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Many people have asked us how our re-mastering process works. John Wheeler, Penteo's founder, explains:
"Let's assume you want us to process a legacy analog recording from the 1960s, such as Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence, as we did for the film Watchmen. We first listen to your entire recording to make sure that it transferred correctly. Next we listen to it using our own internal version of Penteo so that we can correct any minor left vs. right balance errors. Penteo requires a left vs. right balance accuracy at a level that nothing heretofore has ever required.
We also carefully analyze the high frequency waveforms that are common in both the left and right channels to correct any possible time-base alignment errors. Watchmen Soundtrack Processed by Penteo.
Keep in mind that everything we've done to this point is still in stereo. Basically we're taking an analog recording and correcting it in two dimensions: left vs. right balance, and left vs. right timing (time-base correction). The resulting stereo intermaster is as rock-solid and stable as if the recording had been mastered to a digital recorder, before digital recorders even existed.
The result so far is a super-stable stereo master. In and of itself, this stereo master is ideal for audiophile-quality stereo releases that sound better and are more stable on headphones than any previous release of this material. We then perform the actual Penteo parsing or sound separation process. This process results in three sets of stereo outputs: one for the front stereo speakers, a second for the rear stereo speakers, and one pair that is made up of the center channel paired with the LFE channel (the subwoofer channel).
Then, depending on your desired output format, the output can be returned as four stereo files (fronts, rears, center/LFE, original stereo), or it can be multiplexed into a single multi-channel file. We can deliver these files to you via secure-FTP, disc, or other media."
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