![]() In any case, it is an improvement over the regular CD release. Pieces like 'Sarah's Dream,' 'Desert Suite,' 'Cameron's Inferno,' and 'T1000 Terminated' range from the spare to the claustrophobic, but all of them capture the post. The disc's packaging states however that there is also an SACD stereo mix which my player seems unable to find (or which does not exist at all?). Brad Fiedel's score for Terminator 2 expands on the largely synth-based sound of the original Terminator music with taut, percussive interludes and evocative, symphonic passages. Interestingly, my player could only detect two programs on the disc: a CD layer, and an SACD multichannel mix. ![]() Not a very daring multichannel mix, but very effective. Description The score by Brad Fiedel was commercially released as the Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) CD and cassette tape. This rear 'reverb' only reinforces Fiedel's original sound design.īass seems more prominent than on the original CD. The rear & front channels produce very similar content almost simultaneously. Where the improvement comes from is the added dimension provided by the multichannel mix. The DSD multichannel transfers do not, to my ears, improve upon the actual sound quality of the music. This SACD reprises the same material which originally appeared on the Varese Sarabande CD release of the soundtrack. A mechanical, icy and almost all-synth score depicts the Terminator universe. His electronic palette has considerably increased in the time span separating the two movies. Nevertheless the additional channels (rear + center) are a great enhancement for widening the sound, which seems to hover in your room.įor T2, Brad Fiedel reprises and expands upon his sound design developed for the first Terminator movie. This should not be a problem, because the rear channels are mostly for ambiance only anyway. When selecting “stereo”, the output is still multichannel. There seems to be no separate SACD stereo mix. Throughout the disc, the theme surfaces once in a while, but there are not enough of these satisfying moments to carry you through the whole soundtrack. The Terminator Theme of course sounds great, and - especially in multichannel – fills your listening room (“Main Title” Track 1 and “It’s Over” Track 20). Very fitting for the movie, but as a stand alone soundtrack, I find it difficult to listen to the unmelodic and action driven cues. Exactly what you expect from the Terminator: synthesized sounds best described as metallic, mechanical, rythmic, hopless and dark.
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