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SACD Multchannel mixing - Email from Sony Music SACD
Not sure if much of you are interested but heres a email I received from Sony Music SACD, I was asking about more releases, when they were planning on releasing more and releasing what
Hello,
There are many issues that lay in putting out a new format, especially in
surround sound. When stereo recordings are remastered for CD, the goal is
nearly always to take a master recording mixdown dedicated to stereo and
make it sound better, better being defined as "more like the master tape of
the original event." In the event of 5.1 audio, "better" isn't necessarily
more like the master tape, because all but the newest recordings (and a
limited number of quad recordings from the late 1970s) were not mixed and
mastered for surround sound applications from the start.
The difficulty arises when you creatively have to reinterpret how a very
familiar song or album sounds in stereo for surround.
The real problem is that it is logistically difficult and politically even
harder to make a surround mix that the artist, management, original
engineer and record label will accept for release to those of us with the
gear ready to rock at home.
The logistics for getting a record remixed and remastered to surround are
insane.
Furthermore, we are exploring several seminal albums, from the
Legacy/Epic/Columbia vaults, for reissue on SACD.
Please remember that it takes time to get a new format off of the ground,
(money, rights, etc.).
Thanks for your interest and please don't lose faith in SACD
Wes Larkins
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