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A history of binaural recording

‘Binaural’ simply means ‘relating to two ears’, and it’s only an accident of history that we don’t use the word instead of ‘stereo’ (which actually means ‘solid’). As it is, binaural recordings are basically recordings made specifically for listening to on headphones rather than loudspeakers.... Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 5 August 2010 Disscussion: 1 comment Categories: Recording , Lab Tags: ,,

The future of surround sound from MIT

The Opera of the Future group is an MIT Media Lab Research Group led by Society of Sound Fellow Tod Machover. It explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression. Through the design of new interfaces for... Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 Disscussion: 2 comments Categories: Recording , Lab Tags: ,,,,,

Abbey Road and the Beatles – the story behind the remasters

An insightful and exclusive interview with Allan Rouse, project co-ordinator of the Beatles remastered boxsets... Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 7 January 2010 Disscussion: 101 comments Categories: Recording , Lab Tags: ,,,

Is Studio Recording Killing Music?

Sparked on by a love of classic record producers such as Phil Spector, Joe Meek, and Sam Phillips, Bowers & Wilkins got together a panel of musical experts to see what they had to tell us about music and sound reproduction. Producers, musicians, and people... Read more

Posted on: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 Disscussion: 48 comments Categories: Recording , Lab Tags: ,,,,,,,,