New Short - Highway Mania!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Piobman]

Someone else wrote this email today:

We started offering the source audios as a courtesy to the reauthorers in the group because - let's face it - the ducking on our shorts wasn't exactly the best. Since then, we've gotten a new system for ducking that works much better and the sound quality is pretty great. For that reason we're beginning to phase out the addition of source audio, which takes up additional space and time from our editing team.

I'd like to ask if you'd looked at the latest shorts, and if they're fine the way they are. If not, we can add the shorts audio for you, but we're trying to make it so that having additional source files is unnecessary in the future.

Ok, I just watched the last three shorts (Back to School, Highway Mania, and Bills of Rights) and I have to say that I'm still not happy with the audio mixing. I was really hoping that enough improvement had been made to save me some time doing my own editing, but I frankly don't notice much of a difference. The ducking is still WAY too significant and the riff audio is a bit low compared to the source audio (esp. for Back to School). Some ducking is great (MST3K did really well), but you guys practically silence the original.

Please continue to provide the source audio (unless I'm the only one complaining; in which case, to hell with me!).

After posting in another thread... I found this discussion. I am certainly in that group of people who re-author. It would sadden me greatly to not be able to get at least an isolated mp3 of the riff. Unfortunately, I think we're in the minority with this guys.