Slightly, not deeply, but even slightly is a bothersome problem. I discovered very quickly that my memory is flawed. An encyclopedic knowledge of the music really is required, since it's sometimes necessary to pluck the same music track from three or four episodes and combine pieces together to finally arrive at a copy of the music without sound effects ruining it. This means the dialogue can be isolated and removed, but oftentimes the music is marred by the sounds of laser blasts or footfalls. The way the soundtracks were recorded, the dialogue was on one track and the music and sound effects were often combined together on a separate track. I offered my services and was prepared to help identify which themes appeared in which episodes. I jumped into this project wholeheartedly. It never materialized, of course, but my love for the music remained. I am not a musician and I know nothing about such things, but such is my love for the background music in Transformers that I was prepared to trudge through it somehow. Many, many years ago, I even tried to teach myself how to use a MIDI composition program because I was going to write MIDI versions of every theme. I hum the tunes constantly (and now, thanks to this music restoration project, I also dream about them) and I've wanted to see an official soundtrack release for years. So, let me say that I have always loved the music from G1. Jim raised enough money to buy some decent sound editing software to try to clean it up and create a truly soundtrack-quality version: Another fan named Grimbot had previously done a great job of piecing together music from the G1 DVD's, but that was only the first step. So, not too long ago, I believe it was Shin Hibiki who made me aware of Jim Figurski's amazingly awesome Kickstarter project.
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