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  1. Intrada: CONAN THE BARBARIAN und CONAN THE DESTROYER von Basil Poledouris

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    Noch ne Info, technischer Natur von Doug.

    Here's possibly more info than you'd want but - yes - playing just the horn tracks during "Anvil" was chilling but, keep in mind, while 24-track masters do have individual instruments (flutes on one track, tuba on another, so forth) and various positions (overhead, left orchestra, right orchestra, etc.), the instrument assignments to their respective mikes also reflect the seating arrangement within the orchestra. As such, while you primarily hear oboes on their own track you also hear the instruments immediately to the right, left and back of them as well. You can re-mix everything and get certain details otherwise not evident with a mix from some thirty years ago, but you can't do crazy exaggerated things without damaging the overall orchestral sound as originally captured.

    Raising the trombones during the battle music might seem like a cool idea but it would also raise the trumpet players right behind them, and the tuba player to their left, throwing stuff out of balance. Yes, you can draw a little more out of them, but you still need to take the overall positions into consideration, which means your model is still what Basil and his engineers initially captured. In other words, please don't listen now for flute players to get up and walk over to the right or triangle players to move up in front of the orchestra and stuff like that... unless the engineers seemed to want that effect.

    Okay, truth be told, in a few places we couldn't help but subtly raise the level of the contra-bassoon and metallic percussion in a couple of key spots on some of the previously unreleased cues since the resulting sound itself was so awesome. But you can figure this is still "Basil's mix." All we did was blend all of those individual tracks into brand new two-track stereo mixes that are quieter and crisper, if you will, compared to what the analog mixes achieved back then. But the raw power and intensity of those sessions, especially the unique sounds from the variety of live percussion effects, was always on the tapes. Perhaps not quite as vivid as they are now but they were there. A better way of putting it is that we just "enhanced" their clarity.

    One major advantage with 24-track elements, of course, is that if a snare drum player bumps a stick against the stand, you can work on reducing the noise just on that track alone without adversely affecting the overall sound. In this regard, it is possible to remove unwanted room noises and even patch and replace wrong notes for single instruments... but it still requires judicious thinking or we'd just be trying to re-do the performance. Perish the thought.

    Of course, going back to the original multi-tracks also means you're using the actual first generation tape stock that was used to record the sessions. It doesn't get any better than going back to the actual source.

    --Doug

  2. Intrada: CONAN THE BARBARIAN und CONAN THE DESTROYER von Basil Poledouris

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    Ich freue mich schon, wenn es nach CONAN THE BARBARIAN und CONAN THE DESTROYER dann auch UDO THE ENJOYER gibt. :music:

    Definitiv. :applaus:

    Ist vor allem Lustig das jetzt so eine Info kommt, da ich mir, um die Wartezeit zu verkürzen, aus den Milan und Varese Editions gerade meine eigene Remastered Edition zaubere.

    Man könnte es auch in Studio Tech Bla Bla als "Conan the Compressor"-Edition bezeichnen. :)

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  3. Intrada: CONAN THE BARBARIAN und CONAN THE DESTROYER von Basil Poledouris

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    News von Doug Fake:

    Hear ye, one and all. Nothing to lose sleep over. EVERY piece of music in the movie appears on our 3-disc set, all delivered under Poledouris' baton in a reading of raw intensity and primitive fury unmatched in any other performance. We're talking some 110 minutes or so of actual soundtrack music, newly-mixed from the complete 2" 24-track session masters PLUS numerous cues deleted from the re-recording such as: the striking tam-tam, low piano and percussion pieces ("Freedom Council" where Conan is turned loose from captivity, "Warpaint" where he prepares for battle), the drinking music before he's summoned to Osric ("Indulgence/Mettle") and the fire music prior to meeting the "Wolf Witch". You'll also find both Basil's original unused music for the snake fight, based on his gladiator "Pit Fights" music and Milius' preferred film version of "Las Cantigas De Santa Maria" that was used instead.

    If that's not enough you'll find an early unused "Prologue", three different percussion loops written as alternates for the council meeting, a rejected and strikingly different "Anvil Of Crom" with trumpets doubling the horns in extremely high registers, an alternate "Battle Of The Mounds", unused versions of the entire "Children Of Doom" sequence written for mezzo-soprano with chamber orchestra as well as for female choir with harp (including a gorgeous, never-before-heard bridge passage for woodwinds), a complete re-construction from Universal's paperwork of the film-edited version of the kitchen battle ("The Defilers") and the similarly edited "End Title" music, the complete original Poledouris album assembly for MCA Records...

    AND...

    An "extra" of the complete "Prologue/Anvil Of Crom" sequence featuring our beloved Mako speaking that immortal opening, "When the oceans drank Atlantis... ." We wouldn't dream of leaving that off. You dear listeners get to have your cake and eat it, too.

    (Oh, and yes, you get Arnold on the cover.)

    --Doug

    P.S. And patience, please, as we dot the 'i's" and cross the "t's" in our packaging. We're as anxious as you to play this beauty. (Ok, yes, we can play it now... but we want you to be able to play it, too.)

    Ist ja fast an zu nehmen, wenn man sich schon von offizieller Seite wieder zum Thema meldet, dass man uns mit jenem Werke doch ziemlich bald beehren wird ! ;)

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  14. Intrada: CONAN THE BARBARIAN und CONAN THE DESTROYER von Basil Poledouris

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    Nun, zumindest hat sich bei FOX schon mal was in Bezug auf einer Neuauflage der Blu Ray von "Barbarian" getan.

    hier eine Mail an einen User aus dem FSM Forum.

    "In regards to your query relating to the Blu-ray release of Conan the Barbarian, I would like to apologise for the delay in getting back to you but we now have further information that we are able to communicate.

    A new Blu-ray master of this title is due, to which a new audio stream is being added. We aim to have finished stock available before Christmas but currently we do not have an exact date.

    This is all of the information we have at present but I hope that it has been of use."

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