New interviews on DBZ uncut site

DBW · Post by **DBW** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:18 am

The way Dragonball was meant to be seen...

- Blaring grunge-rock opening theme
- Highly emotional episode centered around Gohan
- Blaring grunge-rock closing theme

Like bread and butter FUNi, like bread and butter...

Mike D · Post by **Mike D** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:13 am

Let's just pray that this won't have any stupid dialogue.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:20 am

Blastero wrote:
"We took the sfx and music and remixed them in 5.1 surrond sound"

Ahem, EXCUSE ME? Remix what? I though they were starting completely from scratch on this.

they're talking about the Japanese version. And would you please calm down? Be happy were getting it here uncut to begin with. My ONLY complaint is that I think they're overhyping this way too much.

DBW · Post by **DBW** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:07 pm

Sun_Wukong wrote:
Blastero wrote:
"We took the sfx and music and remixed them in 5.1 surrond sound"

Ahem, EXCUSE ME? Remix what? I though they were starting completely from scratch on this.
they're talking about the Japanese version.

There's no way in hell they're mixing the Japanese track into 5.1ch surround. It's a mono track, end of story.

They're talking about the dub, and they are starting from scratch, but they still have to mix the audio into surround. It's not like they can just record surround sound. If I remember correctly, FUNi's dub is usually presented in 2.0ch stereo, so this is still a step up. Although I think they did 5.1ch Dolby Digital surround for movies 5 and up (as well as a 2.0ch mix).

Mattias · Post by **Mattias** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:17 pm

DBW wrote:The way Dragonball was meant to be seen...

- Blaring grunge-rock opening theme
- Highly emotional episode centered around Gohan
- Blaring grunge-rock closing theme

Like bread and butter FUNi, like bread and butter...

Cheers to FUNimation for targeting their Teen-Angst audience!

Xyex · Post by **Xyex** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:18 pm

It's not impossible to take Mono and make it surround, and it is possible that's what they're doing as that would involve re-mixing the audio. All that they would need are copies of the audio tracks, and then to time what comes through what speaker at what time.

DBW · Post by **DBW** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:10 pm

Well yeah, they could put dialogue primarily to the front, music primarily to the back, and then randomly throw the sound effects around the five channels. But then you have to ask yourself, "Why the hell would they waste time and money throwing a mono track around the room?" It would still be a mono track, only now it would be jumping around the speakers (which isn't a very pleasing surround sound experience).

Either way, there's still two problems. First, they don't have the ever-so-important .1 channel (the sub-woofer). And second, the three primary audio tracks (dialogue, music, and effects) simply aren't enough to make a worth-while 5.1 track (hence why Pony Canyon didn't bother to with the Dragon Boxes).

It's much better to just play mono tracks at their original levels across all five channels, and not mess around with a remix. Besides, if they did remix the Japanese audio, people are more likely to complain about it then to be happy about it.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:29 am

Yeah, attempting to remix the Japanese track into 5.1 would be extremly hard, right!? They don't have access to the original Japanese recordings from Toei anyways...

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:41 am

Did anyone see the 3rd interview where they explain why the cover art is red? Its pretty bad.

Heritic · Post by **Heritic** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:23 pm

For some reason that interview won't play all the way through. It just gets to a certain part and stops and nothing will make it start again. Bah, I don't care anyway.

So let me get this straight, they're remixing the dub audio and not the Japanese? Okay, I didn't really expect FUNi to do anything with the Japanese audio other than include it on the DVD anyway.

lost in thought · Post by **lost in thought** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:20 am

That shouldn't be surprising Heritic; as stated above the original track audio is Mono, and it would be difficult to mix it into surround sound. Even then I can't say what will happen, so we will have to see what FUNi does when the first volume releases, but FUNi hasn't done anything special to the original track before now to my knowledge, so I wouldn't expect it.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:07 am

Eh, my bad. I know absolutely nothing about DVD audio.

tealsmith · Post by **tealsmith** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:56 pm

Just watched the new interview with the voice director, who also wrote parts of the original dub. That interview was just horrible

And I swear, if I hear 'The Way It Was Meant To Be Seen!!!11!' ONE MORE TIME, I'm gonna freak out on someone.

SpaceKappa · Post by **SpaceKappa** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:50 am

They way it was MEANT to be seen is Japanese.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:47 am

Mizugi wrote:They way it was MEANT to be seen is Japanese.

And that is what we are getting! HALLELUJAH!

SaiyamanMS · Post by **SaiyamanMS** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:40 am

DBW wrote:The way Dragonball was meant to be seen...

- Blaring grunge-rock opening theme
- Highly emotional episode centered around Gohan
- Blaring grunge-rock closing theme

Like bread and butter FUNi, like bread and butter...

Well they did say "The way it was meant to be SEEN".... they never said anything about the way it was meant to be HEARD... XD

lost in thought · Post by **lost in thought** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:36 am

Speaking of hearing, I find it ironic that one of the interviewees go on saying how "all your favorites are back" and then listing off Sonny Strait, Chris Sabat, and Sean Schemmel; it's been my experience that the only 'favorite' on that list is Strait, and that most people prefer Ian Corlett as Goku, and Vegeta's original VA.

Then again maybe they weren't talking about the fans... maybe they meant Gen Fukanuga's. Heh.

Sebastian (SB) · Post by **Sebastian (SB)** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:16 pm

lost in thought wrote:Speaking of hearing, I find it ironic that one of the interviewees go on saying how "all your favorites are back" and then listing off Sonny Strait, Chris Sabat, and Sean Schemmel; it's been my experience that the only 'favorite' on that list is Strait, and that most people prefer Ian Corlett as Goku, and Vegeta's original VA.

Then again maybe they weren't talking about the fans... maybe they meant Gen Fukanuga's. Heh.

I actually like Chris Sabat as Vegeta better than the VA for Ocean Group. He just sounded like a squeaky little selfish coward to me. I mean he improved slightly at the Namek arc, but other than that no.

tealsmith · Post by **tealsmith** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:42 pm

lost in thought wrote:Speaking of hearing, I find it ironic that one of the interviewees go on saying how "all your favorites are back" and then listing off Sonny Strait, Chris Sabat, and Sean Schemmel; it's been my experience that the only 'favorite' on that list is Strait, and that most people prefer Ian Corlett as Goku, and Vegeta's original VA.

Then again maybe they weren't talking about the fans... maybe they meant Gen Fukanuga's. Heh.

I like Chris Sabat's Piccolo, my favourite voice in the entire dub. As a matter of fact, from what I've watched of the japanese original, Sabat's Piccolo is the only voice I actually think better suits the character over the original japanese voice actor.

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:48 pm

I dont have any problems with the voice actors, I can play the Budokai games without a problem. Its that damn english soundtrack, and the horrible lines given to the actors (okay so maybe Freeza does have an unfitting voice actor but its not as though that VA sucks, she did a great Genkai in Yu Yu, she just wasnt meant for Freeza).

Kanzenshuu

New interviews on DBZ uncut site

Re: New interviews on DBZ uncut site

Re: New interviews on DBZ uncut site