A while back we had a discussion about creating dolby-prologic surround audio effects/music, and I showed how to create and implement this.
Well, I've now gone one stage further, by creating a recording of a C64 Sid tune in Dolby Digital EX (6.1 channels!)
Its rather crude, but now I know how to do it the possibilities are splendiferous
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The SID tune in question is Galway's Miami Vice title and I have created it thusly:
Channel 1 of Sid > Front Left
Channel 2 of Sid > Front Centre
Channel 3 of Sid > Front Right
I then created a delayed echo+reverb+slow flange recording of the same three channels and mapped these to Rear Left, Rear back/centre, Rear- right.
I dont actually use the .1 LFE channel, but could have
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The effect is quite complex but sounds nice, tho you do need to make sure you've got your sound gear levels rigged correctly. In a "real" recording I would not have created such a hard-pan accross the front channels, but I did it this way to make sure that I was getting the discreet channel seperation.
Best of all tho, I can also create DTS-ES recordings also
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I will upload the .AC3 (Dolby) recording to my webspace later on, but will try to shrink its size somewhat as it is curently 8.11mb due to the 448kbit bitrate. A DTS-ES recording would be at least 768kbps!
For those of you interested in downloading and playing the file you will either need a software AC3 player (powerDVD4 or InterVideo WinDVD4) or a standalone DVDplayer that can play AC3 files through your hifi gear.