Porcupine Tree : Arriving Somewhere DVD

Posted by: nap-ster on 14 January 2007

Has anyone had a listen to this in dts?

It seems strange that there is no real centre channel audio present. The vocal seems to have been mixed out to the front left and right channels? In fact it seems silent altogether apart from between songs when there is a bit of crowd noise?

Posted on: 14 January 2007 by David Dever

That's probably a good idea–the stage at the Park West in Chicago is in a corner of the room (just kidding, I was there at the show)....

Posted on: 14 January 2007 by nap-ster

Good answer!!

The reason I was asking is I know Stephen Wilson is a big fan of releasing material in surround formats. Deadwing on dts and DVD-A are excellent mixes. I guess I am wondering the reasoning behind the lack of a centre channel on the Arriving Somewhere mix.

I am hoping to get to the Glasgow gig in a couple of months time.

Posted on: 14 January 2007 by David Dever

The DTS-commissioned surround mixes (by Elliott Scheiner) are pretty amazing–although I do recall seeing three separate stereo mic arrays for crowd noise (Schoeps pair, AKG 414XLS pair, and some pair resembling a pair of Neumann KM84s).

I did not see any other ambient mics–but I was busy! (Next night was Tortoise with Daniel Lanois, BTW.)