DTS Audio CD Encoding Problem

[BoXecutor]

HI,

followed all the guide posted on how to convert normal audio cd to dts audio and it all works but it sounds nothing like a true dts audio cd.

It sounds more like all that has been done it to have all six channels with the same sound instead of splitting them.

Is there any other way other then using plogue/besweet/surcode to make a proper dts audio cd that has the six channels split corretly from a normal audio cd.

Cheers

[Swatpup]

what you are making is not dts cds but ambisonic cds. DTS is just the carrier of the information.The goal of ambisonic is to make a surround field not to split audio into channels. I have yet to have found a method that effectively turns a stereo cd into a full fledge 5.1 expericence.

[Umma]

A comparable sound might be gotten with Surcode's MX51 after some very tedious and time-consuming processing and editing in different audio editors...for example, I've found that with Samplitude you can pretty much isolate instruments and some sounds (to a degree), but it was too time-consuming for me to learn how to use the program effectively in its entirety. :)

[TerraForce1]

Hi,

What did you expect? Mixing in DTS is different. But I dont agree with the fact that all six channel sound the same. Because the amplitude level of the different channels differ and you have also the subwoofer wave. And when done correctly (?) it comes very close to original DTS recordings. For example I tried it with Hotel California accoustic version (had to invert some channel mapping) but sure did come close to its original counterpart. With really nice effects, but ofcourse the original DTS mix is better. At some point you here a really nice harmonic in the DTS recording which isn't present in the ambisonic recording, but that is for the very keen listener. I think I could fool anybody that owned the original DVD that I used that DTS track.

But hey tastes differ and you are pro or anti ambisonic. For me it's superb. I don't have the urge to remix the whole song for my personal taste (if you have the time you should go for it.

[Tuning]

DTS is exactly 6 discrete channels stored in single stream.As studios use commercial technology,each channel is filled with different sounds recorded usind diferent set of microphones and mixed to different channels.(That is here there is seperate 5 channels to be mixed)But some part can be same in all the 5channels(except LFE)..the medium range sounds.On reproduction these seperate sounds are re-generated as done while recording using mutiple microphones/sources.

Ambisonics or any other method creates a virtulal 5.1 by controlling the amplitude/delay/...etc.This can have multiple channels with making rear with some delay and cutting higher frequencies to create LFE.But u cannot re-create as done using different microphones/sources.

Thus how hard u try to create a DTS from stereo source,the quality or sound seperation cannot be as real as original multichannel DTS.

-Tuning