I had an afternoon to work on some conversions. I've been trying (for years) to put together a DVD-A of non-SACD/DVD-A surround tracks to play in the car, and I came to this track. In the past, I had done one of these types of discs in DTS, and I remembered that this particular song had absolutely no vocals in the rears, but it was almost a complete instrumental track in the rears, one you could sing along to and not miss anything.
Anywho, for that old disc, I had used a Q8 "Best of the Youngbloods". For my new HiRez creation, I was working from a 24/96 Quad Reel rip of "The Youngbloods, their first album". When I got it in Sound Forge, I was freaked because the lead vocal was in all 4 channels!! What's up with that.
I went through the entire reel rip as a 4 channel wave (.w64) file to "see" and hear if it was in fact a quad reel, and although there were some obvious spots, the surround mix was seriously lacking, and no where near as discrete as the "Best of" Q8 that I (unfortunately) no longer have (although I had the raw 16/44.1 wav files of this tune stored away).
Has anyone else ever noticed this? I would imagine with tunes as old as this one, there is not going to be a "wild" surround mix, and I would guess that the guy who mastered the Q8 just left the lead vocal off of the rears to create a "surround" mix, but the difference between the same song on two releases is interesting, maybe even, dare I say it.....stunning!!! @:
Anywho, for that old disc, I had used a Q8 "Best of the Youngbloods". For my new HiRez creation, I was working from a 24/96 Quad Reel rip of "The Youngbloods, their first album". When I got it in Sound Forge, I was freaked because the lead vocal was in all 4 channels!! What's up with that.
I went through the entire reel rip as a 4 channel wave (.w64) file to "see" and hear if it was in fact a quad reel, and although there were some obvious spots, the surround mix was seriously lacking, and no where near as discrete as the "Best of" Q8 that I (unfortunately) no longer have (although I had the raw 16/44.1 wav files of this tune stored away).
Has anyone else ever noticed this? I would imagine with tunes as old as this one, there is not going to be a "wild" surround mix, and I would guess that the guy who mastered the Q8 just left the lead vocal off of the rears to create a "surround" mix, but the difference between the same song on two releases is interesting, maybe even, dare I say it.....stunning!!! @: