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Am I the only one, who'd like to see photos of all this "optical tracks/1/2", 1/4", acetates"?
And equipment, which Mike (and the rest wizards of music) used while they work on this great scores?
I'd enjoy that, too. The making-of video promoting LLL's Star Trek TOS box showed the actual reels of audio tape. I wish vintage soundtrack releases in general would include a photo along those lines so we could see what the studio had physically archived all those years.
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I've never been able to deal with loading images here because it needs to link to a URL. It's not something I have time to figure out!
Re: a few points above... we never used stems for Alien. There was a DAT floating around that was used for the Goldsmith box set, but when the Intrada release came around we found the 1" 4-track rolls. For Empire and the Rhino Superman, it was not "stems," technically but the "mixing units" as i described earlier... so while the edits were already there (or were on "checker boarded" A/B reels) this material was created prior to volume adjustments being made for the mixing of the picture.
Mike M.
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Will there be another post on digital? I sure hope so.
We should have a little discussion of digital recording. Especially the vintage formats, like STAR TREK TMP and THE BLACK HOLE used.
A later but still vintage system that produced fine recordings was the Sony PCM-1610:
http://www.realhomerecording.com/docs/Sony_PCM-1610_brochure.pdf
It was used for the Label X STAR TREK re-recordings and possibly their Varese Sarabande counterparts, circa 1985. Perfect sound. What I think is especially nifty is that you had to hook up a VHS deck to the PCM unit, and the output was written to a cassette tape. Thus a video cassette was used just to capture digital audio.
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