I understood that sacd was out of the question for a private
recordist. I thought we were restricted to dolby tech. for the
little guy?
Rich Peet
--- In "Greg Weddig" <>
wrote:
> I have a short response to that, DVD-Audio format or SACD.
> Multichannel formats that can reproduce high resolution multichannel
> sound, with or without lossless compression.
> The encoding software is rather expensive and the hardware is
slightly
> esoteric at the moment but with more DVD players supporting
> multiformat discs, I think this will change and prices will drop.
>
> --greg
>
>
> --- In "Rich Peet" <>
> wrote:
> > Well, ya, the big guy is severly low-passed in mp3. But this
bird is
> > like that. Check out the side by side of the wave vs the mp3
that I
> > mixed within one wave file.
> >
> > 350 kb download at:
> > http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/GHO.wav
> >
> > My feelings on Surround should have been based as a question.
> > This stuff is so mixed with sales hype that to figure out how to
work
> > with it is really hard.
> >
> > I got into trouble reading at:
> >
http://www.dolby.com/professional/Support/tech.overview.html#DolbyDigi
> > tal
> >
> > It appears that you can not have 4 channels of 10khz range birds
> > singing at the same time and cover them with full bit depth. That
was
> > the sparrow comment. The thunder comment is probably workable
with
> > hours of post. When a signal uses both the areas above and below
the
> > lfe channel the sums and sides appear to be very hard to work
with.=20
> > Maybe it can be done with a lot of work. It appears that the
rear
> > surround channels were put there for sound reinforcement and not
to
> > be used as full distinct channels.
> >
> > I will continue to educate myself and work in full 4 channel but
> > geeze Dan do you have a magic decoder ring that can tell us if
this
> > tech will work for us if we want full four channel with high bit
> > depth?
> >
> > Rich Peet
> >
> > --- In Dan Dugan <>
wrote:
> > > Rich Peet, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >Now with GHOW's you can get by with a tiny mp3 file because of
> > those
> > > >nice low notes.
> > > >
> > > ><20 kb download
> > > >http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/GHO1.mp3
> > >
> > > Yeah, but it sounds low-passed...
> > >
> > > >But if my reading is right you can not even put a sparrow or
> > thunder
> > > >on the surround channels of dolby 5.1. Looks like home
theator
> > will
> > > >not be our future format.
> > >
> > > Please explain.
> > >
> > > -Dan Dugan
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