HiRez Poll Wilson, Casandra - TRAVELING MILES [DVD-A]

[J. PUPSTER]

well i'm still fiddle-diddling as we speak but i think i've hit the jackpot as to what's going on now.

i wish i could say the mix post-tinkering is as interesting as it is straight off the disc but it isn't, its still nice though and sounds much better balanced with the overloud FL, RR & LFE all dialled back and the other channels level adjusted.

tbh i smelt a rat (or rather spotted one!) as soon as i saw a rear channel with so little going on in it! the penny dropped, there's no lead vocal reberb in there (ch.4 is all low bass content, that's definitely the LFE present and correct) so Channel 5 must be the Centre!!

then the channels with lead vocal reverb in them (2 & 3) revealed themselves as Rears (i'm going on Ch.2 as Left Rear and Ch.3 Right Rear)...

..and the originally overloud Rear Right (creating a weird kind of diagonal Centre in the middle of the room) not only looks like a Front/Main channel, it is!

so to me (as was suggested on here years ago) it was indeed a bit of a screw up.. not the mix itself but of channel assignment on the disc and then i'm guessing somebody (mastering engineer or authoring house maybe?) thought "gosh this doesn't sound right! lets boost the Fronts and LFE and no-one will notice!"

there is an upside to all this, in that i'm really listening intently to this for possibly the first time ever - and greatly enjoying it, its a lovely album i never appreciated before and dismissed with a QQ "7" because the mix didn't grab me.. now i know why!

I always felt there’s missing info in those light channels. Might diddly dick wif the dts for full speed rum er run at it

 

[fredblue]

so, to recap, i believe the channels are originally (wrongly) assigned in the MLP 5.1 as such;

1 = Front Left
2 = Rear Left
3 = Rear Right
4 = LFE
5 = Centre
6 = Front Right

so if you..

- leave Channels 1 & 4 where they are

- lower Channel 1 by -3dB

- lower Channel 4 by -10dB

- reassign Channel 2 to Channel 5

- reassign Channel 3 to Channel 6

- reassign Channel 5 to Channel 3

- reassign Channel 6 to Channel 2

- and lower your new Channel 2 (previously Channel 6) by -3dB..

...you should get something i feel is possibly closer to what was originally intended. (maybe!)

 

[fredblue]

I always felt there’s missing info in those light channels. Might diddly dick wif the dts for full speed rum er run at it

yeay! that's the spirit! rum, run at it! tbh i haven't looked at the DTS 96/24 yet, only the lossless MLP tracks. bonne chance!

 

[Fourplay]

so, to recap, i believe the channels are originally (wrongly) assigned in the MLP 5.1 as such;

1 = Front Left
2 = Rear Left
3 = Rear Right
4 = LFE
5 = Centre
6 = Front Right

so if you..

- leave Channels 1 & 4 where they are

- lower Channel 1 by -3dB

- lower Channel 4 by -10dB

- reassign Channel 2 to Channel 5

- reassign Channel 3 to Channel 6

- reassign Channel 5 to Channel 3

- reassign Channel 6 to Channel 2

- and lower your new Channel 2 (previously Channel 6) by -3dB..

...you should get something i feel is possibly closer to what was originally intended. (maybe!)

As a reminder and for those arriving recently, there is a thread to gather channel reassignment recommendations:

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...eassignment-recommendations.19693/post-225944