The soundtrack album to James Horner's beautiful "Balto" was released in 1995, a time when producers and sound engineers liked to showcase CD dynamics.
Such dynamic CDs, however, are not very enjoyable, especially with some environment noise around. Frequently you have to turn up your volume to really hear the quiet passages only to blow your speakers or your eardrums a few seconds later when the orchestral "tutti" starts.
The Balto CD was especially annoying in that regard, which is the reason I did not play this fine Horner score very often.

For this release, I compressed the tracks carefully, trying to balance dynamics with accessability.
I hope you like the result.

https://1fichier.com/?ikrq4vswat



(image originally posted by JHFan)

Same problem with Willow. I’m pretty excited to listen to your work on Balto, Kobayashi-Maru. Thank you very much for sharing this!

Thanks a lot

Thanks.

The same reasons you cited are the very reasons why I hadn't listened to it either. Looking very forward to listening to it. Thanks.

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Same problem with Willow. I’m pretty excited to listen to your work on Balto, Kobayashi-Maru. Thank you very much for sharing this!
I couldn't agree more. I keep waiting for a label to bestow us with the deluxe treatment of Willow but to no avail as of yet.

Please give feedback about my efforts. I'll do "Willow" as well, if you wish.

Uncanny! I was just thinking the other day about how horrible this CD sounds. Thank you!

I did Willow a while back, and even split up the longest cues. Haven't listened to it in forever, though.

I did Willow a while back, and even split up the longest cues. Haven't listened to it in forever, though.

JHFan, did you ever share it? I don't remember seeing it. Your work is always amazing. I've been enjoying the Customer Complete Score from Jumanji! :-)

Generally, I use the Audiostocker plug-in for Winamp to overcome such issues. Thanks for the share though! :)

Please give feedback about my efforts. I'll do "Willow" as well, if you wish.

That would be awesome! I love Willow, but I don't love the mixing. Ends up giving me a headache! :-P

good job kobayashi-Maru

JHFan, did you ever share it? I don't remember seeing it. Your work is always amazing. I've been enjoying the Customer Complete Score from Jumanji! :-)

No I never shared it. I've done a lot of subtle things to a lot of albums but haven't shared them.

Thank you so much for this! As you and others noted, the original CD renders a terrific score into a rather difficult listening experience.

You rock! This is awesome! Thank you for this!

Thanks.

Thanks!

Thanks :)

6 links for an album ? LOL :)

Anyway, thanks a lot ! It's always a pleasure to discover 1995's score from J.Horner... One of my favorite Horner's score is Braveheart, 1995.

Willow is also one of my favorite Horner's score, so please... Give us a new edition ! :) It will be great.

6 links for an album ? LOL :)

Well, here's the reason for this: I live in a rather underdeveloped country and have to go through some effort to upload anything. While uploading "Balto" my connection broke several times.
Sorry for your inconvenience.


No I never shared it. I've done a lot of subtle things to a lot of albums but haven't shared them.
Please do! I think you'll make quite a few members happy, including myself.
Especially your work on "Troy" (which we discussed in private lately) would be very welcome !

I'm doing a quick pass on Willow right now.

Thank you! This is probably one of my favorite animated films when I was a kid. Love the score. :)

Thank you share!

6 links for an album ? LOL :)

Anyway, thanks a lot ! It's always a pleasure to discover 1995's score from J.Horner... One of my favorite Horner's score is Braveheart, 1995.

Willow is also one of my favorite Horner's score, so please... Give us a new edition ! :) It will be great.

I thought the same, but the links dl fast (minutes for me) and no wait, so no big.

Thanks for your work and taking the troubles of the upload, Kobayashi-Maru. I hadn't listened many times to this one, but it's a nice album that I'll play more often, because your changes are very welcome. And despite my skills of audio editing are close to absolute zero, I'm curious about how you did the compression: was it globally, in a per-track basis, maybe even more specific?

I hope you don't mind that I added your avatar to the images I'm embedding in your version:

Dear kooke, thanks for the nice custom cover :-)
I did overall compression using the foobar2000 software, which is actually a media player, but with incredible sound engineering power. For your convenience, I separated the tracks afterwards. For myself, I would have made one single long track, since I like to listen to soundtrack albums continuously as I would listen to a symphony.
Track-by-Track compression would have made no difference, though, due to the clear separation of the tracks on this particular album.

THX for your effort!
Can't wait to rediscover that remastered amazing score ^^

My pleasure, Kobayashi-Maru. I'd rather say "the nice cover I slightly customized", though; lots of respect to the good artists on the forum. ;)

It's interesting how you did the compression. There are many people that like foobar2000 but its possibilities for audio editing were news to me. Naturally, it compresses also the live sound, right? Then double thanks for having edited it for us, and also for splitting in individual tracks. I listen to complete albums too, but prefer the tracks splitted, to be able to edit the tags info and ReplayGain values for each one. But lossless formats allow the splitting and rejoining, so that's not a problem for anyone.

Again, thanks for the cool contribution, and... you know... "keep up the good work".

i just use foobar as a music player : guess i am missing a lot, but i have very nice other tools :)

OMG!!! Thank you very, very much Kobayashi-Maru!!! :)

Can we please have a re-upload? :)

By request: Link updated.

Thank you so much for re-uploading this. Now, I can enjoy it, again! :)

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Downloaded. Will listen tomorrow. Goodnight, and thanks again!

Thank you Kobayashi-Maru

Hmm, the link doesn't seem to be working for me...

(http://www.imagebam.com/image/00c208418038218)

you should be able to scroll down to the orange download button...

[QUOTE=Zoran;2989750]Hmm, the link doesn't seem to be working for me...

LOL, I see that now...thanks.

Thank you so much! This has been one of my most listened to movie soundtracks for many years and I'm ecstatic how much more beautiful it sounds now after you fixed the tracks!


The soundtrack album to James Horner's beautiful "Balto" was released in 1995, a time when producers and sound engineers liked to showcase CD dynamics.
Such dynamic CDs, however, are not very enjoyable, especially with some environment noise around. Frequently you have to turn up your volume to really hear the quiet passages only to blow your speakers or your eardrums a few seconds later when the orchestral "tutti" starts.
The Balto CD was especially annoying in that regard, which is the reason I did not play this fine Horner score very often.
Jame Horner's "Once Upon A Forest" CD has the same problem. I hate having to keep adjusting the volume because the soft music in some parts is too low!

Thanks for this!

Thank you!!

Any chance of a re-up for this version? I have always thought my CD copy had volume with too great extremes.

anyone have this?

Would love a reupload, please.

I second, a Reupload D: This was my favorite movie as a kid

re-up, please. thanks