Welcoming Remarks

A KEYNOTE CONVERSATION: The Making of Immersive ‘Alicia’

The production team of A-List of engineers/producers Ann Mincieli, George Massenburg, Eric Schilling and Michael Romanowski spent three years working out the best possible way to present Alicia Keys immersively, and the results are evident in Alicia, the 2022 Grammy Award winner for Best Immersive Audio Album. Join the discussion as the group talks about the processes they developed for the Sony Reality Audio release, and what they learned along the way. Now they want to educate.

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Stereo to Immersive Mixing Workflows

With an impressive discography that includes artists like Carrie Underwood Neil Young, Cage the Elephant, the Jonas Brothers and many more, Grammy Award-winning engineer F. Reid Shippen has crafted an efficient Atmos-mixing workflow that has helped him expand his ever-growing roster of clients while staying true to his signature sound. Join us for an exclusive look inside his process for mixing songs in stereo and expanding them to Immersive formats, followed by a Q&A and meet-and-greet.

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Using A Moving Microphone Measurement To Tune A Multichannel System

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Kali will be demoing at Atmos system using their IN-Series coincident loudspeakers. These speakers represent one of the most cost effective solutions for building at Atmos system, and their high performance ensures translation across the entire landscape of potential playback spaces. Kali’s Director of Acoustics Engineering, Charles Sprinkle, will also be demonstration the Moving Microphone Method for measuring and calibrating multi-channel systems.

Additionally, Kali will have some of their newest prototype models available for early auditioning. 

Using A Moving Microphone Measurement To Tune A Multichannel System

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Kali will be demoing at Atmos system using their IN-Series coincident loudspeakers. These speakers represent one of the most cost effective solutions for building at Atmos system, and their high performance ensures translation across the entire landscape of potential playback spaces. Kali’s Director of Acoustics Engineering, Charles Sprinkle, will also be demonstration the Moving Microphone Method for measuring and calibrating multi-channel systems.

Additionally, Kali will have some of their newest prototype models available for early auditioning. 

Closing Remarks

Solid State Logic and JBL Professional take over Studio B, presenting a 7.1.4 fully immersive music mixing system based around the SSL System T S500 console and JBL Pro 708i speakers.

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Mix Studio Panel: Joe Bonamassa’s 'Time Clocks'—Stereo and Immersive

Blues great Joe Bonamassa recorded his much-heralded, late-2021 release Time Clocks at Germano Studios in New York City, then sent the tracks to Bob Clearmountain at Mix This! in Los Angeles for stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes, with all of it overseen by producer Kevin Shirley in Australia. Welcome to today’s recording industry! Join the Time Clocks production team as they detail the art, the process and the approach to both the stereo and immersive mixes. Are they the same? Should they be?

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Solid State Logic and JBL Professional take over Studio B, presenting a 7.1.4 fully immersive music mixing system based around the SSL System T S500 console and JBL Pro 708i speakers.

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ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING: Exhibit Hall


Wholegrain Digital Systems LLC
Wholegrain Digital Systems LLC was founded by Duane Wise in 2007 to create and market unique digital signal processors for professional audio applications. Its flagship product is the award-winning DynPEQ family of DAW plug-ins. DynPEQ is a complete and seamless integration of classic parametric EQ and dynamics processing. In addition to demonstrating DynPEQ and addressing your queries, Wholegrain will provide gentle reminders that Quartet DynPEQ supports multichannel stems such that its dynamics processing will not affect a spatial mix.

Dr. Nuno Fonseca, Ph.D., the creator of Sound Particles, made a huge splash in cinema and television sound with the creation of Sound Particles, an immersive audio software capable of generating thousands (even millions) of sounds in a virtual 3D audio world. Now, he has optimized his line for music, as well, with a host of new products. Explorer gives users the most powerful way to manage sounds in a fast and intuitive way—from stereo to immersive formats. Density uses granular technology to turn a single sound into small and large ensembles with several layers. Space Controller uses your phone as a movement reader and pans the sounds to where you're pointing. And Energy Panner uses the intensity of a sound to control its movement without any effort or additional routing.

Mixing Hip Hop for Atmos: Creative Techniques with 7x GRAMMY-nominated mixer/producer Rich Keller (DMX, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Nipsey Hussle) and Multi-Platinum Mixer Brian Chirlo (Rick Ross, Fabolous, DMX)

IK Multimedia's Aleks Urbaniak sits down with 7x GRAMMY-nominated Mixer/Producer Rich Keller (DMX, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Nipsey Hussle) and Multi-Platinum Mixer Brian Chirlo (Rick Ross, Fabolous, DMX) to discuss creative approaches in mixing Hip Hop for Dolby Atmos, their workflow, and how they have taken their years of mixing hit records in stereo and applied their techniques in Atmos to open up even more creative possibilities for the genre.

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The Challenges of Spatial Audio in Different Genres” with Multi-Platinum Atmos Mix Engineer Joseph J. Chudyk

IK Multimedia's Aleks Urbaniak sits down with Multi-Platinum Atmos Mixing Engineer Joseph J. Chudyk to discuss Apple Spatial audio, the lessons he's learned through mixing Spatial in multiple genres and the future of Spatial Audio.

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Mix Studio Panel: Mixing, Mastering and Distributing Immersive Music

Since its industry-wide emergence three years ago, immersive music has mostly meant immersive music mixing, and engineers have been left largely on their own in figuring out the new technologies, workflows and creative possibilities. Right away, they found that the care and attention to deliverables—in multiple formats, for multiple streaming services—was proving more complex and taking up a lot more time than first imagined. At the same time, mastering engineers and distributors/streamers have been working out the kinks and developing new workflows, to ensure that consumers hear a true representation of the immersive intent, whether in 7.1.4 or in “binaural” over a pair of headphones.

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Atmos Mixing & Mastering: Maintain the Artist’s Vision Without Compromise

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IK Multimedia’s Aleks Urbaniak sits down with 4x GRAMMY-winning, Diamond and Multi-platinum Mastering Engineer Alex Psaroudakis (ILLENIUM, ROSALÍA, Gente De Zona) and 2x GRAMMY-nominated, Multi-platinum Engineer Joe Grasso (The Weeknd, Shawn Mendes, Kid Cudi) to discuss mixing and mastering in Atmos and how to effectively collaborate with recording artists and their production teams to translate the stereo mix to Atmos without compromising the artistic vision of the original.