Hi to everyone!
I've been working on a project with my drummer for a year now and in a month or two, I'll start mixing it in surround in Cakewalk Sonar 4.
I would like to ask a couple of questions to people here who are doing music in surround.
I would like to know if you start the project right away in surround or you track everything in stereo (with surround in mind) and when it's time to mix, your switch the project to surround?
If you start in stereo do you record everything, I mean everything, even the stuff that will eventually end up in the rear speakers and then when you switch to surround mode, then you start to spread the stuff around, or you just record the basic of the song and then in surround you record the extra stuff to complete the project?
Wich DAW do you mainly use for this?
Any advice on this would be appreciated since I'm a newbie to this and I don't know anyone who know anything about surround prods. Everyone I know who are recording engineers shit on me when I say I want to do my project in surround, they either laugh at me or say surround is a gimmick and that I should give it up. (NO WAY!)
I don't know if I explain all this clearly, I speak french, so sorry for typos or misunderstanding, I could rephrase if it's unclear.
I will surely need a bunch of advice for this, I hope some people over here could help me. I kinda feel alone in this surround world.
Thanks in advance!
CarcPazu
I've been working on a project with my drummer for a year now and in a month or two, I'll start mixing it in surround in Cakewalk Sonar 4.
I would like to ask a couple of questions to people here who are doing music in surround.
I would like to know if you start the project right away in surround or you track everything in stereo (with surround in mind) and when it's time to mix, your switch the project to surround?
If you start in stereo do you record everything, I mean everything, even the stuff that will eventually end up in the rear speakers and then when you switch to surround mode, then you start to spread the stuff around, or you just record the basic of the song and then in surround you record the extra stuff to complete the project?
Wich DAW do you mainly use for this?
Any advice on this would be appreciated since I'm a newbie to this and I don't know anyone who know anything about surround prods. Everyone I know who are recording engineers shit on me when I say I want to do my project in surround, they either laugh at me or say surround is a gimmick and that I should give it up. (NO WAY!)
I don't know if I explain all this clearly, I speak french, so sorry for typos or misunderstanding, I could rephrase if it's unclear.
I will surely need a bunch of advice for this, I hope some people over here could help me. I kinda feel alone in this surround world.
Thanks in advance!
CarcPazu