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 Posted:   Mar 11, 2017 - 12:23 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

A couple weeks ago I received A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, and just now BABY BOOM on Blu-ray and the Isolated Music & Effects Tracks sound fantastic! I never thought I'd have BABY BOOM like this. I just want to say thank you Mike for these two Blu-rays, and all the other Blu-rays you've worked on, I truly appreciate them!smile

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 12, 2017 - 6:09 AM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

I think Mike and James Nelson are the best guys doing this stuff to our soundtrack releases and long may they continue.

edit...Shout outs to Chris Malone and Dan Hersch too.

 
 Posted:   Mar 12, 2017 - 1:29 PM   
 By:   Mike Matessino   (Member)

Thanks! This is very much appreciated. As I've often said, getting to share the music with people who are passionate about it (and spend their hard earned money on it) and hearing from them is what makes it all worthwhile.

Mike M.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2017 - 6:31 PM   
 By:   Reel7   (Member)

I agree that Mike has done wonders with recorded sound. My love is the so-called Golden Age, particularly from the Fox studios.
His monumental list of credits includes many of Fox’s finest by the likes of Newman, Friedhofer, Herrmann, Harline, Waxman etc. if they sounded marvellous initially, to hear them now is incredible.
Music magician.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2017 - 7:01 PM   
 By:   Col. Flagg   (Member)

Music magician.

This board REALLY needs a "like" button.

 
 Posted:   Mar 13, 2017 - 7:47 PM   
 By:   Valiant65   (Member)

A couple weeks ago I received A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, and just now BABY BOOM on Blu-ray and the Isolated Music & Effects Tracks sound fantastic! I never thought I'd have BABY BOOM like this. I just want to say thank you Mike for these two Blu-rays, and all the other Blu-rays you've worked on, I truly appreciate them!smile

Just curious, Henry, did you watch these movies first and then rewatch with the isolated score?
Or did you go right to the isolated score? And does that ruin your future viewing of the film for story?

I have the same dilemma.

As much as I can't wait to get to the isolated music, or commentary, I force myself to get through the film itself first.

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 7:53 AM   
 By:   Jason LeBlanc   (Member)

Mike Matessino is the true definition of a hero of the industry.

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 7:59 AM   
 By:   emusician   (Member)

Mike Matessino is the true definition of a hero of the industry.

here here!

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 8:03 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

Mike, if you have time I'd love to hear more details about the Star Trek Animated Series work you did. From my understanding it was all taken from stems - I'd imagine that Neil S. Bulk isolated each version of each track and then selected the best elements to come out with the end result?

If you're able to share some more insight into this it would be appreciated, and I am also curious how daunting it was - and if you'd ever consider this method for any future animated score releases if it is the only option available.

[To be perfectly honest, I'm interested in The Real Ghostbusters animated scores, and from my understandings the only source available 'may' be music and effects tracks.]



I am still truly blown away at the end result. Thank you.


I have copied Lukas Kendall's comments form the 50th set below:

The Animated Series was very difficult to release. The only surviving masters were the mono music stems from the dialogue/FX/music tracks. We transferred all available episode DMEs and Neil Bulk meticulously collated all of the cues to get each one complete and in best-possible sound. Then Mike Matessino did the audio restoration. I think fans will be very happy with the sound and presentation. Incidentally I tried to do what Neil did and got around 2% of the job done before I threw up my hands, screaming mad. I don't know how he did it.

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 9:42 AM   
 By:   Mike Matessino   (Member)

Best to point you to the podcast Neil Bulk and I did where we chat in detail about doing the Animated Series music. Like Lukas, I don't know how this got done. It was like being in the zone of darkness in the episode "The Immunity Syndrome." You just had to throw out the rule book and go with what seemed to work.

http://trek.fm/saturday-morning-trek/22

Mike M.

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 11:00 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

Best to point you to the podcast Neil Bulk and I did where we chat in detail about doing the Animated Series music. Like Lukas, I don't know how this got done. It was like being in the zone of darkness in the episode "The Immunity Syndrome." You just had to throw out the rule book and go with what seemed to work.

http://trek.fm/saturday-morning-trek/22

Mike M.


Just listened to it - answered all of my questions, and then some - thanks very much. Understand now that the source was stems vs. a Music and Effects track, which is much better as the music itself could be isolated, and then best cues selected. big grin

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 11:10 AM   
 By:   Scott McC   (Member)

"A New Hope" for me would be that Mike be allowed to turn his considerable talents to a 21st century remastering of the original Star Wars Trilogy. His work on the RCA Victor versions of some 20 years ago was to my ear quite remarkable in its attention to detail.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 3:27 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

A couple weeks ago I received A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, and just now BABY BOOM on Blu-ray and the Isolated Music & Effects Tracks sound fantastic! I never thought I'd have BABY BOOM like this. I just want to say thank you Mike for these two Blu-rays, and all the other Blu-rays you've worked on, I truly appreciate them!smile

Just curious, Henry, did you watch these movies first and then rewatch with the isolated score?
Or did you go right to the isolated score? And does that ruin your future viewing of the film for story?

I have the same dilemma.

As much as I can't wait to get to the isolated music, or commentary, I force myself to get through the film itself first.


Hi! Since I've seen BABY BOOM before the first thing I did was go right to the isolated score and loved it! I've also already listened to the commentary which was very interesting, they said nice things about Conti which was cool. I also went right to the score on A PRAYER FOR THE DYING. I still haven't seen that one however, but I plan to.smile

 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 3:33 PM   
 By:   drivingmissdaisy   (Member)

A couple weeks ago I received A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, and just now BABY BOOM on Blu-ray and the Isolated Music & Effects Tracks sound fantastic! I never thought I'd have BABY BOOM like this. I just want to say thank you Mike for these two Blu-rays, and all the other Blu-rays you've worked on, I truly appreciate them!smile

Just curious, Henry, did you watch these movies first and then rewatch with the isolated score?
Or did you go right to the isolated score? And does that ruin your future viewing of the film for story?

I have the same dilemma.

As much as I can't wait to get to the isolated music, or commentary, I force myself to get through the film itself first.


Hi! Since I've seen BABY BOOM before the first thing I did was go right to the isolated score and loved it! I've also already listened to the commentary which was very interesting, they said nice things about Conti which was cool. I also went right to the score on A PRAYER FOR THE DYING. I still haven't seen that one however, but I plan to.smile


Can't wait to get this too, listening to the isolated score and effects are you still able to hear the music quite well, very little intrusion of the effects?

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 3:53 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

A couple weeks ago I received A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, and just now BABY BOOM on Blu-ray and the Isolated Music & Effects Tracks sound fantastic! I never thought I'd have BABY BOOM like this. I just want to say thank you Mike for these two Blu-rays, and all the other Blu-rays you've worked on, I truly appreciate them!smile

Just curious, Henry, did you watch these movies first and then rewatch with the isolated score?
Or did you go right to the isolated score? And does that ruin your future viewing of the film for story?

I have the same dilemma.

As much as I can't wait to get to the isolated music, or commentary, I force myself to get through the film itself first.


Hi! Since I've seen BABY BOOM before the first thing I did was go right to the isolated score and loved it! I've also already listened to the commentary which was very interesting, they said nice things about Conti which was cool. I also went right to the score on A PRAYER FOR THE DYING. I still haven't seen that one however, but I plan to.smile


Can't wait to get this too, listening to the isolated score and effects are you still able to hear the music quite well, very little intrusion of the effects?


Hi buddy! You can hear the music very well! The opening music comes through very well without the narration. There are a few cues where you hear the baby crying but it's only a few scenes and it's not too distracting. And the sound quality of the music is fantastic. I have been listening to it constantly. The commentary is very entertaining too. Please give me your review once you've seen it.smile

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 14, 2017 - 4:03 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

Also thumbs up for TWILIGHT TIME, I'm very impressed! They emailed when it shipped, was out for delivery and delivered. And they were extremely fast, I got it on Saturday before the release date.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 28, 2017 - 6:01 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

I just received THE JOHN WILLIAMS JURASSIC PARK COLLECTION the other day, and I can't stop listening to that now. Mike, you're a hero of mine! Thanks again for all your hard work!smile

 
 Posted:   Mar 28, 2017 - 7:18 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

Agreed. The JP collection is start-to-finish perfect. All of his Spielberg/Williams productions have been so awesome.

 
 
 Posted:   May 13, 2023 - 1:29 PM   
 By:   JThree   (Member)


Has anybody heard what Mike Matessino is working on lately? What new projects? What might come out later this year? It's always interesting hearing about his restoration projects.

--jthree

 
 Posted:   May 13, 2023 - 8:41 PM   
 By:   Amer Zahid   (Member)

Has anybody heard what Mike Matessino is working on lately? What new projects? What might come out later this year? It's always interesting hearing about his restoration projects.

--jthree


We only hear about projects after they are announced and officially released by the labels.

 
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