This is a podcast I am publishing about how we experience sound. Using the YouTube spatial audio engine we explore Sports, travel, construction soundfields both recorded with microphones and synthetically created, and because I’m in Canada, lots of winter sounds. We are nearly one year into this sporadic but interesting...
Here is a playlist of some ambisonic mixes uploaded to YouTube using the new spatial audio feature implemented for panoramic videos. The visuals are very basic as they are only to serve as a reference to the audio. Spatial audio in YouTube currently only works in the YouTube app on...
In this article I would like to explain more why I have attempted to build an a panoramic audio player in html5 and how I am hoping such ideas can be used. The panoramic audio technique used in my player has been around since the early 1970’s. I believe html5 along with...
I use an audio program called Reaper and in the past two years or so there has been an ongoing discussion on how to make the program’s automation system more suitable for audio post-production. In this post I’m going to lay out an idea I had resulting from these discussions. I...
This is a continuation on some of the ideas expressed in my previous post Standing Up To Our Ears Working with audio involves a randomness that can rightly be attributed to creativity. Professional audio gets confusing because this randomness becomes involved in the evaluation of the tools (as discussed in...
Of all my five senses, the one I trust the least is my hearing. My ears give me some fantastically useful and entertaining information yet all the while they sneak little falsehoods and bias into my mind. It’s like they say “The Brooklyn Bridge is 486.3 meters long, it spans...
Stereo sound has been with us for more than 50 years now. It’s elicited a good number of “cool”s over the years as listeners have amazed at what simple level differences between two speakers can do. Here’s a newer version of stereo that has me a bit enthralled. It’s called...