Well, my pro tip is to experiment and use your ears. In the standard the LFE channel is completely subpressed, which probably doesn’t make sense for an audio 5.1 mix. For surround audio the levels might be completely different for nice results. Most of the things I found online are examples of processing 5.1 movie sound to stereo. It seems there is a downmix ITU standard, although people also complain it doesn’t always give nice results. I'm going to carry on experimenting, as I am sure there won't be a one size fits all recipe for this, but if anyone else has tried a similar thing with any 5.1 music, i'd be grateful for any tips.Ĭlick to expand.I’m trying the same, but on a Mac so my processing chain is different. One suggestion I have found is to add the centre to left and right channels at -3dB, the left and right rears at -10dB and the LFE at -6dB. The default settings appear to just take the front left / front right channels at 100% without using the centre or rear channels at all. What I don't get with this is how to configure the channel mapper. Use dBPoweramp format converter with the following DSP options as suggested in the dBPoweramp forum: Increase bit depth to 32 bit floating, channel mapper, volume normalise, bit depth back to 16 with dither. Should I use this? How does Foobar actually mix the 6 channels down to stereo? How to prevent clipping?ģb. If I use this I get the option of using Replaygain. Use Foobar's downmix to stereo plugin to convert to stereo. Foobar2000 is used to convert the DSF files to 44.1kHz/24 bit WAV files.ģa. ISO2DSD is used to generate 5.1 DSF files.Ģ. I am starting with ripped ISOs of the SACDs (yes, I do own all of the discs). I have done a bit of searching around but am still unclear as to how to balance the channels to avoid clipping in the final result. I'm just experimenting with trying to downmix the (allegedly much less compressed and limited) 5.1 mixes of the 2007 Genesis albums to stereo just to hear what they sound like.

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