It's likely there soon will come a huge revolution in the way listening to music (click on the pic to see more)
Printz Music can easily make really good surround sound mix of an album if you export (bounce) instrument by instrument from the same time/place with the respective plug-ins. This will provide a sound true to the sound from the CD and make it manageable to quickly create a really good surround mix! You’ll get back multitrack flac files or currently an ISO file to a Bluray or AVCHD - DVD in 96kHz 24bit (or 48-24) that can be put up for sale on your website / record label or otherwise via Bandcamp or janprintz.dk
This is
only a hobby project, and this reserves the right to first select music that
falls into the taste of the surroundmixer (especially progressive rock, ambient
and another music with a great sound !;)
As it is
now, it can rarely pay off, getting professional studios to create 5.1 mixes of
the albums; Therefore, it is important to support surround sound albums by
volunteers.
In case of many 5.1 jobs, there will be sought funds to get more time and/or the 5.1 mix will be offered cheaply at a 100-200 euro level.
As what
came first? The chicken or the egg ... Here it has enormous significance that most
people don’t hear music in 5.1 because their favorite band often does not make
music in that quality.
Printz
Music will do something about it (and encourage others who can to do the same)
CD format
from 1980 that is 37 years old. Compressed music from streaming services gives
even lower quality. The advantage is that it's easy to stream and you can have
a lot of his music on your mobile and is therefore so common.
If you have
some music you enjoy listening to and can hear it at least on standard speakers
the quality of the CD format is outdated and streamed music even worse.
Therefore, vinyl had a renaissance and has itself a better sound than CD audio
sampled only at 44.1 kHz 16 bit, but the problem it’s crunchy and there’s scratches
that are not supposed to be with the music. This is annoying listen to
especially at quiet passages of the music.
By far the
best quality of music is nowadays sampled at 96 kHz 24 bit and especially when it
is made in quadrophonic (4.0) or 5.1 surround sound. It can now be heard
multichannel flac files from a computer or on Blu-ray and some DVD’s (better
than Dolby Digital only at 44 kHz-16bit)
Streaming
Services could easily keep up with and deliver sound much better quality if the
demand for it was present. It’s a shame that not even Youtube will allow 5.1
audio, even when there already is a choice of different qualities. This will
probably only change when demand is high enough from the users or very popular
bands.
From here
encouraged to demand better quality, including 5.1 sound and bands to give
their fans the possibility to hear the music in the best quality!
Most people
are used to hearing music from a mobile computer or a smaller unit (preferably
without wires) and got the sound in stereo or mono. This corresponds to be at a
concert and hear the music from a certain distance.
But how
many don’t want to get up in the middle of the stage and the orchestra playing
around you?! – That’s the way a reasonable 5.1 surround sound mix will sound!
But how many have thought about this? Just a few, and that’s probably the most
important reason that people are not really interested in listening to music in
5.1 surround sound. Would you like to sit and enjoy a good album in a music
system, it requires just a surround amplifier, a pair of speakers and wires to.
This also goes against of the hearing 5.1 audio. Some have, however, a smaller
or larger home theater system for watching movies with front and rear speakers
that easily could play music in 5.1 or 4.0. Otherwise, there has been
relatively cheap headphones on the market that has 4-5 units for each ear as
reasonably well can play surround sound (Also works well in combination with
gaming)
I could see
for myself a new export adventure with wireless speakers and a transmitter that
can wirelessly send music to 4 devices (Quadrofoni) or 6 devices via wifi, for
here bluetooth enough not supply data fast enough. Perhaps new apps to what's
available in the market now could make it or just upgrades to existing software.
The
difference is minimal for 5.1 and 4.0 (quadrophonic or 4.1 with bass to the
subwoofer). They provide both audio in surround. 5.1 is designed for movies
where particular speech coming from the center speaker. If one vocal or solo
instrument comes only from the center speaker then it sounds too thin. But the
center speaker can be well used to a little extra instruments, if there are
many in the music.
Here the
last few years can be seen that several bands have eyes up to release their
music in surround sound mix!
Get some 5.1 speakersystems or 5.1 headphones before your neighbor !;)
