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I know that the manual discusses setting up for surround in Logic, but I'm just wondering how difficult/time-consuming/different people have found dealing with setting up sequences and mixing when going from stereo to surround in Logic?
thanks in advance-

Real easy, not a problem at all. You'll lose your pan placements but simply set up your outs correctly highlight all your tracks in the audio environment and convert them to "surround". One thing to watch out for is the centre channel. I would always recommend panning your L/R field stuff between L&R without using the C channel. Especially if the stuff you're panning is from a stereo source (phase nightmare). So to do this double click on the pan knob and select "5.1 without centre" in the output pane. Some sound guys really like you to keep the C channel clear for dialogue but for montages/ music-centric sequences but slinging a mono kick or bass into the centre speaker is never going to be a bad thing, imagine an entire woofer dedicated to the bit of your score that gets you laid?
Couple of other pointers:
• Using a big reverb? set up a duplicate verb for the Ls/Rs send only, set a slightly larger initial delay (10msecs would do you nice) and pan it hard to the surrounds, hey presto surround reverb.
• Don't ever use saxophones in surround.
• Don't stick too much dry/ live matter in the surrounds, people will fear you're taking people "out of the movie" and re-recording mixers don't like it either. So reverbs, delay returns and a snitch of this and that will be substantial. I love duping pads for the surrounds/ Take an Absynth pad and then adjust a small parameter to change the sound slightly. Get one to fight the other between fronts and rears, hey presto, surround!
• Watch the amounts you're sending the LFE, this stuff works better if you're selective. So if a sound isn't in need of sub assistance zero the LFE send (which - again - you get to on the surround pan pot). If you can limit your LFE send to a bit of kick and bass you will be looking at fattos tightus maximus.
Best of luck and hope this has been a help.
C.
P.S. When aligning your speakers remember that the surrounds are always attenuated slightly differently. Off the top of my head I think it's -4db, but don't quote me on this (yes I got someone else to do it in my studio, and it's way past time I did it again!). Can someone confirm this?
P.P.S Saxophones...... don't you think we should leave those onerous windy pipes in the 20th century?

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