To be honest with you Bob.... no. In fact if I really miss it that much then I could probably pretty much replicate it with some mixing and some low pass filters.

But this whole thing is very much like buying a tricycle and then riding it on 2 wheels... it's just not complete. I would much rather see if there is some way of rescuing the original track.

I assumed the track was just blank. You're saying there's something there? That seems a bit wierd.

Yup... the lfe track shows up... but it shows up blank. Sony is aware of the bug and they say it will be corrected in the next set of bug fixes, but until then.....

There does seem to be some confusion about that LFE channel. My understanding was that it's supposed to be what it says "Low Frequency Effects". So unless you're shooting car crashes or A bomb tests there shouldn't be anything in it, in fact as far as I'm aware those who record 5.1 on location ignore it.

BUT! Then again that's what I thought and lately the game does seem to have changed. The front two speakers were supposed to be full bandwidth with the sub simply for effects but many lower end systems use the sub to fill in the bottom end lacking from the cheap front speakers L&R speakers.

Maybe in these cameras they're doing the some kind of trick as it's impossible to build a mic that's directional at low frequencies so they have one mic for the LF stuff and that goes to the LFE channel. If that's the case you might indeed want it.

Bob.

Oh... I'm SURE it is a trick. These cams are not recording a LFE track... they're GENERATING it.

How a subwoofer system works is COMPLETELY up to you and how you set it up. The subwoofer channel is not like other channels in that each track is fed to each corresponding channel (ie: left front track to left front channel... right front track to right front channel.....). Low frequencies are cut off from ALL channels and routed to the subwoofer.... including the lfe track.... so you can get bass through the subwoofer even without a lfe channel.

As you say...the subwoofer is used mostly to keep the front and surround speakers small in size. But if you choose, you can have large full range front/surround/center speakers and go without a subwoofer. The sound will be the same (depending of course on the quality of your speakers). The lfe track simply will come through your full range speakers.

Is the LFE track needed? No. The other channels are quite capable of carrying the full range, and your system is quite capable of cutting off those low frequencies and sending to the appropriate place (depending if you have a subwoofer or full range speakers)...............

BUT...............the SR11 DOES in fact generate a LFE track........................ and I want it.............. because it's mine.............and I'm entitled to it! :)