Jerry Goldsmith - First Blood (Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Remastered) (1982/2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 469 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 236 MB
1:31:52 | Score, Soundtrack | Label: Intrada
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 469 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 236 MB
1:31:52 | Score, Soundtrack | Label: Intrada
In honor of its 40th Anniversary, Intrada presents an all-new edition of one of founder Doug Fake's personal favorite soundtracks. The score is not only an important part of Jerry Goldsmith's large body of work, but also Intrada's formative years. First Blood initially appeared as the inaugural release of the Film Music Treasury series, an early version of the Special Collection. In assembling that release, Goldsmith and engineer Len Engel re-sequenced the original Regency album and located one extra track not previously released, using the ¼″ two-track mixes made in 1982 for the LP. However, the ¼″ masters were plagued with an interesting anomaly: though identified with the widely-used professional Dolby A encoding process, they did not possess unique tones identifying the Dolby encoding that allows for calibration of playback machines. In lieu of those critical tones, the original engineers addressed by reducing the inherent background hiss using equalization techniques, and attempts to rectify these anomalies were less than satisfactory.