Tag: Technology
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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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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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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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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…