Tag: binaural
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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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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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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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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…