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The impact of remote music collaboration software on music production in the time of Covid-19
Collaborative software platforms enabling interaction between global communities of recording artists and music producers have grown exponentially in the last decade and have undergone further changes during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
On Monday 15th February, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our regular bi-monthly meeting in the form of a Zoom Meeting. There was a strong attendance of more than 25 members and visitors.
Chair Graeme Huon introduced Charlie Van Dongen of Involve Audio to give us a presentation on his company’s work on modern surround audio encoding and decoding and speaker design.
Charlie started by recounting his early experiences with surround, starting with the Dynaco decoder, and the quad systems that followed in the ‘70s. He suggested that the reason for the formats’ failure in that era was the market confusion created by the number of competing systems. Moving to the present day, he commented that despite the current crop of surround systems, the predominant format is still stereo, given the number of portable and personal media playback devices. He cited a market survey by one 5.1 system vendor in the ‘90s that indicated that 60% of their systems were incorrectly set up to provide a stereo-only experience, with rear speakers either not connected or wrongly placed adjacent to the front speakers.
Charlie Van Dongen presenting to AES Melbourne Section – Screenshot by Rod Staples.
The next online meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be on Monday 15th February 2021 at 7:30pm. Bookings are required for distribution of the Zoom meeting details. Book using the form below
Charlie van Dongen of Involve Audio will present on the topic:
From loudspeakers to listeners
– the complete surround sound chain
The end to end surround sound reproduction chain has always had difficulties with loudspeaker placement and aiming, listener sweet spot restrictions, the effectiveness of listener envelopment and with listener immersion. Attempts to improve the listener experience have resulted in new recording and playback formats that have offered some degree of improvement but were often incompatible with existing equipment.
A previously unpublished video of Neville Thiele discussing his work has now been published on our YouTube channel, as well as on his Audio Legends page on this website.
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