5.1 surround music by DEWALD: 2025 Sea Of Silence

Sea Of Silence by DEWALD 2025
exclusive on YouTube the original 5.1 recording

composed and produced in 5.1 surround in 2025

Sea Of Silence is made to give a highly immersive and psychedelic experience to the audience. Hypnotic beats and sequencing will swirl around you and will lead you to another level of consciousness, classic electronic music made in best german berlin school tradition.

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This video contains both the original 5.1 soundtrack AND stereo downmix made automatially by YT.
If you want to enjoy this video with the original stereo downmix please use this link

   • DEWALD: 2025 Sea Of Silence STEREO  

For 5.1 Surround Sound you have to use the YT Smart TV app !
It depends on the settings in your YouTube-app and your audio-setup whether you can enjoy this video in stereo or surround.
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For some Tech Talk See below and let me know your opinion !
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german berlin school electronic music

composed, arranged and performed by DEWALD 2025
DEWALD: Roland, Moog, Oberheim, PPG
recorded at Saturn 5 Studio
mastered by Überschall

Sea Of Silence is berlin school music in one go and can be divided in following parts

00:00 Fog Of Silence
05:49 Doors Of Silence
09:59 Sea Of Silence
12:35 Rain Of Silence
15:24 Nothing Is Louder Than Silence

Lyrics:

Speak to me
Don't let me drown
In a sea of silence

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Tech Talk

Until the end of 2024, YouTube accepted uploads with two tracks in the best PCM quality. This made it possible to provide you with both the original 5.1 surround sound recording and the original stereo downmix in one video.

Since the beginning of 2025, YouTube has only accepted one track in stereo or 5.1 surround sound in a video upload. YouTube automatically creates the downmix with the parameters 0 dB for the front channels, -3 dB for the center channel, and -6 dB for the rear channels. This is an extremely poor process, so I decided to offer you this video twice: once with the original 5.1 surround sound and once with the original stereo downmix.

terms of quality

Until the end of 2024, it was possible to upload both tracks (stereo / 5.1) in the best PCM quality. Regardless of the source material, YouTube encoded the stereo track with OPUS at 128 kbps and 5.1 surround with EC3 at 256 kbps.

The process for stereo has remained the same.

For 5.1 surround sound, since the beginning of 2025, YouTube has only accepted uploads in ACC at 512 kbps, which is extremely lossy compared to PCM at 48 kHz/16 bits, and then encodes this signal with EC3 at 256 kbps.

This means the audio material is encoded twice

I hope you can still enjoy the music – whether in stereo or 5.1 surround sound !

Playback of 5.1 surround sound is still only possible with the YouTube smart TV app.
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