Korgscrew
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Posted: April 12 2005, 10:13 |
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Viv's voice is, oddly, more left-centre (that is, equally spread between front and rear left) when reproduced properly. It's very difficult to locate him as being there, as things placed in that position don't image in the same way as things placed between front left and right, or indeed rear left and right (there's also some of him in the right channels, just not as much). I think putting him in the middle would have made more sense, really.
I'd be disappointed if your Dolby decoder didn't decode Dolby Surround, as that's what it's meant to do It should produce interesting effects on a variety of ordinary stereo CDs though (or any stereo sources you care to feed through it).
Don't know about the Apocalypse Now CD, but it happens. The soundtrack from the film version of Tommy is encoded in QS, as that's what they used to produce the film's original 'quintaphonic' sound (a four channel QS mix with an added hard centre) - they transferred that mix direct to disc (originally LP of course), and the resulting album is an unmarked QS release. Apocalypse Now was released with a Dolby Soundtrack, and I can't really see why the music would have been quad encoded at any point (especially in 1979 when quad was firmly on its way out - it's a bit of a mystery why they bothered with Exposed actually, considering that they'd given up on doing Incantations in quad, feeling that the concept was commercially dead), but if it was encoded with a matrix quad system when it was mixed back then, it'll still be in that format now. If it's been remixed since then, it won't be.
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