All Audio articles – Page 2
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Industry Trends
Dolby AC-4 vs MPEG-H 3D Audio: Next-Generation Audio Codecs
While the two frontrunners in the NGA codec stakes are similar in many ways, a comparison of their background and frame of reference gives some interesting insights, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.
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Dolby Atmos in Broadcasting - Turning it up to 11
Dolby Atmos is a Next Generation Audio (NGA) technology that’s gaining considerable ground, especially in music, eSports and sports. John Maxwell Hobbs speaks to Anaïs Libolt, Director of Broadcast & Content in Europe for Dolby to get a snapshot of progress.
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News
Disney+ to offer IMAX Signature Sound By DTS
Disney+ is adding high fidelity audio via IMAX signature sound by DTS to a selection of Marvel films and other titles in 2023.
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Accelerator - 6DOF audio-led narrative and music experiences in the Metaverse
IBC2022: The second of our eight IBC Accelerator showcase sessions reveals POC learnings around how immersive and interactive audio content, particularly 6DOF (six degrees of freedom) impacts content creation and delivery to broadcasters and fans, both experientially and in the metaverse.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“It’s going to feel odd if Wakanda sounds like rain on a tin roof” Adrian Pennington reports on the challenges and successes of location sound recording the Marvel sequel.
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Dolby Atmos: Producing with object-based audio
In a previous article (Object-based audio – immersive experiences and personalisation) we explored the possibilities that working with object-based audio affords in the areas of immersive experiences and personalisation.
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Object-based audio – immersive experiences and personalisation
Object-based audio production has begun to get the attention of consumers over the past year with Dolby Atmos technology incorporated into headphones, speakers, and soundbars from a variety of vendors. Both Apple, Amazon, and Tidal also offer special Atmos-encoded spatial audio streams.
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Daily News
AI takes Dialog to the Cleaners
Lynx Technik’s new yellobrik Instant Dialog Cleaner (IDC 1411) uses artificial intelligence from Audionamix to help isolate speech and dialogue by removing complex background noise, improving speech quality in real time.
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IBC Accelerators 2022 (Part 3): Innovation everywhere
The IBC 2022 Accelerator programme aims to support the media & entertainment industry to solve some of the biggest challenges in the market today, and this final cluster of projects is taking on some of the most diverse and complex of the lot.
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Daily News
Cobalt introduces new Gear for ST2110, SafeLinks and Dante
Cobalt Digital’s new Indigo 2110-DC-01 offers support for high density native 4K ST 2110 audio and video processing using openGear. Cobalt has also released its SafeLink Gateway as a virtual machine, and a higher density version of +MPx-Dante-64x64, the industry’s first license-based quad-channel 3G-SDI bridge to Ethernet-based Dante audio.
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Daily News
Razor-sharp stereo imaging on show
On show from Neumann is the KH 150, a biamplified, DSP-controlled loudspeaker that features the same high-resolution tweeter as all Neumann studio monitors, and a newly developed 6.5in woofer with ultra-low distortion and high SPL capability.
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Daily News
Nugen Paragon plug-in receives boost
The Paragon convolution reverb plug-in is being showcased in Hall 7 with fresh updates, including a mono/stereo-only version.
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Daily News
Making the switch to IP-based intercom
First-time exhibitor Altair has introduced a completely new IP-based intercom system. The Spanish broadcast audio manufacturer has a long history in the intercom industry and has gradually moved into the broadcast sector.
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Daily News
Nixer to launch RL256 Series for AoIP monitoring
With four base models in the range, the RL256 Series from Nixer Pro Audio offers AoIP confidence monitoring for broadcasters working with Dante and Ravenna audio networks. Launching at IBC2022, the 1U 19in rack mount AoIP monitoring tool and mixer is suited for the audio racks of the latest IP-based ...
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Industry Trends
Managing remote audio: post-pandemic workflows evolve to deliver greater flexibility
The surge in ‘at home’ or REMI production during the pandemic has raised the stakes for managing remote audio effectively – prompting leading vendors to expand their solutions and focus more on ‘granularity’.
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Industry Trends
Immersive audio: consumer tech catches up with production potential
With consumers able to experience immersive audio more easily and cost-effectively than ever, demand for immersive content is continuing to accelerate writes David Davies.
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IBC Digital 2021: Advances in Audio - Using some remarkable signal processing
Every broadcaster knows that the most common complaint from viewers is that programme dialog is hard to discern against a background of atmospheric sounds, mood music and competing voices. It is especially a problem of age, where 90% of people over 60 years old, report problems.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: Immersive Audio and Sound Imagery
2020 was a year none of us could have imagined, without live music, we had missed all the live experiences, and those who perform had missed that live connection of an audience in person even more.