Upmixing stereo field recordings to 5.1/7.1/atmos

[osa]

This concept of upmixing is still something i am trying to completely wrap my head around, but all of sites i am reading and seeing demos of halo upmix etc seem to be referring to upmixing stereo music mixes. Do the same principles apply to stereo ambience field recordings when it comes to upmixing stereo material into multichannel projects?

[Philip Perkins]

It has for me, although the results are more clearly audible with conventional music.  

[TVPostSound]

Yes, but Penteo does a better job with music than Halo.

Otherwise they all work the same way with ambience.

[osa]

I had purchased Halo UpMix after a lot of thinking it thru for my workflow and it seems to work great so far for my purposes - but with some music I tried a combo move of izotope music rebalance and Halo and the results have been really good for a little more separation

 

[TVPostSound]

On 9/14/2022 at 7:47 PM, osa said:

I had purchased Halo UpMix after a lot of thinking it thru for my workflow and it seems to work great so far for my purposes - but with some music I tried a combo move of izotope music rebalance and Halo and the results have been really good for a little more separation

 

If it works, thats great!! Do a mix down of the surround to male sure no phase issues were induced.