Pro Tools Surround Sound Mixing

(Book). This essential guide takes you through all the steps you need to record, mix and produce multi-channel music with Digidesign's Pro Tools. It covers preproduction, recording, setup, mixing and delivery of surround music, and explains how you can use Pro Tools to deliver mixes in DVD-Vdieo, DVD-Audio, and SACD. You'll also learn about encoding mixes for Dolby Digital and DTS, mixing to picture, and the strengths of the Pro Tools platform. In addition, the included DVD provides audio examples of the concepts illustrated in the book.

RICH TOZZOLI is an award-winning producer, mixer, engineer, and composer. He has worked with such artists as Al Di Meola, Ace Frehley, Hall and Oates, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and the Marsalis family. Also specialising in 5.1 Surround Sound production, he has mixed DVDs and/or HD television broadcasts for the likes of David Bowie, Average White Band, Billy Squier, Robert Klein, and the Cincinnati Pops. As a technologist, he has written hundreds of articles for numerous Pro Audio magazines and is the author of several books. As a composer, his music can be heard on Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, HBO, and many more.