Dolby Atomos entered India in 2012 with the launch of the first Atmos-Saksham screen in Chennai’s Satyam theaters. In the same year, Rajinikanth’s Shivaji 3D was released with Dolby’s object-based audio technology and premiered in premium. Since then, Dolby Atomos has become a domestic name, associated with any other device with earphones, headphones, home theater, smart TV, smartphone and speaker. And this is how most of us understand technology-a 3D sound stage that creates a circle when looking at films or listening to music using Atmos-Saksk devices.
But this is only one half of the dolby laboratories. The second half of the ATMOS implementation occurs well before hearing the final user experience. It is a post-production stage of a song or film, where ATMOS-competent software is used to enhance music or re-create movie audio, leading to a 3D sound stage effect.
Then, when a song mixed using an atmos is played through an atomos-competent device, users get to hear music which was described as one by The weekend Experience This “takes music to a new place, creating an emergency world where you can feel every detail. It is real.”
To experience and learn more about how the technology shapes the music formation process, I recently traveled to Fresh Lime Studio at Sacket, New Delhi’s only Dolby Atomos -Ssertified Studio.
Music construction inside a dolby atomos studio
Fresh Lime Studio, Berkali College of Music Alumnis is a dolby Atomos-prohibited recording room, where he and his team help musicians to make and up their songs in the 3D soundstage format.
The room is built around 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos configuration. It has three tracking rooms, including an ISO booth, a live room and a vocal booth, and comes with a full suit of gear from the pneumon and the Senaizer. In particular, a 7.1.4 speaker setup has referred to the seven surround speakers placed around the listener at the ear level, a subwoofer for low frequency effects, and four overheads or height speakers are used to give 3D spatial audio.
Dolby Atmos Setup
Photo Credit: Dolby
The music producing process has a digital audio workstation (DAW), a software (usually Pro Tools or Steinberg Nundo) that acts to record, edit, mix and produce audio as a central hub (think of it as a sound photoshop). Daw Dawlby runs the Atmos production suit, which is a software toolkit developed by Dolby that allows sound engineers and music manufacturers to create, mix and monitor dolby atomos content within DAW.
Within this toolset, music makers gain access to Atmos Render, which enables the placement of individual devices, vocals, or impacts such as separate “audio objects” in a virtual 3D space. Unlike traditional stereo, where the elements are fixed for the left or right channel, the Atmos enabling the complete freedom of movement by placing a vocal in front of the listener, enables the refreshment of the guitar, or allows the surroundings to move up.
In particular, a specific setup supports up to 128 audio tracks, which may include 118 audio objects and 10 channel beds. According to the priority of the manufacturer or artist, audio objects allow individual elements, such as a vocal line or Saneer hit, to freely move to 3D space.
Seth told Gadgets 360 that each manufacturer may have a different vision for a song, and they can prepare or produce the records in a different way, which makes the soundscape look completely unique. Of course, some basic things have to be followed, but everything else is a creative process.
As mentioned above, a track can either be basically made in atmos or it can be placed above (if the stereo version of the track is already present). For the east, artists and mixing engineers make spatial decisions from the ground, and they can be more experimental in nature. When upmixing, the engineer rebuilds the intentions of stereo mix by increasing it with more depth and altar.
Once you create an ATMOS mixture, it is exported as an audio definition model in the broadcast wave format (ADM BWF) file to maintain all status and time data. This master file is a platform like Apple Music, Amazon Music and Tidal Uses to give the listeners spatial audio.
Singer Sanjita Bhattacharya, who performed a song using Atmos, reported that this 3D sound stage also gives the artists a lot of freedom in creating a unique audio experience. He said that, unlike stereo, where the audio comes into a linear aircraft and often can feel flat, the Dolby Atomos makes the listener feel so that they are in the room similar to the artist and the band.
“With Dolby Atmos, we check to reflect the environment to reflect how the material was mixed, not only for preference, but also for spatial accuracy and emotional depth. This approach allows the sound to move the sound systematically through any place, connects in a way with the listeners, which makes a way, which makes a manner, which makes a manner, which makes a manner, which makes a manner, which makes a manner focus There is no compatible premium and irreversible experience, no matter, “
While most people know Dolby Atomos as a playback feature in headphones or TV, its real effect can be already lies in the studio, where it is quietly changing how music is prepared, layered and locally designed.
