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Dec 17, 2014 - 12:38 AM
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DanH
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It was the same size orchestra as just a about every other orchestral score for the series.
Ford A. Thaxton
So about 45 players (minus Brian Tyler playing another 12 instruments)? That's just amazing how he got such a big sound from so few players. Most blockbusters these days do sound as big as his score.
Speaking of which, I firmly believed the best music in the modern Trek era was those first 4 seasons of TNG before the Bermanizer took full effect. They had an epic scope to them that was rendered out of them to be bland. Even McCarthy's Generations score wasn't as thrilling as the one he wrote for Encounter at Farpoint or Arsenal of Freedom that we thankfully got this year.
DS9 edged closer, but still sounded a bit hemmed in. They got to cut loose a little more, but there's still quite a bit of drone. I assume it'll be the same story for Voyager, but I'll reserve comment for that when we get it.
I think this Enterprise set made me eat my words a bit, and for that I'm elated. While I wish they didn't have to go synths for the last season, they still every bit as much energy and soul that those early TNG scores had that I loved so much.
I love the comment Jay Chattaway made in the liner notes that his "new sound" was a tape of all the bits they made him cut out in earlier years. Everything came together and the Chattaway disc is probably my favorite out of all of them in this set. It burns that he was really this great all along and had to mellow out his sound. You could sense that from Tin Man, but Enterprise finally allowed to bring this sound back (and can we get that cut material from Tin Man he mentioned in the Season 5 TNG bluray set please?). He's got that gift that Ron Jones has where he can marry the orchestra and the synths to where they aren't fighting one another, but blend perfectly together providing much more depth than either side had alone.
Watching the episodes that Velton Ray Bunch scored made me want the soundtracks right there. I really would have loved hearing him uncorked. He's easily the best thing Scott Bakula added to the show.
I do feel a small amount of shame in admitting this, but can I keep my man card and still say I loved Twilight? 
All in all, thanks for finally getting this to us, and when's Volume 2? There's still a lot more good stuff you had to leave off....
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Was all of ENT season 4 synth? I haven' t watched the show in a while.
No, some episodes were done electronically, but others were a mix of the two elements and there were a number of full Orchestra scores as well.
Ford A. Thaxton
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"Main Title" is a previously unreleased mix, designated "70mm" on all our tapes. The "35mm" mix is closer to the film version (it may be the film version) and is the "alt 2" on disc 2. The reason for that decision is because we used the "35mm" mix there in 2010. It's the same take (note the squeak at the start, it's there in the movie, too) just a different mix.
The film version of "Shootout" does not have a piano, as mentioned in the notes. I was surprised to discover that when I was putting this together. It's prominent on the album but it's not used in the film. I compared the mixes to the film stem and you could actually see the piano hits in the waveform on the album but not on the stem or the film mix.
Neil
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(note the squeak at the start, it's there in the movie, too)
I love details like this, meaning I love when these things are pointed out. Music Detectives!
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The new album has the film mix while the 2010 album used the album mix. Same performance take.
Neil
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Dec 18, 2014 - 9:13 PM
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Max Waxman
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The Danny Elfman Batman Collection is absolutely fantastic! One of the best soundtrack sets ever released, I think. I found just one tiny, little flaw that is no big deal: CD 4, Track 1 ("Umbrella Source" etc.) has digital glitches in the left audio channel, at 1:29, 3:06, 4:45, and 6:20. Since the master of "Batman Returns" is identical to the one used on the previous double-CD set, owners of that set can just rip that track from the old version, which does not have those glitches.
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The Danny Elfman Batman Collection is absolutely fantastic! One of the best soundtrack sets ever released, I think. I found just one tiny, little flaw that is no big deal: CD 4, Track 1 ("Umbrella Source" etc.) has digital glitches in the left audio channel, at 1:29, 3:06, 4:45, and 6:20. Since the master of "Batman Returns" is identical to the one used on the previous double-CD set, owners of that set can just rip that track from the old version, which does not have those glitches.
I heard this exact same glitch. Any chance LLL will repress the disc?
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