Danny Elfman has said he was “terribly unhappy” with the dub of his score on Tim Burton’s 1989 movie Batman.Addressing rumours regarding his displeasure with the score on the Premier Guitar podcast, Elfman explained the recording “didn’t have any care put into it.”“I was terribly unhappy with the dub in Batman,” Elfman explained. “They did it in the old-school way where you do the score and turn it into the ‘professionals’ who turn the nobs and dub it in.
And dubbing had gotten really wonky in those years.“We recorded [multi-channel recording on] three channels — right, centre, left, — and basically, they took the centre channel out of the music completely.”He continued: “It didn’t have any care put into it.
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