14 Jun
2009
14 Jun
'09
7:20 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:50:00PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
real men use ambisonics ;)
for the unwashed masses, they pre-render to 5.1.
Right.
ardour can do the former today, and ambdec will take
care of the latter.
i'd be willing to join the effort - if somebody else produces the
content itself, i can help with mastering to surround. it would be 5.0,
though. imnsho, the .1 is one of the stupidest ideas ever...
The .1 or LFE channel is for Low Frequency Effects such as
bombs going off at a distance that implies you won't hear
them (or anything else afterwards). It is supposed to have
10 dB more gain than the other channels at the reproduction
side.
It's *not* supposed to contain the LF part of the 5.0 signals.
If the 5.0 speakers are too small to reproduce any LF and need
the subwoofer to do that then this is taken care of at the
receiver end.
So indeed you don't need the .1 except for a type of effect
that is unlikely to be required in this case.
--
FA
Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.