-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rip Info -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Title: Vampire - The Masquerade Bloodlines (Complete OST Revised) Composition: Rik Schaffer & Various Artists Platform: PC Ripped: June 26th, 2006 Length: 3 hours, 4 minutes Filesize: 201MB -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Improvements -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I recently recieved an e-mail response from Rik Schaffer, the composer of all the original BGM for the game. He was very generous and sent all of the original source wave files that remained in his possession. It wasn't the entire soundtrack, but it was better then nothing. Roughly 17 perfect quality waves were sent. I processed them the same as I did with the tracks in the prior version of this set. I amplified, removed any silence, applied any fades that were required, and encoded to Alt Present Standard. 3 more unused tracks have been added, 1 new boss track has been added which I THINK was indeed used in the game, and 13 low quality tracks have been replaced with fresh high quality versions. So in theory, this is the best version of this soundtrack we will ever have, considering that Troika went out of business, and this contains all the waves Rik still had. On top of this, my buddy Boxxmann ripped all 9 licensed tracks from the official soundtrack CD which he owns, and sent them to me. The CD only contained those 9 tracks, and none of Rik Schaffer's work. He encoded them to Alt Preset Standard, so they are now flawless quality MP3s. I'd like to say sorry to everyone that has already downloaded the prior version of this album. I didn't know that this was going to happen. I jumped the gun and released it too early. I hope no one feels like they wasted their time getting the "inferior" version. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Notes -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The tracks are roughly ordered chronologically in relation to the game's main story. I took the liberty of slightly shuffling things up if too many soft or hard tracks were bunched together. I tried to make it seem like an album that was always rising or diving in terms of energy. I amplified the levels of as much of the BGM as possible to an appropriate standard so they would blend in better with the loud licensed music. This doesn't mean every track is equally loud. It just means that the softer tracks can be heard, whereas before, they were practically mute in comparison with the licensed songs. I also applied a fade out or removed silence when needed. I was forced to recompress some of the original BGM tracks due to reasons mentioned above. I did not need to do this on any tracks which I was able to secure from the composer himself, or the official soundtrack CD. I re-encoded to Alt Preset Standard, so the quality loss was kept to a bare minimum. I did not include the two short "stem" tracks that were entirely rumbling and can't be considered anything close to music. Some files in the game data folders had more then one song, often times the second song was a duplicate of a song that was already in it's own track, in which case I removed that segment. I included all of the parts of "The Deb of Night", which was a talk show that played on many of the boom boxes you came across in the game. Any radio station ads that played more then once were edited out. Of all 5 radio station tracks, you should not hear anything more then once. Yes, Club Glaze has two tracks. Not sure why, because that club doesn't have much reason to stay around long enough for the second song to start. If a track is played in more then one area in the game, which is very common, I tried to list the most obvious area. For example, the song by "Darling Violetta" is played on the radio at the beach, as well as Empire Hotel. There are quite a few tracks that are played in so many small forgettable areas, that I just chose to keep their original titles taken from the old file names. It would be too much trouble to list all the areas the song is played, and the filename would be gigantic. I am not really sure where the "Short Cutscene" tracks are heard in the game. Also, there are five "Unused" tracks which I am pretty sure were not in the final version of the game. These all came from the game's data folders or the composer himself. All of these are included here because this is a "Complete" rip. I gave it my best guess at where they should be placed amungst the track order. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tracks -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 01 - Main Menu (3:17) 02 - Santa Monica Theme (5:04) 03 - Creepy Ambience 1 (2:13) 04 - The Asylum ~ {Chiasm - Isolated} (5:17) 05 - Disturbed and Twisted (4:30) 06 - Police Alert (3:51) 07 - Disturbed and Twisted Combat (2:14) 08 - Generic Combat (2:14) 09 - Short Cutscene 1 (1:08) 10 - Downtown Theme (4:19) 11 - Creepy Ambience 2 (3:51) 12 - Downtown Hub (Unused Alternate) (5:38) 13 - Club Confession ~ {Ministry - Bloodlines} (7:16) 14 - Dangerous Places (4:18) 15 - Empire Hotel Banquet ~ {Darling Violetta - Smaller God} (4:23) 16 - Dangerous Places Combat (3:02) 17 - The Last Round ~ {Genitorturers - Lecher Bitch} (4:15) 18 - Short Cutscene 2 (0:37) 19 - Hollywood Theme (5:35) 20 - Creepy Ambience 3 (3:37) 21 - Vesuvius (1:52) 22 - Luckee Star (1:12) 23 - The Asp Hole ~ {Tiamat - Cain} (5:25) 24 - Theater Gargoyle (0:20) 25 - Vesuvius (Unused Alternate) (3:50) 26 - Short Cutscene 3 (0:39) 27 - Chinatown Theme (6:06) 28 - Creepy Ambience Combat (2:15) 29 - The Crypt (2:14) 30 - Glaze Club ~ {Aerial - Pound} (5:32) 31 - Crypt Combat (2:19) 32 - Tikal Jungle (Unused) (4:18) 33 - Dark Asia (3:52) 34 - Glaze Club ~ {Daniel Ash - Come Alive} (5:55) 35 - Dark Asia Combat (2:30) 36 - Moldy Old World (2:38) 37 - China Boss Battle (2:02) 38 - The Prince's Dream (Unused) (2:55) 39 - Mission Impossible (4:55) 40 - Radio ~ {Die My Darling - Needle's Eye} (3:55) 41 - Mission Impossible Combat (2:49) 42 - End Credits ~ {Lacuna Coil - Swamped} (4:02) 43 - Come Around (Unused) (3:51) X1 - The Deb of Night (Part 1) (7:06) X2 - The Deb of Night (Part 2) (5:36) X3 - The Deb of Night (Part 3) (7:25) X4 - The Deb of Night (Part 4) (5:56) X5 - The Deb of Night (Part 5) (6:30) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Contact Info -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Site: www.stevemv.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Additional Credits -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- www.wombmusic.net - The composer's homepage. www.planetvampire.com - A great fansite. www.myspace.com/boxxmann - Sent me the licensed album.