How exactly were they able to replace the music but retain the sound effects? Isn't it just one voiceless track?ĭepends. Valerius Dover wrote:On a related note, something I've been wondering about the Music & Sound Effects track. We can only deduce based on what happened, and this was my best attempt at it. However, people who are nostalgic for DBZ's old dub continue to be the main customers for DBZ home video releases, so perhaps they felt uneasy about messing with it for that very reason.Īll that to say, there are no official explanations. Flash-forward a few years later, though, and they dubbed the songs, suggesting that they no longer look at things the same way, perhaps thinking of GT as a "niche" series. When DBZ still got higher ratings, they must have assumed that a changed musical score was part of DBZ's success formula over here. However, it appears that with Dragon Ball, they were experimenting with the idea of a slightly more faithful dub. So, the logical follow-up question: why did they bother dubbing Dragon Ball and GT songs? In addition to being a very low-budget company at the time, they clearly made a decision way, way back that they were going to "re-version" the show, so getting an instrumental version was probably just not a high priority for them.
So, maybe Toei gave FUNimation crappy ME tapes, but it's also possible that FUNimation didn't request ME tapes with an instrumental version of Chala Head Chala. However, that leads me to the next possibility.Ī 4Kids exec revealed that, when you're purchasing the dubbing and distribution rights to an anime, you can get those rights at a discount if you don't ask for the original music. So, if that's what FUNimation got for DBZ, they would have had to re-create the instrumental track for Chala Head Chala from the ground up as well. It's quite possible that this is because the ME tapes they received didn't have instrumental versions of the songs, so they just had to re-create them from the ground up. FUNimation made synthesized covers for those. Neither their Dragon Ball nor their GT song dubs use the original instrumental tracks. So, it's entirely possible that FUNimation received ME tapes that either didn't have Chala Head Chala on it, or did, but with Hironobu Kageyama's voice still there, making a dub of the song impossible. There are a lot of DBZ dubs out there where insert songs from the original Japanese version are not heard at all, not even the instrumentals. Many times, the ME tapes either didn't have instrumental versions of the songs on them, or sometimes, they didn't even have the songs at all. In order to dub a song, an instrumental version of the song is required. Sometimes it was because the audio quality was bad, or sometimes it was because they simply didn't have everything that was in the original audio. Toei, unfortunately, was notorious back in the day for sending dubbing companies really crappy ME tapes (and video too, for that matter, but I digress). Using the original audio as a reference, the engineer and director will then have the dub actor record their lines, and those re-recorded lines are then mixed in with the ME tape audio, creating the final dub audio mix. Finally, the biggest reason is to help guide the dub actors and dub singers when they get in the booth with how they should deliver their lines (or lyrics). Secondly, if there is something that is too difficult for a dubbing actor to dub, like screams, the dubbing company may want the option of just using the original Japanese actor's performance in specific scenes (the French dub of DBZ did this a lot). Firstly, to put on home video releases for customers who want to listen to it. The original audio is given to the dubbing company for three reasons. There are two possible ones that I can think of.Īudio mixes-whether we're talking about dialogue, music, and sound effects, or songs-are not something in which the voices can simply be "taken out of." The way dubs-of either songs or dialogue-work is that the dubbing company will receive two sets of audio materials: the original audio mix, and the audio before the original voice tracks were mixed in, called the ME tapes, meaning "Music and Effects".as the name implies, the only audio you'll hear on ME tapes are music and sound effects, no voices. We've never gotten an official explanation. Also why is Cha la the main theme for DB now ? Makafushigi adventure is much better and the original!
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