UW08
Press RECORD
Monitoring
Immersive Audio
Open Discussion
– When you and your ears “know enough” to make the call … spend your $$$ or wise-choices power here ($3k guitar or killer speakers)
Symmetry in studio design
placement
desk or hanging?
LEDE studio design (a possible approach … meaning reducing reflections behind the speakers)
speaker spacing
speaker (desktop) isolation
active vs passive
Rule #2 (it seem that there actually is a rule) = KNOW THY SPEAKERS OR HEADPHONES
All hell is breaking loose with me right now regarding monitoring
Monolyth M1060 planar headphones
Bose Sounklink
JBL Series3 mk2
Elliot and Mick Guzowski
American vs. British speaker design
Alt speaker sets (2nd pair, portable “Bose”, earbuds, laptop … yes, laptop speakers)
desert island albums: take copies of your fave songs/albums with you to listen over outside studio monitors. It will help you get your footing.
listening from outside the room ... around the door
This is a great way to get a foothold on the best vocal level
speaker level calibration (very important)
tone generator in DAW or recorded tracks (generate pink noise)
SPL meter (preferable) or SPL meter on phone
Balance levels on the speakers or amp controls
SURROUND and EMMERSIVE
– why immersive? ... (I don't need to, I'll never need it)
▪ it’s fun
▪ it teaches you a lot about production
▪ If you’re wanting to get into any of these … you’ll have to.
film
TV
gaming
VR
Binaural (mrt9 p 69)
inter-aural intensity differences
inter-aural arrive-time differences
effects of the pinnae (outer ears)
My experiences in Berin in the 1980's ...
Ambisonics
Uses complex math to create a binaural mix
Certain DAWs (Nuendo and Reaper) are able to encode, mix and playback in these formats
1st order (4tks), 2nd order (8 tks) and 3rd order (16 tks) ... each with increased resolution
Discrete Speaker Setup
5.1
what is the .1?
Earthquake
-10db on encode & +10db on decode (playback) ... this was because of early optical audio track systems
LFE vs SUB
SUB setup
System setup
5.1.4 (what does that mean?)
DMH's new workflow
stereo mix
5.1.4 mix (with height rules that allow the height channels to be summed into 5.1 using a special Auro codec)
Dolby ATMOS
object oriented (explain)
scalable (explain)
Uses object oriented metadata to create a binaural mix
Certain DAWs (Nuendo, PT, Logic and Reaper) are able to encode, mix and playback in these formats
The Problems and/or misconceptions
requires hardware (at this point) decoding to playback Atmos
Pretty much requires a new audio system
Atmos over streaming services (particularly music streaming) isn't Atmos at all, but is a binaural rendering of an Atmos mix (maybe)
The buzz word in and of itself is causing lots of confusion ... and Dolby seems to be feeding on this
Delivery formats
streaming
bluray
Atmos rendering to binaural (again, full of confusion)