Recording Setup

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Sam Bilbow edited this page Dec 8, 2022 · 2 revisions

Space

Choose a space with an interesting sound palette!
Monitor the audio for a while, get to know the sounds. Perhaps a deep listening exercise?
I found it best to sit down, you're tethered by the length of your LMC USB cable anyway

Visual

I found that the recordings of compositions worked really well with an accompanying 360 video, I used a GoPro for this. I used GoPros tool to bounce down the two sides of 360 video into an equirectangular video.
I also took a screen recording of the patch whilst composing, using QuickTime Player
These were composited in Adobe Premiere Pro, with the screen view acting as a 'picture-in-picture'

Audio

The patch outputs (if enabled) two 4-channel B-Format .wav files to your user directory: ~/, realEnv.wav and virtualEnv.wav containing the real and virtual audio capture from the patch.
I added these to the Premiere Pro project as ambisonic audio
I then mixed down the project to equirectangular, with ambisonic audio, for YouTube 360.

Project Files

Sources

360 footage .mov (converted from GoPro GBACK and GFRONT .mp4 files)
Screen Recording of Max 8 .mov
B-Format Microphone Capture realEnv.wav
B-Format Max 8 Capture virtualEnv.wav

Output

Equirectangular 360 / Ambisonic video .mp4