From the course: Producing Spatial Audio in Dolby Atmos, Binaural, and Surround

Creative applications for immersive mixing

From the course: Producing Spatial Audio in Dolby Atmos, Binaural, and Surround

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Creative applications for immersive mixing

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- [Nate] Dolby Atmos is an exciting format for mixing for several reasons. For one, Atmos technology expands the way we perceive sound. In addition, you don't need an array of calibrated speakers to get started. Using binaural monitoring, you can use a regular pair of headphones and hear sounds in your mix as if they're coming from directly above or behind you. This obviously lends itself well to mixing for film and television, but Atmos mixing has so many creative applications for music too. For example, if you're mixing a live recording of a concert, maybe you want to mix sounds like you're directly in front of the stage with a roaring crowd coming from behind you, or maybe you want to do something more unconventional like have vocal harmonies in a big chorus sound like they're floating over your head. In particular, music that's more electronic or synthesizer-based lends itself especially well for Atmos because you can create hyper-real sonic environments to make the listener feel like they're floating with sound coming from all directions. And beyond the recording studio, Dolby Atmos can be utilized for live performances to bring a whole new world of sonic capabilities to your next live show. In this course, we're going to cover the basics for working with Dolby Atmos so you can understand object-based mixing, understand binaural monitoring, understand how to use the 3D pattern and mix objects, learn how to easily convert existing mix sessions from stereo to Atmos and Logic, understand how to optimize and configure settings in the event that you're mixing on a system with multiple speakers, understand how to render your mixes in the Dolby Atmos file format, and finally, we'll go over some tips for using Atmos in a live performance setting. My name's Nate Mars. I'm a producer and sound designer. And if you're ready, let's dive into this course. (upbeat music)

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