Surround Sound for Cinema can be quite confusing, considering all of the audio release formats currently in use; not to mention all of the formats used in the recent past. I had set out researching all of this information, with the intention of organizing it all into one concise and easy to understand article -- but I discovered that an anonymous scholar and former projectionist had already done it better than I could!
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M-S Stereo Simplified
Mid Side stereo recording can be scarey if you spend too much time reading a lot of high tech articles. But as Audio Technica and sound mixer Robert Bigelow (music mixer for HBO’s Treme) demonstrated at the 2012 NAB Show, it is actually a whole lot simpler and easier than you think to record stereo tracks in the field that can be varied during the stages of post production.
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