AES Show 2024 NY

3D audio productions can be realized in different ways: in acoustic rooms with hand-played instruments or in the box, where the sound is only created during production. What they have in common are the psychoacoustic rules that apply to all audio productions. The artistic work goes hand in hand with the psychoacoustic layer, crucial for immersive productions' perceived result: content resolution, transparency, and auditory connection/separation.
A high content resolution can be achieved with many individual sounds and useful tools such as reverb plug-ins. In the first part of the workshop, Lasse Nipkow presents a strategy for achieving a high resolution in 3D audio with mobile recordings and various sound bodies, thus creating mixes.
On the playback side, we now have a dozen or more loudspeakers. Therefore, the tools we need for mixing must overcome new challenges that do not exist in stereo. In the second part of the contribution, Grammy-nominated sound engineer Ronald Prent and Lasse Nipkow present outstanding plug-ins explicitly developed for 3D audio in recent years. Using impressive sound examples from various genres, they show how they use these tools effectively for their mixes.
This second contribution is related to a first, previous contribution by Lasse Nipkow and Konrad Strauss: ‘Psychoacoustics for Immersive Productions’.