What is Virtual Surround? - Spatial Audio Explained 

About the airpods pro, seems like a good idea even if I don't think headtracking is really useful at all. I had headtracking on my pc and android smartphone always found it gimmicky since after all I want to keep watching what's on my screen. Still, interesting if they manage to do some good virtual audio too

Haha, perfect timing

@@JoeGillian0 I have the airpod pros, and it’s not gimmicky at all. It only works with Disney plus, HBO Max, and soon Netflix. It sounds just like you in a theater!

@@mikesmith1290 Hi Mike...i was just talking about the head tracking that i dont find crucial but he a nice bonus, but i am all for the sound in 3d audio or spatial audio. I tried it on my TV or on my computer it was really involving with Sony hw700WS or other headphones on my PC

That's exactly why I made this video, glad you found it!

I'll take that as a complement, haha. Especially with a name like yours.

Binaural is just two channels of audio, same as stereo. The line between the two can be a bit blurry, but it comes down to binaural content having extra filtering to create the illusion of sound coming from all directions, whereas stereo only attempts to reproduce sound coming from in front of us.

In my experience Dolby sounds the best. DTS is slightly worse, and Sonic is much worse. Generally open back headphones sound the best.

I’m an idiot, you literally have a video titled “immersive sound 101”

@@Desopolis Haha, glad you were able to find that one. I've got more videos coming out soon that will cover specific aspects of immersive audio in more detail, and I'll go into more depth with specific tools like Ambisonics.

@@AlteraSound Thats awesome and I think very needed in the space, especially as more people get exposed to it through platforms like the PS5. I’m a developer/web guy with a ton of experience with visual tools and there are significant resources out there for how stuff gets rendered, why a color is a color, etc. Plus tools and libraries.. Sound/signal manipulation is pretty new to me and not as easy to jump into (IMO)... I’m trying to understand what is actually being done to the signal that causes the brain to perceive it at that position, as well as how other sounds in the mix may distort/enhance the effect. Left and Right pan is pretty obvious, but front/back as well as vertical plane is still black magic to me.. I think the usage it games and VR is great but I’ve heard some music lately that the producers/mixers are using spatial sound in absolutely amazing ways..

There's lots of ways to mix spatial content. You can take just a normal stereo mix and turn it into an immersive format using "upmix" plugins, but the result usually isn't amazing. The better way is to mix directly in a spatial format like you mention. If you prefer producing in Ableton, you can produce your song, then export all of the tracks individually and take them into Reaper and do the spatial mix. That's how most mixes are done, but it does split up the process a bit. I think you can produce spatial mixes within Ableton and do everything at once, but I'm not very familiar with Ableton.

Generally the more accurate the headphones are, the better the surround effect will translate. Personally I'd lean towards recommending open back headphones because the design helps the sound blend into the real world.

In my experience the type of headphones can definitely make a big difference, but there isn't necessarily one best type of headphones. For example, I've found that Sony 360 sounds much better with in-ear headphones rather than over-ear. In general open back headphones are better, but some of them like the Sennheiser HD series have very tamed high-frequency response, so they don't work as well as others.

Really any pair will work. A lot of people prefer open back headphones like from Sennheiser and Beyerdynamic, but some sources like Sony 360 work better with earbuds.

"But I don't think there's going to be a receiver to a decode Sony's new audio format so to me it's just going to be another simulated types around sound" right! how you can decode what doesn't even exist as format? its just a gimmick like SRS WOW/Trusurround XT that was onboard of wast majority of CRT TV's since early 2000's. Sony won't be Sony if it doesn't wast a gazillion of dollar for another failed proprietary format that soon or later fails because of its greed and incompetence. true object based surround requires beefy digital signal processor (aka DSP) decoding support , development and implementing of which costs tons of money. you have to convince companies such as Cirrus Logic,Texas Instruments,NXP,Analog Devices and others to implement your format in to their DSP firmware and hardware, then you have to convince hardware manufacturers to implement and license all of this in to their surround systems. Sony just wasted a couple hundreds of millions in to nothing while Microsoft let his consumers choose between DTS:X and Dolby Atmos and binaural formats such as windows sonic,dts: headphones x and dolby atmos for headphones.

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i just did another test and it seems when watching this video - Dolby Atmos sounded almost exactly stereo but Sonic and DTS-X had to much decoding issues

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