Foreword

Welcome to the huge world of surround sound. Surround sound has been available to professionals for many years, but is just now coming of age in the desktop authoring world as a common choice for multimedia and music authors.

Surround sound isn’t a simple matter of just taking a stereo or mono audio track and porting it to 6 different locations, it’s about understanding balance, relative power, phasing, realistic placement techniques, down mixing, resampling, encoding, compression, equalization, and so much, much more. This book from Jeffrey P. Fisher is about the discovery process that makes all these seemingly complex subjects become clear and concise.

What few books are currently available on surround sound are essentially white papers ...

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