cRookie_Monster wrote:They could do the thing where you duplicate the stereo music in the surrounds, but that's all it would be. We only delivered stereo. They'd have to go back to Faulconer Productions Music to get true 5.1 music mixes. They'd have to load all the old sessions up, update the sessions to the software format...then remix to 5.1 The new mixes would then have to be re-edited into the shows.
It would be a major job to do properly and Funi and Faulconer's relationship is toast. Realistically the best you could hope for would probably be the surround duplicate method.
I was about to write: "
You should ask cRookie_Monster about that"
Making a proper 5.1 mix of Japanese score is even more impossible. FUNimation is using music-only mono tape, because this is (was) the only existing source of edited music. What they should do to create 5.1 mix is:
1. Find multitrack masters of all the music (latest news: 99% do not exist anymore).
2. Create a six-channel mixes (~6 hours of music for mixing and mastering - it is
way more time (and money) consuming to properly place the instruments on 6 channels than on 2 channels).
3. Ask Toei Animation (or kenisu3000
) for "music documentation" of each episode.
4. Produce new music-only tape by editing and placing all music pieces as they were originally placed.
I can guarantee you - you would be totally stunned by how this score originally sounds. I guess that the cost of this would be bigger than the season sets budget.
We have a similar, but a little bit different situation with SFXes. They are using the same kind of mono source, but judging by the action on the screen, they can change the placement of the source of each SFX (left, right, center etc.). This is the only thing that they can do "almost" properly. Of course, the effect would be way better if they would edit a new SFX track by using best quality masters from Fizz Sound Creation. Hell only knows if Toei Animation still keeps SFX documentation.
The fidelity of this music&effects tape is also a problem. High frequencies (~12-16kHz - those which make sound crisp and clear) are muffed by around 20dB (!!!) when compared to the original music masters. ~3dB difference and it does not meet the German DIN 45500 standard from 1966 (the well known Hi Fi). I'm not even mentioning about other distortions like: THD+N, IMD, wow and flutter, dynamic range degradation - they are way below this old norm.
Despite of how crazy all these descriptions above sound, I think that the fidelity of audio has a big influence on people's opinion about Kikuchi score. After hearing the original crispness and wide dynamic range, nobody would dare to say that this music is dull and boring. The issue with which we are dealing is not only for a nerdy, crazy and nitpicky audio extremists - the difference is easy noticeable for a normal person.
Overall: 5.1 track with Japanese score! = false advertisement. But who cares? It works!
sangofe wrote:(...) the cropping in this video wasn't very disturbing, even if it does make you lose footage.
I respect your opinion, but from my point of view the one is contrary to the other.
I hope that I will enjoy reading kaznenshuu review of this release
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. Always appreciate the real info, though.