opportunity of having this score as one would expect.
Always misleading consumers by offering mediocre quality.

I should be capable doing a 1hr (approximate) film version that would sound like the quality of the first half of this track (although I still have a few things I need to test)

https://mega.co.nz/#!Zh9VDZxZ!dvuKLqI3MqrgsPeVrVLC8M_wv67R5AGZcic-jPH8qWA

Interested?

I should be capable doing a 1hr (approximate) film version that would sound like the quality of the first half of this track (although I still have a few things I need to test)

https://mega.co.nz/#!Zh9VDZxZ!dvuKLqI3MqrgsPeVrVLC8M_wv67R5AGZcic-jPH8qWA

Interested?

Yes, please.

Cool! I am glad you like it 🙂

I will be working on it when I can (it is quite slow going)

I will create a new thread when done (and link it here)

INTERESTED.
cool, good news.

Cool! I am glad you like it 🙂

I will be working on it when I can (it is quite slow going)

I will create a new thread when done (and link it here)

Go ahead 🙂

I started a thread here

Thread 187965

the only thing I have that has a blu-ray drive is my Playstation 3, so I play the the blu-ray and plug the PS3 audio cables in the back of my pc

RCA jacks?

Unfortunate that’s the only method available to you.

Even more unfortunate the pirate world doesn’t really have this bluray available.
I see only encodes out there with just the main audio track.

I strongly suggest that you should wait for someone who has the blu-ray disc to rip the isolated score so that you might work on that instead of working on a signal that will result in inferior quality as a matter of fact.
I take you are not familiar with Linux to hack your PS3.
It will be a pity after all the time you will be investing to learn that it could have been done better.
Having said that do wait for a PM once I get my copy.

I trust you got the message if you wish. 🙂

I strongly suggest that you should wait for someone who has the blu-ray disc to rip the isolated score so that you might work on that instead of working on a signal that will result in inferior quality as a matter of fact.

I am saving the project files, so if/when I get my hands on a better copy, it should be easy to just drop them into the project as most of the work is already done

I take you are not familiar with Linux to hack your PS3.

I am

However I have one of the "Slim" PS3s, my understanding is that won’t work on a "Slim" or newer versions, but I could be wrong I have not really looked into it

The Linux hack will work on the older firmware… and it is not too easy to figure that out anyway.

I will be receiving my copy in the next weeks hopefully. 🙂

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Poltergiest, I sent you a PM. Hope you received it. Thank you.

Bought the blu ray disc and mixed the end title theme here for example, see link. Gone through the entire score and mixed it all to this sound quality. Added pseudo stereo. Anybody interested in a link for the full score email me privately. I won’t share a link publicly https://mega.co.nz/#!J1JzyTiC!Yz7Sf4yL6vadCl0FsH4jNws-HjXSRQ0aV2wYq_oyeFA

What software do you use?

Bought the blu ray disc and mixed the end title theme here for example, see link. Gone through the entire score and mixed it all to this sound quality. Added pseudo stereo.[/url]

The stereo image misses a bit the center depth like that… but it does not sound too bad for a mono feed turned into stereo. 🙂

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Since no one cares to elaborate what sofware they’re using, I’ll forget about this for now.

Anyone skilled, not by your own definition, but who knows their software, I know who you are, please PM when something bit-exact has happened.

You’re doing a great job with this.

I’m ……

Poltergiest, I sent you a PM. Hope you received it. Thank you.

You are wasting your time. I have sent THREE, and got no response.

Hi. Sorry about that.

Since no one cares to elaborate what sofware they’re using, I’ll forget about this for now.

Anyone skilled, not by your own definition, but who knows their software, I know who you are, please PM when something bit-exact has happened.

Somehow I cannot seem to be able to PM you, but as far as software you might use I can answer that question.

Adobe Audition is quite to preferred choice when it comes to editing bits of audio streams off a DVD or Blu-ray.
Some might also use Audacity though the audio engine and included plug ins might not compete in terms of quality with Audition… or Cool Edit Pro which was its earlier form before Adobe bought it.
Audacity is freeware though.
I personally like to use Steinberg Cubase… iZotope Ozone and RX4… a bit too expensive e-licences… but there might be some unlimited demo versions out there for you to try and test before resolving to support the developers.

Hope it might help a bit. Anything else… drop a PM! 🙂