The mono track on the Warner blu-ray uses the same mastering as the mono track on the earliest New Line DVDs, which is good; they sound fine to me. The Image LaserDisc is much dupier, and its poorer fidelity has less to do with the track being analogue than underlying source issues.
The 5.1 remix has many many new sound effects and sounds worse than the theatrical mix in terms of fidelity - it's harshly EQed and everything is mixed at nearly the same level.
only issue with the mono track on the blu-ray is that it's too quiet, I have to turn it much louder than the remix
ReplyDeletealso I noticed one specific difference in Glen's death, alternate music is used and the original audio for his mom's screams during that scene was accidentally "restored" (her first few screams were dubbed in the original mix for some reason), that's the only instance where I think the remix works better because her screams are much more in sync with the visuals and it didn't sound looped like the original did
but other than that the original mix is vastly superior in every way
oh and I almost forgot to mention it's missing some sound effects, like whenever Tina tears of Freddy's face in the opening, the tearing sound is gone in the remix
Deletethe mono track on the 2006 DVD where the remix originated was just a downmix of the remix so it's good Warner listened to complaints about that and restored the true theatrical mix on the blu-ray