Hey people. I'm back for a while. So.... My main musical project, and 2/3 of a band so far, Eliphas My Master plays heavy psychedelic rock/metal. Me and the bassist are from the Black Country, near Birmingham city centre. We are looking for a drummer, I might aswell throw that in there, in case any of you are young musicians.
Anyway, I figured out how to get near true (?) quadraphonic playback from my PC last night. I have an Alesis iO 26 configured for quad, then my media player, foobar2000 configured to convert stereo to 4 channel sound, and then I have 4 outputs on my Alesis iO 26 going to my Rotel RX-154A to the discrete (?) auxillary inputs. I tell ya, it really does sound amazing. And of course, I played the 2011 CD remaster of DSOTM last night to test it out, haha.
So I am intending, today, of configuring Cubase to start creating a seperate quadraphonic mix of the album I am working on currently. I already have a bunch of songs, mixed in stereo, of course, but I really want to create an alternate quadraphonic also. I feel super inspired and it seems I am becoming very ambitious now, the music is already tbh since it is very different, and unique IMO to anything in the rock/metal music scenes currently.
I am program all the drums on the recordings so far. If we manage to find a drummer, and go into a studio some day, then less work for me, but I really enjoy working at home at my own pace, without a producer I don't know interferring with my songs.
Does anyone have any tips and advice for me in regards to producing this quadraphonic mix of my album "Hymns to the New Dawn", please? I'm not expecting my music to be of many people's tastes on here, but I could be surprised. My music is all over the internet on various websites. If you search Eliphas My Master in Google, all my uploads will come up and my blog also where I am posting updates on the album's writing and record process.
What I'd especially like to know, is how to create quad files like wavs and mp3s and eventually, how to burn these to some sort of audio disc. I will mostly just distribute the quad files, to whoever has a suitable configuration to play them back.
I'm expecting all this to be at least a bit more complicated than I currently realise, so please, any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Jon
Anyway, I figured out how to get near true (?) quadraphonic playback from my PC last night. I have an Alesis iO 26 configured for quad, then my media player, foobar2000 configured to convert stereo to 4 channel sound, and then I have 4 outputs on my Alesis iO 26 going to my Rotel RX-154A to the discrete (?) auxillary inputs. I tell ya, it really does sound amazing. And of course, I played the 2011 CD remaster of DSOTM last night to test it out, haha.
So I am intending, today, of configuring Cubase to start creating a seperate quadraphonic mix of the album I am working on currently. I already have a bunch of songs, mixed in stereo, of course, but I really want to create an alternate quadraphonic also. I feel super inspired and it seems I am becoming very ambitious now, the music is already tbh since it is very different, and unique IMO to anything in the rock/metal music scenes currently.
I am program all the drums on the recordings so far. If we manage to find a drummer, and go into a studio some day, then less work for me, but I really enjoy working at home at my own pace, without a producer I don't know interferring with my songs.
Does anyone have any tips and advice for me in regards to producing this quadraphonic mix of my album "Hymns to the New Dawn", please? I'm not expecting my music to be of many people's tastes on here, but I could be surprised. My music is all over the internet on various websites. If you search Eliphas My Master in Google, all my uploads will come up and my blog also where I am posting updates on the album's writing and record process.
What I'd especially like to know, is how to create quad files like wavs and mp3s and eventually, how to burn these to some sort of audio disc. I will mostly just distribute the quad files, to whoever has a suitable configuration to play them back.
I'm expecting all this to be at least a bit more complicated than I currently realise, so please, any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Jon