into surround sound. Not unlike the evolution of mono into stereo, the finer points of mixing, panning, bass management, speaker placement, movie theater Vs home theater, disc formats and the alphabet soup of formats themselves, from THX to DTS to Dolby to LFE, to SACD to DVD, to DVD-A and so on, became the critical issue of the day. Speaker placement is another hot topic. Starting with the ITU suggested specifications of stereo placement. ITU: International Telecommunications Union. In surround
performance... ... middle of paper ... ...DAWs that started to become very popular was Digidesign’s Pro-Tools, a combination of hardware and software aimed to process audio content with a multi-track approach since its inception in 1984, the original program was capable of 4 channels of audio play-back with the help of a very specialized and expensive line of audio cards. Today a mid-sized Pro-Tools system can cost as much as $80,000 Dollars and it is the music industry standard for recording,
60s Research Document 4.1.1,2 History and development of the Multitrack Recorder Multitrack recorders were originally developed in the early 1950s in Germany. The initial principle of multitracks was to divide a tape in two parts and record different sounds onto each and play them back concurrently. The fact that both tracks would be on the same tape would mean they would be synchronised exactly. In classical music recordings of the 1950s, the early two track machines were first used and recorded