Originally Posted by Rat Souffle
Danny just waltzes in the front door and takes the tapes out of the Radiophonic workshop's archive room. You must live the high life!
EDIT: You know, as in sitting on your own private island, sipping a martini and ginger and listening to various elements of the Derbyshire and Howell themes in isolation. Oh, and 'thinking it good'.
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Sounds like my life pretty much.
Originally Posted by Rat Souffle
What's so bad about the stereo mix?
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Mark Ayres killed the theme, completely. Without even going into the sound of the theme (which sounds totally flat and lifeless compared to the original mix), he put it together very sloppily. The second layer is incorrectly timed to the first layer throughout most of the mix, and at one point the second layer even drops away completely for no reason (behind the first melody 1 -- I've checked every original version of the Derbyshire theme and it does not drop away there, and yet it does in both MArk's 2002 stereo and 2006 stereo/5.1 versions). Also, in the original 2002 version, he used an incorrect bassline clip to loop back to melody 1 (the dum-dum-diddy started at D and went
up for some bizarre reason, which appeared nowhere in the original themes either). I had to email him and notify him about the error, which he corrected for 2006 luckily, but then proceeded to ruin the wind bubble on the end of the theme instead.
I hate you, Mark Ayres.