By playing back these recordings on earbuds or headphones you achieve the most lifelike recordings you’ve probably ever heard, with a huge stereo soundstage. Your brain uses these reflections from your ear to help locate the sound in 3D space including the direction, distance, and any movement in the sound source. These are often used as lav (lavalier / tie-clip) microphones for broadcast interviews but find a very interesting use in the immersive audio world of 3D and binaural sound recording.īy placing the microphones in the outer ears, the binaural microphones record the sound as you hear it, including the reflections from the pinnae (outer ear). This type of microphone, rather than being pointed at the subject picks up sound from every direction. For binaural recording we use what’s known as “omni-directional” microphones, or “omnis”. This can be combined with picture to create an incredibly immersive experience, often beyond anything that can be achieved with either conventional sound design or artificially generated “spatial sound”.Ĭonventional stereo sound is most often recorded using “directional” microphones – you’ve no doubt seen these on film sets with big fluffy “windscreens” on long boom poles, in radio studios, or at a concert, on a pop video etc. We use high-end closely matched microphone capsules placed in the outer ears of the sound recordist to capture PoV (point of view) binaural sound.

Here’s a Binaural Sound Recording project that we recently completed for Sony Computer Entertainment to celebrate the success of the Until Dawn game. The three dimensional effect of the recordings can only be fully appreciated using earbuds / headphones, but the results are quite startling. Binaural Sound is a recording technique for producing ultra-realistic high definition and 3D recordings.

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