And I agree, it would definitely sound better if the AC-3 files were decoded rather than recorded from, because I can hear some compression near the middle-end bits.
That aside, I love this karaoke version. It's very sweet.
I notice the drums have a different sound-ambience to them, which I like. But a little bit of effects are missing (which I don't know the names for) that I feel is a little shame. But then, I hear new things in the mix I have never heard before, which makes up for the tiny missing bits that there is.
And at that part where Freddie would sing "It's aaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllll so beautiful...", it's like there's a 2nd part to the song in this instrumental mix.
Overall, a beautiful mix.
One of my favourite things especially with surround sound remixes of Queen songs on DVD's (GVH1&2, ANATO, Game) is to compare the original stereo master against the new mixes to compare to see what's in the mix and what's not.
The ones that stand out to me in the DTS mixes are:
I Want It All (misses a lot of backing synths and keyboards, which disappoints me)
Another One Bites The Dust (the drum roll sounds heavier)
Coming Soon (of course they had to make a new mix, and I actually favor this new mix over the original!)
I've got a dual format Sony DRU-530A DVD burner, which burns + and -R(W) DVD's. It's almost always worked fine for me. I've only had to replace it once under warranty.
Angel of the Morning wrote: I've always had this idea that they could have a multitrack master with everything at the right level and stuff, sort of pre-mixed but still separate and perfect for downmixing to two channels, and then later they could just cut the vocal track, but that would be too convenient.
What strikes me as odd is that since 1983, Queen have been using digital tapes and disks to record almost all of the stuff from the Works sessions and on.
With these digital tapes, the computer picks up a digital track that makes it remember the volume fader settings, so I would assume that all they do is transfer the multitracked digital tape or disk to another copy, and just delete the main vocal track on the copy and mix it down to stereo and master it for CD, DVD, whatever!
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i' dont really understand how did you do to cut the voice ?
you take a 5.1 track and you downmix without the central channel ?