![]() ![]() So this is then the first answer:Īnswer 1: Mix on 7.1.4 and only use Headphones to check your mix. They provide some guidelines on how to set up a studio, and for the actual mixing in Dolby Atmos, they have the following recommendation: Mix with a discrete speaker layout of at least 7.1.4 while checking the binaural headphone mix during mixing. Dolby's requirements are now more like suggestions because they are not enforced. Dolby even ended the studio certification program in late 2020, so technically, you can mix in Dolby Atmos in any self-proclaimed Dolby Atmos studio. The requirements for mixing in Dolby Atmos are less restrictive when mixing for music than for film. The problem is, while a lot of bands from Nine Inch Nails, to The Beatles, to Philip Glass, a copious amount of prog rock bands, Talking Heads, and more (including a surprising number of releases from the small indie ambient label "Fax +49-69/450464"), next to none of these are really readily available to the surround curious.1 - Requirements From Dolby For Mixing Dolby Atmos Even without a "proper" surround sound set up (see note above), these recordings transcend their stereo originals. ![]() So if you go and find some surround sound albums, a format that was largely birthed alongside the DVD and the short lived SACD format (an incomplete list of DVD/SACD/and Blu Ray titles can be found on the surround sound enthusiast site QuadraphonicQuad, however, most of these titles are out of print and relatively hard to find.) However, if you track a few of these down, like the recent Steven Wilson 5.1 remix of Tangerine Dream's Ricochet, it's absolutely unreal. ![]() All these solutions take a 5/7.1 signal and mix it down to a binaural stereo mix. Right now, it seems like every tech company is investing in "spatial" audio, with Microsoft commissioning Dolby and DTS to make special mixdown software for Xbox and Windows (and making their own free alternative), Apple with the spatial audio with headtracking of their Airpod Pro and Max headphones, Sony with Tempest, etc. There's a trend on youtube for "5D" and "8D" audio which is people messing with stereo mixes of popular songs, panning them wildly around in a 3D environment, and then mixing down to binaural, but it's just not the same. ![]() But outside that, a handful of classical recordings, and a demo CD for the legendary Stax headphones. Experimental German rock group Can recorded two albums with a dummy head, the best track that utilizes it is " I Want More", Lou Reed played with it on " Street Hassle", and there's this whole acoustic guitar album recorded with it. Other great examples are this Verge video walking around NYC while also detailing the history of this recording.įor about five minutes, binaural was an interesting, experimental way to record music. Perhaps the most famous example is the " Virtual Barbershop", a video that's been on YouTube basically since the start. It feels like you're in the room with the musicians. When a listener uses headphones (preferably open back), the depth that a binaural recording gives is outrageous. What sets this apart from a standard stereo recording is the specifics of the shape and distance of the microphones allow for better depth perception of the sound. A binaural recording is a stereo recording using a special microphone that has one microphone per "ear", placed about ear distance apart, and often inside a molded ear. ![]()
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