Production and Reproduction of Program Material for a Variety of Spatial Audio Formats

Francombe J, Brookes T, Mason R, Flindt R, Coleman P, Liu Q, Jackson P. Production and Reproduction of Program Material for a Variety of Spatial Audio Formats. In: AES Convention 138. Audio Engineering Society; 2015. Paper 199. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17634

@inproceedings{Francombe2015_17634,
  author = {Francombe, Jon and Brookes, Tim and Mason, Russell and Flindt, Rupert and Coleman, Philip and Liu, Qingju and Jackson, Philip},
  title = {{Production and Reproduction of Program Material for a Variety of Spatial Audio Formats}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 138},
  note = {Paper 199},
  year = {2015},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17634}
}

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AB  - For subjective experimentation on 3D audio systems, suitable program material is needed. A large-scale recording session was performed in which four ensembles were recorded with a range of existing microphone techniques (aimed at mono, stereo, 5.0, 9.0, 22.0, ambisonic, and headphone reproduction) and a novel 48-channel circular microphone array. Further material was produced by remixing and augmenting pre-existing multichannel content. To mix and monitor the program items (that included classical, jazz, pop, and experimental music, and excerpts from a sports broadcast and a film soundtrack), a flexible 3D audio reproduction environment was created. Solutions to the following challenges were required: level calibration for different reproduction formats; bass management; and adaptable signal routing from different software and file formats.
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