Surround?

[punkin]

Not that I'm serious about this or anything but, I was curious how is Surround Sound mixed?

What sort of software and/or hardware is required to make a true 4.1 or 5.1 mix?

 

[TexRoadkill]

Do a search first please. I'm usually the one who answers this and I've done it many times. Many DAW programs let you mix in 5.1 but monitoring and mastering are where it gets really expensive.

Here's a cool site www.surroundpro.com

 

[TexRoadkill]

https://homerecording.com/bbs/searc...d=551760&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

 

[Chris Shaeffer]

I'm not sure what all programs do surround natively, but I've been playing around with the surround functions in Cubase.

Probably the most diffucilt thing to scrounge up for surround experiments is monitoring stuff. How do you balnce multiple speakers...'scuse me, monitors...without a 6 channel amp? Muliple amps or all powered speakers or...

I pretty much had to cobble together what I could. At the moment I just have a quadraphonic setup with my normal monitors augmented a normal stereo- fed by a stereo bus from an analog mixer. Its WELL worth the effort of hooking up just to get the idea of what to do with a surround system. Its a lot of fun, but now I'm seriously concidering saving up for a real surround monitoring system.

The process of going from your DAW to a 5.1 encoded file that can be put on a DVD is beyond me, still, though.

Take care,
Chris

 

[masteringhouse]

The process of going from your DAW to a 5.1 encoded file that can be put on a DVD is beyond me, still, though.

Take care,
Chris

Chris -

The 2 lowest cost solutions I've seen are here:

http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/products/products.html

 

[TexRoadkill]

Chris -

The 2 lowest cost solutions I've seen are here:

http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/products/products.html

The DiscWelder Steel package does 5.1 for only $495. That's a pretty good deal. I wonder how well it works.

I've heard bad things about even the more expensive software encoders. Most of the real DVD authoring packages use a good hardware encoder http://www.panasonic.com/PBDS/subcat/Products/dvd/f_lq-vd2000.html. I've heard a software encoder can literally take a day or two to process the tracks (but that's with video).

It's been almost a year since I was looking into it so maybe the software is working better now.

 

[malcolm123]

My Tascam TMD4000 has 5.1 mixing capabilities, but the DM24 has better I guess since it has built in automation.

It has taking me long enough to learn Stereo mixing, so 5.1 wont be the case for me until more people start listening in this environment.

I could only imagine trying to tune a room for 5.1.


Malcolm