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Audio 2.0 to 5.1

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Hi guys, I need your help, I want create from 2,0 Livemetallica audio 5,1, but how to create it ??? Any help is appreciated
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seems my friend dusan has a new project? :rolleyes:
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Psssst ^_^
norbinho wrote: seems my friend dusan has a new project? :rolleyes:
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Dusan wrote: Psssst ^_^
norbinho wrote: seems my friend dusan has a new project? :rolleyes:
hehehe :P
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You should contact Cagday Y. (Infernal), the guy who did the Athens 07 cammix. ;)
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Yeah, contact Cagdas IMO.
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Hey dudes ! Great idea ! THANX !
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I've recently watched sjmike's Buffalo 89 bootleg.
When I selected the Dolby sound option in PowerDVD,
it made all the difference. It sounded way better that way.
So I think, even if it's a fake Dolby, it really enhances the quality.
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I see you are calling me. ("Cagdas" is the right spelling of my name btw. "Y." stands for my last name)

OK... there are no big secrets about converting stereo to Dolby 5.1.
First of all, you need to know that converting stereo to 5.1 will never be like the original dolby 5.1. But at the end you will get a better encoded/remastered sound.

There are 2 programs you will need
- Goldwave
- AC3Tools Pro


Here is the tutorial I've been using for my projects:
01. Rip a CD track to a WAV file and rename it master.wav (you don't have to rename it, it just gets confusing!);

02. Open the master.wav in Goldwave;

03. On the Goldwave toolbar, click "Edit", "Channel"; "Left". The left-channel waveform will be highlighted;

04. Click "File", "Save Selection As..." and name the file "left_front". Change the "Save as type" to "Wave" and the File Attributes to "16 bit, mono, signed";

05. On the Goldwave toolbar, click "Edit", "Channel"; "Right". The right-channel waveform will be highlighted;

06. Click "File", "Save Selection As..." and name the file "right_front". Change the "Save as type" to "Wave" and the File Attributes to "16 bit, mono, signed";

07. At this point, the right-channel waveform will still be highlighted. On the Goldwave toolbar, click on "Effects" and then "Invert";

08. Click on "Edit", "Channel" and "Both". Click "File", "Save Selection As..." and name the file "right_back". Change the "Save as type" to "Wave" and the File Attributes to "16 bit, mono, signed";

You've just created a right-channel OOPS file! :) For more information on the OOPS effect, click here (http://www.beatletracks.com/btoops.html).

09. Close the file onscreen by clicking "File" and "Close" on the Goldwave toolbar;

10. Open the original WAV named master.wav;

11. On the Goldwave toolbar, click "Edit", "Channel"; "Left". The left-channel waveform will be highlighted;

12. On the Goldwave toolbar, click on "Effects" and then "Invert";

13. Click on "Edit", "Channel" and "Both". Click "File", "Save Selection As..." and name the file "left_back". Change the "Save as type" to "Wave" and the File Attributes to "16 bit, mono, signed";

That's the hard part over and done with!

14. Close the file onscreen by clicking "File" and "Close" on the Goldwave toolbar;

15. Open the original WAV named master.wav;

16. Move your mouse over Goldwave's toolbar icons until you find the "Low/Highpass" option and click it;

17. In the Filter options, click the radio button which says "Dynamic". The default option is for the filter is "Lowpass" but if this isn't already selected, make sure that it is!;

18. Change the initial Hz to 80 and the final Hz to 120 (you can just overtype the values). The default "Steepness" is 5, which is fine. Click "OK";

19. Click "File", "Save Selection As..." and name the file "lfe". Change the "Save as type" to "Wave" and the File Attributes to "16 bit, mono, signed";

20. Close the file onscreen by clicking "File" and "Close" on the Goldwave toolbar;

21. Open the original WAV named master.wav;

22. Move your mouse over Goldwave's toolbar icons until you find the "Maximise" option and click it;

23. Half the volume of the file by clicking the "New maximum" radio button, adjust the slider to 0.5 and then click "OK";

24. Move your mouse over Goldwave's toolbar icons until you find the "Parametric EQ" option and click it;

25. Choose the "Presets" option named "Treble boost" (its towards the bottom of the screen) and click "OK";

26. 19. Click "File", "Save Selection As..." and name the file "centre". Change the "Save as type" to "Wave" and the File Attributes to "16 bit, mono, signed".

You now have six (5 + 1) channels from an originally stereo source! Okay, its not perfect but its really, really convincing.
You can also tweak the EQ a bit more for the channels you seperated/encoded just to way you like.

When you have all 6 channels ready, open AC3Tools Pro and select your channels and render them as *.ac3. You can also do rendering with Acid PRO or with Sony Vegas if you have the codec installed.

That's all about it. Hope it helps...
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Re: Audio 2.0 to 5.1

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wow, thanx for tutorial infernall !!