DTS' Digital Sound Capabilities Proliferate

BY CHRISTOPHER WALSH tening to our favorite albums in car and listen to it, you're going sold worldwide. Zappa set documenting October our two -hour commute. Car to want that system." DTS- licensed consumer products 1978 concerts in New York. While plenty of new announce- audio is the key to creating a huge On Sept. 8, a concert by David include DVD players, receivers, "We see tremendous growth ments are expected at the upcoming demand for 5.1 music. One car is Bowie at Riverside Studios in London amplifiers, videogame consoles, car potential in Europe and Asia," Del - Audio Engineering Society Conven- was broadcast live in DTS 24 -bit/ audio processors and PC -based soft- Grosso confides. "As confused as tion, scheduled for Oct. 10 -13 at the 96kHz 5.1- channel surround sound ware decoders and speaker systems. much of the American public is Javits Convention Center in New to theaters in London, Paris, Munich DTS also licenses its technology to about surround sound -a little York, Digital Theater Systems (DTS) and Zurich, while a re- broadcast will the pro audio industry and has bit -and format-a lot, Europe and and its label affiliate, DTS Enter- take place Sept. 15 in the U.S. and released content on DVD -A and 5.1 Asia are in a mode of `If it sounds tainment, aren't holding back with Canada (see story, page 6). music discs, as well as videogames good, I'll take it,' " news of recent milestones. DTS encoded the multichannel for the Sony PlayStation 2 system. The proliferation of surround The 2004 Acura TL series car, audio feed at the concert venue with DTS has also announced Euro- sound music has been a long which includes a DVD-Audio player its CAE -5 broadcast encoder. The pean distribution. Cadiz Music, process, from the ill -fated quad for- as a standard feature (See Studio encoded signal was fed to Tandberg based in Greenwich, England, will mat to today's era of film sound- Monitor, this page), is the first OEM MPEG2 equipment for global satel- oversee distribution of DTSE music tracks in the cinema and on DVD - car audio system to feature DTS 5.1- lite delivery coordinated by Quan- titles, introducing the entire line of Video, audio playback formats channel digital surround sound in tum Digital, and the signal received DVD -Audio and 5.1 music discs. DVD -Audio and Super Audio CD the U.S. The system will play back at designated cinemas was fed to The first DISE titles available and, increasingly, broadcast. If 5.1- DVD -Audio and DTS 5.1 music discs DTS' new XD10 digital cinema through Cadiz are both DVD -Audio channel music is widely adopted by as well as standard CDs. media player, which output the discs: "Songs for Survivors" by consumers, it will be in large part "Music in 5.1 surround certainly multichannel audio. Graham Nash, the first major artist because of the efforts of pioneers sounds great in home theater sys- DTS says that more than 200 mil- to release an album in the DVD - DTS and Dolby Laboratories. tems," says David DelGrosso, VP not going to change the world, lion consumer electronics products Audio format prior to its CD As DelGrosso says, "We're either of marketing at DTS Entertain- but one domino can knock down containing DTS- licensed technolo- release with this project, in 2002; going to get a lot of credit or a lot of ment. "But most of us are still lis- quite a few more. If you sit in that gy or intellectual property have been and "Halloween," a live Frank blame someday."

DVD -Audio Rides Along With Acura's TL Sedan

DVD -Audio and surround sound The sedan, which goes on sale Oct. The Acura/ELS Premium Sur- with Panasonic Automotive Sys- playback format that can repli- take a large step forward with the 6, is the first vehicle in North Ameri- round Sound System was de- tems Co. of America. cate what artists and engineers imminent availability of the 2004 ca to be equipped with a standard signed by producer /engineer Surround sound in the auto- hear in a studio environment. Acura TL. DVD- Audio/surround sound system. Elliot Scheiner in collaboration mobile is a long- anticipated phe- "I wanted this system to sound nomenon. Labels supporting the as close to a control room envi- DVD -Audio for- mat, along with SEPTEMBER 20 B illboard" audio profes- 2003 PRODUCTION CREDITS sionals versed in surround Studio BILLBOARD'S NO. 1 SINGLES (SEPTEMBER 13, 2003) mixing and DVD -A author- CATEGORY HOT 100 R &B COUNTRY MODERN ROCK DANCE SALES ing, are hopeful Monitor TITLE FRONTIN' ITS FIVE O'CLOCK FAINT HOLLYWOOD that DVD - Artist/ , R. Diddy & Pharrell Featuring Jay -V SOMEWHERE Linkin Park Madonna/ equipped cars Producer / Alan Jackson & D. Gilmore, Linkin Park Madonna, Mirwais (Label) J. Bridges (Star Trak /Arista) Jimmy Buffett/ (Warner Bros.) (Maverick/Warner Bros.) will propel a By Christopher Walsh (Bad Boy/UMRG) K. Stegall format still Nashville) cwalsh @billboard.com (Arista struggling to RECORDING STUDIO(S) BASEMENT BEATS HOVERCRAFT TRACKING ROOM NRG SONY, find main- (Location) (St. Louis, MO) (Virgina Beach, VA) SOUND STATION (North Hollywood, CA) SARM Engineer(s) DADDY'S HOUSE BASSEINE (Nashville, TN) Don Gilmore, (London) stream acceptance. ronment as possible," says New York) (New York) SHRIMPBOAT SOUND John Ewing, Jr. Mark "Spike" Steel Scheiner's involvement in con- Scheiner, who has created 5.1- Jason "" Epperson, Andrew "Drew" Coleman. (Key West, FL.) Stephen Dent Gimel "Young Gum" Keaton John Kelton sumer hardware design reflects channel mixes of Queen's "A the sonic leap represented by for- Night at the Opera," Steely Dan's CONSOLE(S)/ Neve VR, SSL 4000 G, SSL4000 G +/ SSL 9000 J. SSL 4056 G, Vintage Neve 8068 SSL 9000 K DAW(S) Pm Tools Pro Tools Neve 8068 mats such as DVD -A, a consumer "Everything Must Go" and the Eagles' "Hotel California," to RECORDER(S) Pro Tools Otari MTR 90, Pro Tools Studer 800, Otari MX80, Pro Tools HD Pro Tools Pro Tools name just three. The is RECORDING Pm Tools Quantegy 499, Pro Tools BASF 900, Pm Tools Pro Tools HD Pro Tools car, he notes, an ideal MEDIUM environment for multichannel

MIX DOWN STUDIOIS) DADDY'S HOUSE SONY SOUND STATION SOUNDTRACK THE MD( SURE @OLYMPIC audio. (Location) New York) (New York) (Nashville, TN) (New York) (London) "We have a driver sitting in a Engineer(s) Paul Logus, P. Diddy SUITE E John Kelton Andy Wallace Mark "Spike" Stent (Atlanta, GA) sweet spot," he says, "and it's a Phil Tan fixed position, so we've tuned the system so the front [passen- CONSOLES)/DAW(S) SSL 4000 G SSL 9000 J /Pro Tools SSL 4056 G SSL G Series SSL G Series that gers] are pretty much hearing the Pro Tools Ampex ATR 100 Studer A820 Ampex ATR 100 RECORDER(S) Pro Tools way we want them to hear." MIX DOWN Pm Tools Pro Tools BASF 900 EMTEC SM900 Quardegy GP9 1Nvo Acura TLs will be exhibited MEDIUM at the 115th Audio Engineering MASTERING STERLING SOUND STERLING SOUND MASTERMIX BERNIE GRUNDMAN METROPOLIS Society Convention, set for Oct. (Location) (New York) (New York) (Nashville, TN) (Los Angeles) (London) Engineer Chris Athens Chris Athens Hank Williams Brian "Big Bass" Gardner Tim Young 10 -13 at the Javits Convention Center in New York. "Acura has CD /CASSETTE UMVD BMG BMG WEA WEA MANUFACTURER treated the interior acoustically," Scheiner adds, "so that it's pretty 2003, VNU Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Hot 100, R &B & Country appear each week; Mainstream Rock, Modern Rock, Rap, Adult Contemporary,Dance Club Play, and Dance SCHEINER: `PRETTY CLOSETO PERFECT' Sales rotate weekly. Please submit material for Production Credi s to Keith Caulfield,Telephone 323 -525 -2297, Fax 323 -525 -2394 or 323-525 -2395, kcaulfield @billboard.com. close to perfect."

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