Yep... I'm having trouble getting this track to encode well. This track is setup with a siren sound that tracks left, center, right constantly. Additionally the lead singer's voice begins far left moves to center, then right and back to center again. Meanwhile there is a guitar hard right.

So far all the attempts I've made have produced poor results. Those seperate typically into one of two results. In the first there is an almost total loss of stereo seperation. Not much difference from mono. In the second, there appears to be good stereo seperation but, in the case of the vocal it goes strong left, and as it moves to center it fades to inaudibility and at some point as it moves to left it returns to full volume.

I've been using Grip (cdparanoia, lame) on a linux laptop with a variaty of options.

I'm hoping someone here has figured out how to get a good result for this song.

Glenn