Tag: audio
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Out of Office Christmas Special
A rundown on my questionable Crimbo mixing set up So the Christmas season has officially began and I’m visiting my Mum. What does this mean? For one I’m not paying for food or heating which is great considering the current cost of living crisis. The less exciting news is most of my equipment is still…
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Netflix Surround Sound on Headphones
How to get 5.1 in your cans this Christmas Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a hefty 7.1.4 sound system to watch all our films on. Full immersive sound every time we switched on Netflix on our laptop. If wherever we were watching, be it our living room, our bedroom or on the…
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Building Binaural Worlds
A look at some of the spatial tools available today For some time now I’ve been experimenting with different binaural mixing tools in a variety of formats. Luckily in 2022 there’s a breadth of tools out there (many free of charge) that not only make binaural mixing possible but also make getting to grips with…
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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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Seeing Sound
How AI is the new ears of the deaf, robots and… …space? See Sound is a new “home hearing system” developed to assist people by hearing increases in volume in their homes and notifying its users of the disturbance. It does this using a massive library of sounds to work out a best match and…
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Art-ificial Garfunkel
Will collaboration with AI replace the talentless side-kick? Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t need other people? If we could come up with a great idea for a song and didn’t have to share the credit with our mate Kev just because he “wrote all the music”? Fortunately the days of having to rely…
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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…