Choosing an appropriate monitor setup

Monitoring for film, television, and even some video games requires more than…the traditional two speaker stereo setup.…Even if a film will only be released on DVD, the audio output involves multiple speakers.…The standard film 5.1 setup is five speakers:…left, center, right, left surround, right surround, and a subwoofer.…That's the point one.…There are less used formats, 6.1 and 7.1, which include an overhead speaker…and a rear speaker.…

There's also a format that was resurrected by Sony called SDDS.…That has five speakers across the front:…left, left center, center, right center, and right.…In scoring music, the bare minimum that one should monitor is the left, right,…left surround, and right surround.…Obviously, when you are mixing, it's optimum to monitor in the exact same…format as the end product.…Pro Tools allows for multiple channel tracks that include Quad, 5.0, 5.1, etcetera.…

The method to keep all these tracks straight employs suffixes:….L, .C, .R, etcetera, for each of the individual tracks that are grouped on the…