How come when I pan a sound to the surrounds the center changes volume or I can hear the left and right front channels in the center?
This happens because surround sound decoder’s are designed to decode/pan a single sound source at a time (the dominant signal). You should be careful not to confuse the decoder as some surround sound decoders may just give up and shutdown. This is caused by out of phase material being sent to two places in the sound field where the decoder can only decode a single sound position. If you are panning two or more sounds at the same time, then listen for ‘the wandering image’, where the sound just doesn’t behave as you panned it. It can also collapse or modulate the center image. This is not problem of the panner/encoder but rather a limitation of the LCRS matrix encode/decode system. To counteract this it’s best to pan/position single sounds at a time. If for instance you position the sound of the brook in the front center and the pan/position some crikets in the surrounds you may end up with both the crickets and ocean being mixed together in both the center and surround channels. This i
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