Genelec - Developments In Immersive Audio | Podcast

Aki Mäkivirta, R&D Director at Genelec, talks to Sam Inglis about the latest developments in immersive audio, from calibrating your system using their GLM software to personalising your headphone monitoring experience with Aural ID technology. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:34 - Immersive Audio 02:07 - Loudspeaker Density 05:44 - Automating Calibration With GLM 08:10 - Choosing Your Speaker System 11:27 - Mixing Immersive Music 13:29 - Aural ID For Audio Professionals 18:45 - Mixing For Different Surround Formats 20:57 - Improving How Audio Is Received 22:19 - The Future Of Immersive Audio First published June 2022 https://www.soundonsound.com/people/g... Genelec Biog For over 40 years, Genelec studio monitoring solutions have delivered truthful, neutral sound reproduction — enabling engineers and creatives to make accurate and reliable mix decisions, even in challenging rooms. Founded in Finland by childhood friends Ilpo Martikainen and Topi Partanen, the company’s first monitor, the S30, instantly became the blueprint for Genelec’s future direction. Its active design delivered consistent performance, total reliability, and the ability to adapt to the acoustic environment it was operating in. Genelec’s growing range of Smart Active Monitors work closely with GLM calibration software, allowing each monitor to be completely optimised for the room, producing mixes that translate consistently to the outside world - from stereo to immersive. For headphone users, Genelec’s latest Aural ID software development delivers a more truthful, reliable and completely personalised listening experience, allowing the user to switch between monitors and headphones seamlessly. Aki Mäkivirta Biog Aki Mäkivirta joined Genelec in 1995. He originally worked for the Nokia Research Centre and teamed up with Ari Varla of Genelec during a joint venture between the two companies, where Mäkivirta demonstrated how to replace analogue filters with digital processing using the 1031A nearfield monitor. As a result, Mäkivirta joined Genelec to pioneer the creation of the original 8200 series of Smart Active Monitors, before becoming R&D Director in 2013. https://www.genelec.com/ Sam Inglis Biog Editor In Chief Sam Inglis has been with Sound On Sound for more than 20 years. He is a recording engineer, producer, songwriter and folk musician who studies the traditional songs of England and Scotland, and the author of Neil Young's Harvest (Bloomsbury, 2003) and Teach Yourself Songwriting (Hodder, 2006). https://www.soundonsound.com About The People & Music Industry Podcast Channel. Listen to experts in the field, company founders, equipment designers, engineers, producers and educators. ______________________________________________________ Catch more shows on our podcast channel. https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podc... Available on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon or wherever you get your podcasts. ______________________________________________________ Subscribe to Sound On Sound: https://sosm.ag/subscribe Visit our main website (over 16,900 articles!): https://www.soundonsound.com ______________________________________________________ Get FREE 170-page RECORDING TECHNOLOGY eBook: https://sosm.ag/recording-ebook ______________________________________________________ Get 50% SAVING off a Sound On Sound Digital Subscription. Go to https://sosm.ag/digital and apply Promo Code: SOSYT50 Like FACEBOOK:   / soundonsoundmag   Follow X (Twitter):   / soundonsoundmag   Follow INSTAGRAM:   / soundonsoundmag