7.1 speaker placement might be wrong

[Sir Terrence]

Originally Posted by guitarist155

not arguing with you, I have always known it to be the way you describe, however i had a teacher tell me they always mixed the 7.1 with the imax setup and since all the 7.1 mics i have seen agree with the imax setup, I am just very confused as all documentation i have found never really mentions 7.1

and the one article on 7.1 mixing i found that does say the ''most common'' way of mixing is the standard we know however it says that as of yet 7.1 really has no standard and has been mixed many ways

Actually there are not commercial music products mixed in 7.1, and only a few films with 7.1 repurposed tracks. The studio I work at, Disney has done 7.1 mixes, but we followed the traditional 7.1 speaker layout. I also think that Mi Casa has done a 7.1 mix, and they also used the traditional 7.1 speaker layout. So the only known sources of 7.1 that I know of come out of the film community, and their layouts have all been identical, but not the IMAX setup. So the idea that 7.1 has been mixed many ways is not the truth at all. It's been only mixed one way, and that is the tradition 7.1 layout.