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Originally Posted by eddie_bowers
I have noticed many times that when older recordings are used in movies (anything from the 50s to 70s)that they always sound fresh and exciting, but somehow exactly the same. These are usually songs im very familiar with so I think I would notice changes in the mix or recording.
Are these just compressed to enhance every detail or is it all in my mind?
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Are you comparing what you hear in the movie theater to what you hear at home?
Because most modern cineplexes have million-dollar sound-systems and acoustical construction, and are the closest most mortal people will ever get to hearing things as they were intended. It is basically impossible, at any budget, to get same listening experience in a bedroom as you get in an IMAX or TXH type theater.
OTOH, if you pop in a Blu-Ray or DVD, and think it sounds significantly different from your album version on CD, it probably has been processed to fit in with the movie's soundscape, although rarely in ways that most listeners would think of as categorical "improvements". If you want to hear what's really going on, try A/B'ing the soundtrack version versus the album version, and using the volume knob to get the same apparent loudness on the same system.
Everything in a movie soundtrack typically goes through at least one mix engineer who has control of the various stems such as dialogue, sound effects, score, music cues, etc. That person or others might certainly apply additional processing to make a licensed song sound different, including a sort of "re-mastering" with things like modern look-ahead limiters, etc. If you have a copy of the DVD or Blu-Ray, it should be pretty easy to compare with the record.