ALL BY EAR

The amazing thing (for me) about this project is that I'm a self-taught musician and that the entire project had been done from scratch BY EAR, due to the original manuscripts for any of the episodic scores on the show being unavailable.

Many tracks had been scrapped and re-done as many as three or four times to refine them and make their arrangements, sound and feel as close as was humanly possible to the originals -- which were Hi-Fi mono anyway thus Stero makes music sound different. [Hi-Fi Stereo only came to the fore from 1987 onwards with the likes of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'.]

In general, die-hard fans found many of the tracks were a lot easier to listen to and more coherent than the originals though it was a constant question from many fans -- "Was this the ORIGINAL music on your CD?" -- well, yes and no -- it was the original arrangements as closely as possible; same with the sounds, but many of the sounds on the show were just impossible to reproduce exactly -- BUT fans found many of the sounds were VERY close or better than the originals! Even Sylvester Levay, Udi Harpaz, Gene L. Gillette, John Kean or any of the other original sound engineers or session musicians on the show wouldn't be able to reproduce most of the sounds, feel and 'mix' nowadays anyway. I'd spent a long time on these aspects.

POST PRODUCTION

I hit studio in mid-November 1998 and later April 1999 for post production and final pre-mastering -- of what was 22 episodic tracks on my CD, and 3 extended tracks conducted by Sylvester Levay with a FULL ORCHESTRA for his Special Bonus CD (just like the original 1st Season of the show).

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