USES FOR DOLBY ATMOS AND SPHEROUND

NOW WE HAVE DOLBY ATMOS (AND SOON SPHEROUND), WHAT CAN WE USE THEM FOR?

EXPECTED USES:

  1. Immersive music (what most people want)
  2. Special compositions with instruments placed all around the listener
  3. Space battles in 3-D (or other kinds of battle)
  4. Large church and concert hall ambience in a recording
  5. Sounds at an airport or spaceport
  6. Classsical music intended to be performed from various places in a church or concert hall

     Examples include Handel's "Messiah"* and Berlioz's "Requiem"

  7. Exodus 20 and Matthew 3:17
  8. Several movies were made in a version of Dolby Surround with height speakers
  9. Nature all around: wooded area, aviary, or bringing outdoor sound into a care center†

SUGGESTED and FUN USES:

  1. A 3-D aircar traffic jam
  2. I remember seeing a play with people singing out of different windows on both sides of the street
  3. Explode-a-mix: Move all of the musical parts apart so each one is in a different space
  4. Capture the sounds inside a factory†
  5. "Fantasia 3"
  6. Landing UFOs
  7. Cartoon cat-and-mouse chase in 3-D
  8. A thunderstorm (my very first height effect, done in Hafler Diamond quadraphonic system in 1971).

OFF THE WALL USES:

  1. Use my spherfield mic† to hear what is going on outside your house from in your media room
  2. Capture the sounds of a live concert in 3-D†
  3. Use the Spheround decoder to listen to SQ recordings in a new immersive way

 

USING SPHEROUND

USING ATMOS

 

* When I was a child, I was part of one of those performances of "Messiah" in a church that had balconies behind the preacher, on both sides of the front of the sanctuary, and at the back (with a large church organ in the back). Surround sound before we could record it.

† Using my spherfield mic: Surround Fields