Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero"; My 5.1 Surround Project
Update(3-17-13): While looking for a copy of my own 5.1 project, I found one by Erik Maceto that's actually finished. The 5.1 mixes are sweet and the design of the DVD is quite a bit better than I ever envisioned mine being. I got it from the thepiratebay but you can grab it here:
NIN - "Year Zero" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!y1xAECxa!W4zZBk8v4PUpkPEgYRSrzw
Update(3-19-13): It gets even better... it turns out Erik also did "The Slip" and "Ghosts I-IV" in 5.1 as well. I haven't been able to get the second part of "Ghosts" yet but there's these awesome links for now :)
NIN - "The Slip" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!e84V1KpC!GrttljrfAGkXLZc0KgGkqQ
NIN - "Ghosts I-II" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!XxgSlDCC!G7R2jR6aZnN5Sz-aFW7OcA
Update(7-12-13): Finally, NIN - "Ghosts III-IV" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo: https://mega.co.nz/#F!btAHyaYb!aJhdGBz1GokDfPzLQkZJyQ
Follow me at twitter.com/WayAtTheEnd and/or facebook.com/WayAtTheEnd for lots more Trent Reznor stuff :)
One example: I recently discovered this, and it's awesome: Peter Gabriel - Growing Up (Trent Reznor remix)
Original Post(modified): At first I was pretty disappointed that "Year Zero" was not released in 5.1 surround sound right away. Now I'm actually pretty glad, as it inspired me to work on a 5.1 version of the album myself, its been fun and a good learning experience. Back then I went through a long process of getting the Macintosh OS X installed on my PC so I could play around with the GarageBand files Trent provides on his site. I have since moved onto Ableton Live within windows which makes the process significantly faster.
I still have finishing touches to do on the ones I have released so far, but I think they are pretty good the way they are too. After my first couple songs I was listening to the official version of "The Downward Spiral" in 5.1 and realized I need to remove the drum beat from the rear speakers altogether for them to sound more official. Aside from fixing that with the first couple songs, theres only a few minor things I know I intend to change.
The individual songs are in Dolby Digital *.ac3 format, and with the right codec they will just play in windows media player through analog or spdif. Of course they wont help much unless you have at least 4.0 surround on your computer or unless you wanted to make a dvd-video yourself. If you are a fan of NIN and you're able to check them out, I don't think you would regret using the bandwidth.
NIN - "Year Zero" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!y1xAECxa!W4zZBk8v4PUpkPEgYRSrzw
Update(3-19-13): It gets even better... it turns out Erik also did "The Slip" and "Ghosts I-IV" in 5.1 as well. I haven't been able to get the second part of "Ghosts" yet but there's these awesome links for now :)
NIN - "The Slip" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!e84V1KpC!GrttljrfAGkXLZc0KgGkqQ
NIN - "Ghosts I-II" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo
https://mega.co.nz/#F!XxgSlDCC!G7R2jR6aZnN5Sz-aFW7OcA
Update(7-12-13): Finally, NIN - "Ghosts III-IV" 5.1 Surround DVD mixed by Erik Macedo: https://mega.co.nz/#F!btAHyaYb!aJhdGBz1GokDfPzLQkZJyQ
Follow me at twitter.com/WayAtTheEnd and/or facebook.com/WayAtTheEnd for lots more Trent Reznor stuff :)
One example: I recently discovered this, and it's awesome: Peter Gabriel - Growing Up (Trent Reznor remix)
Original Post(modified): At first I was pretty disappointed that "Year Zero" was not released in 5.1 surround sound right away. Now I'm actually pretty glad, as it inspired me to work on a 5.1 version of the album myself, its been fun and a good learning experience. Back then I went through a long process of getting the Macintosh OS X installed on my PC so I could play around with the GarageBand files Trent provides on his site. I have since moved onto Ableton Live within windows which makes the process significantly faster.
I still have finishing touches to do on the ones I have released so far, but I think they are pretty good the way they are too. After my first couple songs I was listening to the official version of "The Downward Spiral" in 5.1 and realized I need to remove the drum beat from the rear speakers altogether for them to sound more official. Aside from fixing that with the first couple songs, theres only a few minor things I know I intend to change.
The individual songs are in Dolby Digital *.ac3 format, and with the right codec they will just play in windows media player through analog or spdif. Of course they wont help much unless you have at least 4.0 surround on your computer or unless you wanted to make a dvd-video yourself. If you are a fan of NIN and you're able to check them out, I don't think you would regret using the bandwidth.
Update(11-26-07): Long overdue beta2 of my DVD released, grab it from megaupload. Features the correct version of "Vessel" that was previously available in a patch for beta1, a much better version of "The Beginning of The End," and previously unreleased "God Given." Total of 7 tracks. I will have the pre-formatted Ableton Live versions of the remaining 9 tracks and looking forward to working on those :)
Update(11-20-09): I guess I lied about getting the rest done real soon, and I no longer have a shit-load of free time, but I am still hoping to have it all done eventually.
Update(3-15-13): Of course these links went extinct when Kim Dotcom got into that legal trouble, now I don't have a copy of it myself. If/when I finally find it, I'll make it available again.
Update(11-20-09): I guess I lied about getting the rest done real soon, and I no longer have a shit-load of free time, but I am still hoping to have it all done eventually.
Update(3-15-13): Of course these links went extinct when Kim Dotcom got into that legal trouble, now I don't have a copy of it myself. If/when I finally find it, I'll make it available again.
Here's the latest version of each individual *.ac3 file:
Capital G:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VR24NTA8
Me I'm Not:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=19EKAIQO
Survivalism:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4SA0F306
My Violent Heart:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7EHTQ70J
Vessel:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E9Q16L32
Capital G:
Me I'm Not:
Survivalism:
My Violent Heart:
Vessel:
Meet Your Master: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AS59CMG8
