Terminator 2 Theme Re-orchestration

Okay. Back in 1991, Brad Fiedel did a masterpiece of work when he brought his original theme song from the original Terminator into modern times with a much more powerful version of the original. I decided that 16 years was long enough and made my own update to the song. Brad, if yer listening, I hope I did you proud. Very interested in what people have to say. Hope this is okay Brad. ;) Anyway. Please give this a listen. also, if you have the opportunity...burn this to a CD...and put it on something with a sub woofer. Whoo hoo... Anyway, check it out...leave feedback. Thanks for listening if ya do.

http://www.soundclick.com/pro/view/03/default.cfm?bandID=537561&content=music

BTW: Best results from downloading mp3 and playing that. Otherwise you get the limitations of streaming audio.

Cheers

-Stephen

Wow, I am glad that you liked it! Thank you for listening and leaving a bit of feedback. It is much appreciated.

Hehehehe...yep....he's a lefty alright!

ORIGINAL: rsp@odyssey.net

Can't listen just yet, but just wanted to say I thought I was the only lefthanded woodchuck here.

Randy

Thank you for the comments. Your remarks are what I would hope for because I strived to get some decent balance. I am still updating the song a bit now. Making sure.

Yes, I wish I could get everyone to slap this on a system with some good bottom end. The thing will rock the walls. The rumbling of the Wagner Bass Drum...and the explosions will throw some voice coils.

Turned out real sweet, eh? Let me know when the final tweeking is done and I'll be back... :)

Amazing wall of sound. I forgot how cool that theme was. Sounds like you nailed it. Love the cymbal washes. Very dynamic.

Elevenking,

love your avatar.....
hey ...great job on the tune...

seems you nailed that Ballsy Sound that Hollywood film scores have...

OT:my fave is H...Zimmer ....I love how they can strike terror in film music
I listen to film music often and wonder why my music sounds wimpy...in comparison..

Kenny

That was great. Production is excellant. I just saw T2 today on the upper, upper cable channels. How cool is that...

Massive!

Very well done.

Hi Stephen, one of very favourite movie themes...never fails to make the hairs stand up!

You've done a terrific job on this, huge sound with some beautiful details.

Excellent piece of work, I hope he gives you some feedback.

Love this theme and you've definitely done it justice. Excellent work.

Ok...last call...if anyone wants to bring on suggestions and such. Just looking for feedback. THanks again.

Hi Stephen - I didn't get a chance to listen to this until now. This is really done well. I love the theme anyway - it's a really powerful piece and you've really brought it to a new level with your version! It's outstanding!

I'm listening on crappy $2 headphones at work thru an onboard sound chip, so my listening environment is crap. I wanted you to take that into consideration with my comments.

I'm hearing very little low end on this - again, consider the listening environment, so what I'm saying here is that it doesn't translate well to all platforms. And that's probably OK with you since you're not pitching for an environment like this...just wanted to mention that.

in the beginning of the piece, the strings sound just a little thin to me - I would like to have heard a little more broadening of the ensemble there. I'm not sure if that's because of the soundcard or because of the way you mixed it.

some of the drum sounds are a little on the top side of the eq as well and might could use a little cut in the high range.

I love the swells you've placed in the piece. cymbals really stand out, but not more than they should - excellent job there. love the build at the end with the synth. excellent work!

again - my critique is based on what I'm hearing thru my crappy sound, so take it or leave it. I'll listen to this again at home and see how different it is!

Hi Stephen.

first of all, let me say that I love this piece anyway - always have since the movie came out.

I listened to this on my DAW first. I streamed it from soundclick. I only have cheap reference monitors. M-audio DX4's. But they will pump out a little bass when I ask them to. Maybe not enough - but they will give me some.

I'm still not hearing very much low end on this tune. It still sounds pretty thin and high ended on the drums. the strings sound much better here - not nearly as thin. but the bass is not doing for me what I would think this tune should. I would think I'd hear my chest thumping with bass when I crank this, but it's not anywhere near that. very thin and high ended sounding.

so....I downloaded the mp3 and burned it to a CD and put it on my home stereo. It's not a high end home theater, but it's decent and I have a powered sub. should do the trick, right? well....I turned off the surround and played it in stereo only, flatlined the EQ and the bass simply was not there. it actually sounded WORSE...very high and brittle sounding. then I realized that when I turned off the surround sound, I also turned off the sub. so I turned the subwoofer back on and THEN I could hear the low end! NOW my ceiling fan was rattling! THAT'S what I wanted to hear! BOOM, BOOM, baby!!!

my stereo speakers have a decent range, so I'm thinking that it's possible that without a subwoofer you're not going to hear too much of the low end on this song and that's ashame because it really rocks when that bass comes thru! You might want to look at translation of the low end on systems that don't have a subwoofer. but....that's just my 2cents!

Okay...so on the way home I spun it in my car. I could hear the bass in the car. then when I got home, I slapped it on the home stereo system. My home system consists of two Polk towers with a 6.5 and a tweet, and an Energy 12 inch sun that sits in the closet. I have to say I was impressed. It is possible that it might be a little lacking in the mid-bass range...but man....everything that could rattle was shaking in the house. It was amazing....I was glowing with smiles as the sub woofer was just tearing down the walls. It was exactly as I hoped in that respect. I have to say, that if I was in a theatre, and I heard this at the opening of the Terminator movie, I would have been quite happy.

As an experiment, here is what I am going to try to do, I am going to put a little bump in the eq at around 80Hz, where most systems without a good sub seem to cut off a little bit. Then I will try the little experiment again, I will let you know what happens. Thanks again for burning the song and trying it on different sources. That is truly going beyond the call of duty.