5.1 surround music by DEWALD: 2025 The Fog

The Fog by DEWALD 2025
eclusive on YouTube the original 5.1 surround recording

composed and produced in 5.1 surround in 2025

The Fog 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 The Fog 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

Based ob the poem "Im Nebel" by
Herrman Hesse

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

The Fog is berlin school music in one go and can be divided in following parts

00:00 Fog in the morning
09:45 Strange - Walking in the Fog
13:24 The Moon

Lyrics:

Strange - walking in the fog
Lonely every tree and stone
No tree sees no other in the smog
Everyone is all alone

The World full of friends was calling
When my life was light and clear
Now while the fog is falling
No one is near

No one is truly wise
Who doesn't know the dark sides
That inescapable quietely rise
Be divided from the lights

Strange - walking in the fog
Life means on its own
Know no other in the smog
Everyone is all alone

Strange - walking in the fog
No one is near
Strange - walking in the fog
No one is near

No one is near

Moon you pale divine
Black is your home
Silence in your shine
You glow alone

Moon you cold divine
Your light is not your own
Reflection of past time
You are just a stone

Moon you old divine
Pale as bone
Your distant sign
You glow alone


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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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