The Study on Surround Sound Production beyond the Stereo Techniques

Abstract

In the music recording industry, 5.1 surround sound productions have already become popular throughout the world, and music engineers have developed more advanced and complicated recording techniques for improved sound. This paper introduces the newly developed and integrated 5.1 surround recording techniques, which many engineers have proved effective over many years, and demonstrate some of the techniques used in specific venues under different situations and with various types of instrumentation. This paper consists of two different parts: Part 1 is about general stereo recording techniques and its developments and Part 2 is about specific concepts of 5.1 microphone techniques, such as the Sony/Philips and Fukada Tree microphone techniques used in 5.1 surround sound productions by combining and adapting from the best of the stereo techniques.