Imagine that you just finished designing and are now managing your dream immersive audio mix room for a client with an array of 64 speakers and it functions beautifully - then CoVid19 wreaks global havoc. You find yourself suddenly isolated in a new country, forced into retirement with its budgetary restrictions, and your dream studio has become an early victim to the pandemic. What would be your next move?
In this real-life story, follow the adventures of an intrepid audio engineer and his quest to build a personal version of that immersive studio that was lost – all within a fixed-income retiree’s budget.
In this tutorial, an immersive studio design and construction will be described including:
Inspiration from prior work by the author and colleagues Room design goals Equipment choices Custom electronics design Speaker design considerations Speaker support and position alignment Construction steps VBAP, Ambisonics, and WFS approaches Test mixes
