New Products
Chameleon Surround Immersive Reverb Plug-In Debuts
The latest iteration of Accentize’s Chameleon reverb solution, Chameleon Surround, is designed for immersive formats from 5.1 to 9.1.6.
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Music Production
Rob Kinelski Unveils New Immersive Room
Rob Kinelski, known for his mixes for Billie Eilish, Karol G and others, has launched a new home studio outfitted with an Amphion 7.1.4...
Blog
Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The Atmos Trilogy, Book Three
Let's peek into the future—where’s Atmos going? Will it take over the world, or will it fizzle like previous efforts to market surround?
Live Sound
The Sound of U2’s Vegas Show: A Spherical Miracle?
Mix was inside Las Vegas’ new $2.6B venue, Sphere, for opening weekend of U2’s groundbreaking residency.
New Products
IK Multimedia Launches iLoud MTM Immersive Speaker Mounts
IK Multimedia has shipped its new iLoud MTM Wall/Ceiling Mounting Brackets for use in professional monitoring environments for immersive audio.
New Products
Sennheiser Prototype AMBEO Immersive Renderer for Live Events Revealed
Sennheiser Pro Labs unveiled a working prototype of its AMBEO 2-Channel Spatial Audio live renderer at NAB 2023.
Facilities
Recording Jane Ira Bloom’s ‘Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1’
For the veteran jazz artist’s newest, Grammy-nominated immersive album, pandemic challenges meant improvising in more ways than one.
Business
d&b Group Launches Immersive Business Unit
d&b audiotechnik has launched a new, far-reaching Immersive Business division, which will be led by industry veteran Al McKinna.
Blog
Mix’s Top 20 Articles of 2022, Part 3
As 2022 comes to a close, we’re counting down our most popular articles of the year, as chosen by the readers of Mix!
Business
CES 2023 to Feature WiFi Streaming Auro-3D Demo
Immersive audio platform Artist Connection will stream Auro-3D via WiFi for the first time ever at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Facilities
Sydney’s Forbes Street Studios Adds Dolby Atmos Mixing
Forbes Street Studios in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo has created an immersive mixing environment in its main studio with a 9.1.4 Genelec Smart Active Monitoring system.
Facilities
Instrumentoz Promotes Affordable Immersive Music
Miami-based creation facility Instrumentoz has created a new Dolby Atmos mix room outfitted with KRK Rokit monitors.
Facilities
Master Mix Live Upgrades for Immersive Productions
Studio and live sound engineer Rick Camp has upgraded his Master Mix Live facility in Las Vegas with an SSL System T S300-48 console.
Live Gear
L-Acoustics L-ISA Studio 2.4 – A Real-World Review, Part 1
Veteran live sound pro Steve La Cerra dives into L-Acoustics' L-ISA Studio 2.4 software to create an immersive sound experience.
Facilities
Stockholm’s Atlantis Studios Adds Immersive Mix Room
Transformation from 5.1 into Dolby-certified 7.1.4 Genelec system revealed depth, presence and positioning of sounds that had never been heard before.
Facilities
RAK Studios Revamps Room for Immersive Sound
London’s RAK Studios has completed a top-to-bottom rebuild of its Studio 4.
Music Production
Intimate Jazz Trio Blown Up for Atmos
Karma Auger and Erich Gobel of Studio1LA, recently visited United Recording to track Peter Smith’s jazz piano trio for Dolby Atmos and stereo release....
Music Production
Metropolis Studio’s Paul Norris Shares Immersive Mixing Insights
Audio engineer Paul Norris has been using Nugen Audio’s Halo Upmix, Focus and Paragon plug-ins for various Immersive Audio efforts.
New Products
Sonarworks SoundID Reference for Multichannel Debuts
Sonarworks has unveiled SoundID Reference for Multichannel — software for measuring and setting up multichannel mix spaces.
Music Production
Luis Barrera Jr. Moves Into Dolby Atmos
Mix engineer/producer Luis Barrera Jr. is outfitting his Miami studio for Dolby Atmos music.
Post and Broadcast
Monitoring ‘The Witcher,’ ‘Shadow and Bone’ and More
High-profile composer Joseph Trapanese recently updated his studio facility to a Dolby Atmos-capable 7.1.4 system of JBL Pro speakers.
Business
Grammy Engineering and Production Award Winners Announced
The Recording Academy announced the winners of the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, including those categories honoring recording and mastering engineers, mixers, remixers and record...
New Products
L-Acoustics L-ISA Studio 2.4 Adds Free Binaural Output
L-Acoustics has expanded its L-ISA Studio software suite for designing immersive audio, adding unlimited free binaural output capability.
Live Gear
DiGiCo, d&b Beat Latency for 5G Festival’s Remote Music Performance
More than 20 musicians were able to perform together remotely via DiGiCo and d&b Soundscape equipment during the 5G Festival.
Recording
Giles Martin on Remixing The Beatles in Spatial Audio, Part Two
Giles Martin discusses his Spatial Audio mixing philosophy, the hardest Beatles tracks to remix, and getting the stamp of approval from Paul McCartney himself.
Music Production
Giles Martin on Remixing The Beatles in Spatial Audio, Part One
Giles Martin offers insight into the process of remixing the Beatles' number-ones in Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos for Apple.
Live Sound
Bon Iver Puts L-ISA Processor II to the Test with 7.1 Immersive Concert
A pair of Bon Iver concerts in Los Angeles marked the first official deployment anywhere of L-Acoustics’ 3D audio processing engine, the L-ISA Processor...
Music Production
Jeff Balding Goes All-In on Immersive Genelec System
Grammy-nominated producer/engineer Jeff Balding has installed an all-Genelec 9.1.4 Dolby Atmos immersive-sound system in his studio.
New Products
Genelec Aural ID Plug-In for Headphone Monitoring Debuts
Genelec has released an Aural ID plug-in, allowing users to create a customized HRTF to aid headphone monitoring.
Recording
Apple Goes Spatial – Part 3: The Artist And The Engineer
Dolby Atmos, Binaural, Stereo, M1 Silicon, Lossless, Hi-Res, New Logic, AirPods — What It All Means for the Artist and the Engineer
Live Sound
Mixhalo Raises $24 Million; Investors Include L-Acoustics
Mixhalo, a startup founded that aims to provide wireless IEM-style immersive mixes to concert audiences, has raised $24 million in funding.
Blog
It’s Good to Have Apple Back
Mix's Tom Kenny looks back at how Apple has always provided consumers with irresistible audio and pros with the tools to create it.
Recording
Immersion Networks Hires Ellis Sorkin
Immersive sound product developer Immersion Networks has hired industry veteran Ellis Sorkin.
Facilities
Dweezil Zappa Unveils His Immersive Hikari Studios
Dweezil Zappa’s new Hikari Studios, built from the ground up in Los Angeles, is equipped with a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos monitoring system.
Facilities
Seagrass Studio Grows
Los Angeles-based producer Brad Wood’s Seagrass Studio is now fully-equipped to tackle Dolby Atmos immersive work.
New Products
KLANG:konductor In-Ear Mixing Processor Launched
KLANG has introduced its latest immersive in-ear mixing processor, the KLANG:konductor.
New Products
DPA, Klang Collaborate On In-Ear Presets
KLANG’s Immersive Mixing Processor will integrate dedicated presets for DPA Microphones’ 5100 Mobile Surround Microphone.
Technology
Innovations: L-Acoustics L-ISA Studio Immersive Audio Software
Guillaume Le Nost, executive director of Creative Technologies at L-Acoustics, recounts the creation of L-ISA Studio Immersive Audio Software.
Profiles
Mix Cover Story: Dave Way is Digging Atmos Music
Legendary Grammy-winning engineer/producer Dave Way embraces the creative possibilities of “space” and performance with the adoption of Dolby Atmos Music mixing in his Waystation...
Live Gear
PRG Brings L-ISA to XR Aircraft Reveal
When aerospace company Archer unveiled its all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, Maker, PRG handed the immersive experience, using L-Acoustics' L-ISA technology for the...
Facilities
Sonosphere Opens Immersive “Hub Studio”
Immersive content production company Sonosphere has built a “hub studio” that accommodates all surround sound formats, up to 11.1.8 Dolby Atmos.
Facilities
Herbert Waltl Outfits with Neumann Immersive Speakers
During the pandemic, Herbert Waltl set up an immersive mixing facility based around Neumann KH Line studio monitors.