Category: Recording
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Patching with Bae
Producing the first episode of a brand new podcast Over the last month me and Matt Pennington have been hard at work doing our research on the history of and ins and outs of working in Dolby Atmos for the first episode of our new podcast “Patch Baes”. If you’ve been following my blog over…
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Personalised HRTFs
Binaural rendering designed with your melon in mind One of the major issues that has plagued binaural audio since day one is the fact that we’ve all got completely different sized heads. Binaural processing and recording works by imitating what are known as HRTFs (Head Related Transfer Functions). Simply put HRTFs are the way we…
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Recording Ambisonics In Thor’s Cave
Going in search of spooky 3D ambiences in the Peak District As the sun fell over Manifold Valley in the south of the Peak District last Friday me and my trusty yellow van began our trundling ascent into a dense bank of fog. Somewhere deep in these clouds was our destination, the hillside town of…
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Spaced Out
Recording immersive audio with spaced microphone arrays There are some pretty convenient and lightweight options on the market for recording immersive audio these days. Neatly packed tetrahedral ambisonics mics with 4, 9 or 16 channels can give you pretty amazing 360 sound and some like the Zoom H3 VR won’t even break the bank. Does…
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3 Weird Recording Techniques That You Will Probably Never Need To Use… …Probably
We’ve all been there. We’ve tried every mic placement and DI combo under the sun and although the guitar tone is rich and crisp it just doesn’t have that indescribable “It” factor. Every technical trick and tip on how best to place our mics has failed us. It is in moments like this we need…