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Sound Advice: Surround on the Cheap - Part 1
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The point of surround sound is to put the viewer in the middle of the action -- as though they were standing at the camera position, hearing everything they see and more. While thoughts of jets flying by or bullets whizzing past your head are common, most surround content is environmental. Consider the makeup of a typical surround soundtrack. The center channel is almost always used for dialog -- drawing the viewer's attention to the screen. The left and right channels contain audio information relevant...
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Surround mixing is a very subjective matter however; there are some conventions we can start with. In addition, there are separate techniques for surround mixing in an audio application versus a video-editing program. We'll try to boil it all down to the essential elements. Here's the scenario: you're mixing a dialog piece between a couple of characters in a park. You have your dialog elements along with stereo music, a couple of sound effects and the simulated surround recording described in last...
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