Stereo to 5.1?

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First things first, I posted this to both "Computer Recording" and "Mixing/Mastering" because I'm note really sure where it belongs.
Anyway, on a Beatles list I'm on someone said that they were able to extract a 5.1 mix from a stereo recording. He said that used a stereo oops for the rears, and was able to seperate the left, center, and right channels, plus of course the bass. He said this can be done on any song, but despite many pleas is not telling anyone how he did it. Anyone have info on this?
 
This is cutting edge stuff...........And I have no Idea how to do it......You have to really now what you are doing................ie Trent Renzor nine inch nails pulled it off taking his new concert video out of stereo and into 5.1...................I saw an interview with him talking about it on a tech channel we have..............He even said it was a bitch!

Good luck man

-nave
 
BTW

go check out

http://www.techtv.com/audiofile

do a search on that page, for 5.1 or trent reznor.....I'm sure there is some info about it there..........I think you can watch the vid of trent talking about it too via windows media player or something.......
 
nave,

I have read a couple articles about "And All That Could Have Been" and I think I can definitively say that a number of concerts were multitracked and then mixed into the stereo CD and 5.1 Dolby Digital and DTS mixes.

It would be incredibly stupid to record it in stereo and then mix to 5.1 when you have the ability to record everything on separate tracks. ;)
 
Ah dolmite, that does make sense:)...........But I still don't know the answer to ssb's question then.......

yo ssb, I would still look on that sight.........you may find something there that could put you on the right track.....There is alot of handy information there about 5.1

just trying to help out

-nave
 
Wow good article dolemite,,,,,......I'm still reading ............


Thanx

-nave
 
By using some hardcore masking/editing, you could seperate certain frequencies, and thus instruments/voices, of the original stereo mix. The real trick would be getting it to sound good, since you'd lose a lot of sound (harmonics and stuff) in the masking.

By determining what's panned dead center you know what to put in the center channel, then take the original left channel and subtract some of what you put in the center to get the front left, same thing with the original stereo right/5.1 front right, low pass filter into the .1 channel, and mix either the corresponding front channel or some "effect mix" into the surround channels.
 
Dolemite, I figured that's what it would be, but I've heard the left, right, and center and it sounds pretty good, if he used that technique it must've taken awhile. Do you have any more indepth info/links about something like this?
 
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