Surround Mixing - Input?

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Mountainmirrors

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What's the deal with 5.1 mixing (Acid, Vegas, Cubnase, CEP 2.1...)?
Can you hear the surround on a home stereo? Or do you only get it in your DVD player?
 
You need (at the very least) a DVD player or Tuner with surround sound outputs... Five speakers and a sub... to listen only. To record it takes more. I think it's a bit over-rated except in the movie theatre or if you have a whole lot of money to throw at it.
 
But if I just wanted to pull a little sound out of the rear speakers (same as left/right) it can play on a 5-speaker home theatre?
 
To have a surround sound recording it must be written to disc with surround encoding and played back on a compatible system. True 5.1 only plays on DVDs.
 
But left and right will play out of rear as well. If in a 5 speaker system, right?
5-speaker sound placement is only dvd. Got it.
 
It depends on your receiver but most will play music out of the back when Surround is bypassed or set to one of the cheezy Hall effects.
 
OK. So if it's not for DVD, don't bother. Go stereo...?
 
I don't quite understand your question now. Are you mixing in 5.1?

What exactly are you doing and what are you trying to accomplish. Please be very specific.
 
I would like to mix in 5.1. But I don't know how practical it is for the average person (fan)...
 
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