Part Seven Rethinking Production with Surround Sound By Jeff Wilson Digital TV is here. And you know what that means. Soon Downtown Chevrolet and Harvey's Superette are going to want their commercials done in high-impact Surround Sound. The good news is that some music library companies, like FirstCom Music (for instance) are committed to developing Surround music libraries for use in your production work. more

Part Six New Life to Old Recordings By Jeff Wilson You will be simply amazed at what Surround can do for an old recording. In this installment, we will apply some simple FX plug-ins in some new ways, and make those old tracks sound cooler than you could imagine. more

Part Five Tuning up the Soundfield By Jeff Wilson Panning your inputs into the Surround soundfield is half the battle. But there are some important parameters we can use to define the general soundfield itself, to really give your recording five dimensions. more

Part Four Mixing It Up By Jeff Wilson Now that we've built the Surround mixer, let's put it to use. You are now at the point of no return. Mixing to Surround is so much fun you can't go back once you've experienced it. There. Don't say I didn't warn you. more

Part Three Building a Surround Mixer By Jeff Wilson Here, we learn the nuts-and-bolts of actually doing a Surround mix. We are going to start from scratch and build a custom Surround mixer using Minnetonka Audio Software's Mx51. more

Part Two Surround Mixing: Things to Consider By Jeff Wilson The bottom line is that your recording will be played on systems with many different configurations, and you want your recording to work as well as possible on all of them. more

Part One Surround on CD By Jeff Wilson Houston, we have a problem. How do you give your Surround recording to someone so that they can take it home and listen to it? more