Abracadabra - The Surround Sound Collection (2 DVD)

[Peter77]

This collection is in NTSC format but it shouldn't make much difference for most people.

[alphabeatles]

And yes Peter, thanks for stepping up and doing these in the first place!

[Peter77]

Credit firstly to Lord Reith for his fantastic work.
And thanks to you alphabeatles for converting these mixes for a new audience.

[alphabeatles]

It's like a sandwich, with you in the middle!

[MrMurphMcgee]

I have a pair of AirPod Max headphones arriving this week. It will be interesting to see how they handle this once I get hints in a format they can use.

[alphabeatles]

(Vol. 8 & 9 added)

Vol. 1: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1E0e55vQSDY6SCUUhaQremTbEjeT1rzh_/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 2: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwJMSZ8hMdPyfjHST1Tbno1BoFsnNMHJ/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 3: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1qcckQ57w5WwuH4oFT4mZE_EttsBN5C0v/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 4: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1jMiz93GJCTJoHxvQZfFp-W524CXJ3pdg/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 5: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kj8GpMqaMjEwck_YUC7_zPwhHcORirlB/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 6: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/16gOOckOwlU1WyMqq9X3H78c7iCFumc1b/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 7: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1HkTh9jtFqIdhpWXnPnqdhrcQ2d_LPBjw/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 8: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1l_2O_dtyeOXGyRbnn7VBxXmpteXvNlAc/view?usp=sharing

Vol. 9: hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1iPqDwpee5MCpUhh7pXhriPZ-p-hSWSqz/view?usp=sharing
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Fun facts:

I used DVD Audio Extractor (trial, Mac) to get the audio off the DVDs as 6-channel multitrack FLACs (there was no 4 channel setting)

I used Sound Studio (Mac) to isolate, name and save each individual song from the hour+ continuous extracted tracks

I used Sound Studio (Mac) to surgically lop off empty tops and clean-fade sometimes gritty tails, as well as to remove unwanted stray metallic carnival organ whistling (extraction artifacts) from individual channels as needed. I found at least one case of DC offset in a fade and fixed that, and a couple examples of a vinyl-like pop in fades which I removed

The 6-channel extracted FLACs were then brought into Audacity, the empty tracks 3-4 removed and the file specially exported as FLAC (Advanced Mixing Options, Output channels: 4).

Zipped and uploaded!

No EQ or normalization was performed.

[MrMurphMcgee]

Thank you!

[alphabeatles]

All 9 volumes of this project are now up!

[alphabeatles]

While cleaning up these files I found some weird stuff in Strawberry Fields Forever.

The extraction of what is supposed to be the vocal track picked up some of George Martin's orchestration. We have the instruments saying "Help me" and in another place they sound like Yoko!

I repeated each comparison 3 times:

hxxps://drive.google.com/file/d/1c6PuUSHfx9BJTaUvo5UMVx-5D2bK36of/view?usp=sharing

[jpa]

Thanks so much!