[Request] Rocky Horror faux stereo

[madmax87]

Well, the German LD just arrived and is capturing now, so I'll be sure to check the colours as well as the audio!

EDIT: Christ, this is the loudest LD I've ever seen! Levels are CRANKED.

I told you it's a FAIL. 

BTW. This anoying PAL-pitch problem is the same on hundreds of German Blu-ray releases of old movies because lots of the dubs were recorded on 25fps material. Majpr lables like Warner or Fox just don't give a #$%& about it and produce the same mistakes again and again.

[pipefan413]

BTW. This anoying PAL-pitch problem is the same on hundreds of German Blu-ray releases of old movies because lots of the dubs were recorded on 25fps material. Majpr lables like Warner or Fox just don't give a #$%& about it and produce the same mistakes again and again.

It isn't clipping, as far as I can tell... it's just damn loud!

That's got me thinking it's possibly the version dubbed from the soundtrack album as that probably would've been mastered like that rather than like a film ordinarily would, but I haven't checked it yet.

And yeah I know but the really stupid thing (which is primarily what I'm referring to) is when the original source is 24 fps, but they release a Blu-ray or DVD at NTSC standard that has the right speed but the wrong pitch because it's clearly been converted to PAL at some stage but then incorrectly converted back. Why the hell anybody would specifically choose to *only* speed correct a PAL source is beyond me. I take it they just assume it was sped up without pitch change and don't check? I know it eventually became a bit more common to do PAL speedup without pitch shift so maybe that's it. But most of my DVDs had pitch shift so I dunno why you'd just assume that any PAL master wasn't pitch shifted!

EDIT: OK so just checked by flipping a channel's phase and mixing down to 1ch, and the German LD is indeed the actual mono, not a stereo mix! (EDIT 2: I dunno what happened earlier but Audacity must've crapped its pants without me realising... it rendered a flat line as waveform and played as silence, but I just checked it again and now it's got audio in the file. So... it actually is stereophonic after all, not mono. Meaning the DVDs and BDs remain the only source I know of. Damn.)