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On 17 apr 2007, at 02.32, David Kirkdorffer wrote: > Has anyone here released their music mastered for DTS No. > or 5.1 ? Yes. > advice: do's and don't.... what to look out for...special > considerations.. etc. If your material is only music you don't need to use the center speaker. That makes it a lot easier to create interesting "rooms" within the four ambience speakers by working with dual stereo signals/ treatments. It's natural to think that the best tool is a "software mixer" that has a surround panning tool on each track. I too started out with that but after some time I found that I could do it much better by simply address the surround speakers directly and built whatever needed to circle, time delay, "dopplerize" - or whatever needed - the sound. I was working in Logic, but any mixer or software would do if it just has five (or six) addressable outputs for the speakers. Get four equal speakers for the mixing and burn DVD-V discs to control listen on a medium crappy home theatre movie box with Dolby. I even made the AC3 files myself and delivered them to the video guy who when mastering the movie imports the AC3 file as part of the Dolby Surround Sound (or whatever it's called). When making an AC3 (for DVD-V, DVD-A is a different story) you are given the choice of how much to compress. I chose 256 kbps and am totally happy with that audio fidelity. Do not forget to listen to all surround channels mashed into a mono bus. You have to watch out with mono compatibility, not only for phasing issues but also for musical reasons. You see, everything sounds so much better and more distinct in surround so you will become tempted to mix with less definition (as in more natural sounding), which will eventually may sound mashed up in mono when you do not have the direction of sound. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (CC donationware music releases)