DBGT Funi OP/ED instrumentals?

[yugidmx5]

Can anyone tell me did Funimation ever released their instrumental OP/ED themes of DBGT?

[TheBlackPaladin]

FUNimation's GT soundtrack has never been officially released, so no.

EDIT: Well, now that I'm thinking about it, I vaguely recall that they might have offered a free mp3 download of an extended version of their GT OP, vocals included. I'm not even sure about that, though. Whether that's true or not, nothing else on their GT soundtrack has been officially released, and those who do want it have resorted to extracting it from the 5.1 DVD audio mixes that contain it.

[yugidmx5]

FUNimation's GT soundtrack has never been officially released, so no.

EDIT: Well, now that I'm thinking about it, I vaguely recall that they might have offered a free mp3 download of an extended version of their GT OP, vocals included. I'm not even sure about that, though. Whether that's true or not, nothing else on their GT soundtrack has been officially released, and those who do want it have resorted to extracting it from the 5.1 DVD audio mixes that contain it.

Too bad. I liked some of their instrumentals better than originals. And if there were full versions, that would have been great if they released it on a album. Thanks for the reply!

[DB1984]

Here is the "What is GT?" page from back in 2003, where the copies of Step Into the Grand Tour likely came from.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030409192 ... ?page=what

[Valerius Dover]

If I'm not mistaken, I think the OP is talking about the English versions Dan Dan and the rest, not Step Into the Grand Tour. In which case, I'm pretty sure there are no isolated instrumentals of those anywhere.

[TheBlackPaladin]

If I'm not mistaken, I think the OP is talking about the English versions Dan Dan and the rest, not Step Into the Grand Tour. In which case, I'm pretty sure there are no isolated instrumentals of those anywhere.

Ohhhhhhh......well, if that's what the OP meant, then my answer is slightly different.

I say "slightly" because ultimately, the truth is still that the dubbed versions of the Japanese songs were not officially released either, so it's a no-go on the instrumentals there as far as official releases are concerned. However, it may still be possible to get instrumentals by extracting them from the 5.1 audio mixes on the DVDs. I remember somebody posted a vocals-only version of FUNimation's dub of "Hitori Janai" once. If the vocals were given their own channel in the 5.1 mix, it's possible the instrumental tracks were given their own channels as well.

So to get the instrumentals, two things would need to happen:
1) You'd need to get the 5.1 audio mix from a DVD, with all of the separated tracks, onto your computer.
2) You'd have to pray that the engineer mixed it in such a way that they gave the instrumentals their own channels and didn't put anything else on those particular channels (like SFX, vocal echoes, etc). I'd say the odds of this being the case are 50/50.

[yugidmx5]

I checked the DVDs unfortunately there are backing vocals on the track. At least there's acapella as consolation prize which is not very common on DVDs of dubbed OP's/ED's.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Well, if it's any consolation, there are official releases of the original Japanese songs, including official releases of instrumental-only tracks.

I know that's not much of a consolation, since that's not what you asked...it probably also doesn't help that the version of the instrumentals used in the anime is not the same as the version used on the CD release.

It's very rare for dubbed songs to get an official release. By no means unheard of, of course--Disney has allowed the release of dubbed songs in their movies on CD and on iTunes--but for the most part, it doesn't happen. In this case, FUNimation only licensed the anime and the music as it appears in the show, for exclusive use in the show itself as it was originally used. To make separate, official releases of dubbed songs would require that FUNimation license the music from whatever music label currently has the rights, pay licensing fees, and on top of that, send a cut of whatever profits they'd make from selling the dubbed songs back to the music label that holds the rights to the original songs. Apparently they're not even allowed to credit the English dub singers...which is odd, because they allow the singers to talk about it on social media, as well as mention it on their company blog.

[yugidmx5]

Yeah , unfortunately those music copyright laws are very strict. It does make me wonder if they'll dub DB Super OP/ED which I highly doubt.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Eh, I think they will. It seems like the only Dragon Ball anime they haven't dubbed songs for is DBZ.

[DB1984]

I know that's not much of a consolation, since that's not what you asked...it probably also doesn't help that the version of the instrumentals used in the anime is not the same as the version used on the CD release.

Too bad. I actually think the GT version is better than the officially-released version. Same thing with Ending 2, Don't You See!.

Blue Velvet and Rusted Machine Gun were left as is, recording-wise, but were obviously shortened.

[Valerius Dover]

Yeah , unfortunately those music copyright laws are very strict. It does make me wonder if they'll dub DB Super OP/ED which I highly doubt.

They definitely won't. As far as I know, they haven't dubbed any OP or ED songs in anything since the situation with Season 4 of One Piece, and I don't think that's a coincidence. Dragon Ball Z Kai was just before that. The songs will be left as is, just like every other anime they dub nowadays.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Yeah , unfortunately those music copyright laws are very strict. It does make me wonder if they'll dub DB Super OP/ED which I highly doubt.

They definitely won't. As far as I know, they haven't dubbed any OP or ED songs in anything since the situation with Season 4 of One Piece, and I don't think that's a coincidence. Dragon Ball Z Kai was just before that. The songs will be left as is, just like every other anime they dub nowadays.

Well, they may not, but the One Piece songs are from the music label Avex Trax, which sent out a universal "do not dub our songs" mandate a few years ago (even the German dub, which had previously been dubbing all One Piece songs, suddenly stopped doing so). The Dragon Ball songs are handled by Columbia Records, who aren't as strict. Plus, if a TV deal is part of the picture, the network execs will almost certainly demand a dubbed opening so that the show will appeal to kids (because TV network execs still live in the stone age and think that kids will be put off by "foreign stuff")...apparently, when it came time to choose which dubbed version of Dragon Soul would go on the TV-edited version of Kai, it was a joint decision between FUNimation and Nicktoons.