Wiardgroup

I ran this by Grant the other day - I want to send him some of the
panning stuff that I have been doing with the JAG, but how do I send
it to him?  If he had a DTS decoder (mine is a $200 JVC DVD player
that has 6 channel output), I could send him a DTS encoded CD, and he
could actually play my 5 channel mixes!

In the 70's, when I was at Calarts, because of the Buchla, and the
four speakers monitors in the room, everybody's music there was 4
channel discrete.  Quad panning.  Doppler.  3d ambience. Of course,
this format was pretty unpopular, and the average person elsewhere 
could not play this stuff.

Today, however, is quite a bit different.  For as little as $600.00,
many manufacturers are selling complete Dolby digital and DTS systems
for home theaters.  These systems will take encoded discs and play
them back as discrete 5 channel + subwoofer sound.

I have been composing and producing 5.1 format music for about 15
years now, and I can simply say that it is better than stereo - it's
more detailed when it is quiet, and it's a lot louder when it's loud.

There are several plugin applications that will DTS encode your 5.1
mixes, allowing you to burn CDs that can be played on existing DTS
playback systems.  The expensive way is with Protools, but Sonic
Foundry  also has a great one for Dolby Digital.


Something to think about....  30 years later, we can actually make
multichannel music recordings, and send them to friends, who can play
them back?!

Shouldn't we all be doing this?

Gary Chang