For the first time in India, the songs of Sri Surya Movies' Boys were released on the DTS Surround 5.1 Channel home audio format. This means that music fans can enjoy the phenomenal impact of A.R. Rahman's music in DTS digital surround sound on their home theater systems.
DTS is recognized around the world for producing digital multi-channel audio for films. The same surround experience is now available for the first time on Digital Compact Disc, creating a unique opportunity to experience a truly state of the art multi-track master recording. Each Digital Disc is encoded with 6-channels of surround sound audio. The result is a new level of sound realism that changes the way we listen to music at home.
All the DTS encoded songs of Boys have been mixed and mastered to be compatible with the 5.1 speaker configuration designed for home theatre systems. In the beginning, there was mono, then there was stereo (2 channels) and now there is 5.1 (6 channels), which is the experience of 360-degree surround sound right in the living room.
The technology has reached the stage that every listener who listens to this product will derive the same pleasure and euphoria that the music director and the audio engineer experienced while creating the product.
DTS, Digital Surround Sound is a 6 track digital sound format that makes it possible for the loudest and softest sounds to be heard with equal clarity. Apart from the left, center, right, left surround and right surround, the DTS system also has a sub woofer. In other analog sound formats the small or detailing sounds are lost as they are on the same channels as the louder sounds. For example, in a musical composition that is heavy on drums and percussions on one side and full-bodied vocals on the other, the soft melody of the flute will still be crystal clear.
The songs of Boys were recorded and mixed at Panchathan Recording Inn by H. Sridhar and S Sivakumar and the DTS digital surround sound audio was encoded and mastered by Real Image Media Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
The man behind the 5.1 audio mix is H. Sridhar, the multiple award-winning senior Audio Engineer at Media Artists who has over 15-years of experience and over 200 films to his credit. The credit for the technical support for the mastering of the Boys Digital Disc goes to H.Sridhar and K.M. Suryanarayanan, senior Technical Manager, Media Artists, and an award-winning audio engineer in his own right with over 14-years of technical experience.