This was a question asked recently by ‘mikevarela’ recently on the Digidesign User Conference, he asked…
Moved to surround in my home studio (LE) and was wondering about the importance of a surround bundle. Do any of you use? Have some questions too.
I know one of the plugs (360 manager) has a matrix functionality, but will it code an LtRt or LoRo from surround. I’m thinking no, but can’t seem to understand from their online documentation.
Also, how important is it to have a few plugs like the ones available for surround mixing?
I have TL Space and am probably gonna get Altiverb, but wondering how much of the other stuff gets used. It s quite expensive.
‘mr.armadillo’ replied….
No. The 360 manager is a bass management and monitoring plug-in. The 360 mixdown plug-in can create Lo/Ro. You can’t create an Lt/Rt with Waves’ bundle. You’ll need Dolby Surround Tools. I own the bundle and really like the R360 Reverb, the L360, and I use the LFE360 on every session. Those are nice to have. However, you don’t really need it if you mix surround IMO.
‘infiniteloop’ added…
The waves surround bundle is probably slightly overkill for an LE system. You can get the UM226 upmixer separately, it’s the same as the surround spreader in 360, and you can upgrade your Neyrinck encoder to LtRt cheap. That’s all i’ve found I really need from the bundle, plus the Neyrinck is a proper Dolby encoder rather than “LR wide” in the Waves bundle. There, you’ve saved about $1400!
Any one else got some experiences of working in surround on LE rigs and would care to share them, then please add your comments to this post.
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