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发表于 2021-10-12
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杜比全景声是LE LAB 的必选项|沉浸声母带工作室Powered by Merging
大意：国际专业母带制作公司已投入巨资建立能够为音乐、游戏和电影配乐制作的沉浸声制作工作室，支持Dolby Atmos母带制作是目前专业母带工作室的必选项。随着黑胶唱片的回归以及流媒体平台对高质量音频的迫切需求，各平台要求母带输出支持不同版本的交付物，Merging母带制作系统恰好契合所有需求。
Marc Thériault是一位加拿大知名母带工程师和制作人，他和Celine Dion合作超过25年，他的蒙特利尔LE LAB MASTERING在艺术家 Eric Clapton, AndreaBocelli, Coeur de Pirate, Carla Bruni, Roch Voisine…的偏爱下，已经制作了大约 3000 张专辑。他需要将LE LAB扩建成世界一流的Atmos母带工作室。因此，一个基于Merging AoIP的沉浸声工作室顺势而生。
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MarcThériault is establishing himself as one of the industry’s most promising mastering engineers, redefining boundaries with innovative techniques andapproach. Thériault’s keen ability to grasp the essence of a project combinedwith his technical expertise allows him to develop the final creative touch forany musical genre.
Masteringstudios are an exceptionally important step in the production of music andalways a key market for Merging. Their importance has grown significantlyrecently with more and more music being recorded in studios with less thanoptimum acoustics and more delivery options for the consumer to purchase.Technical requirements differ from streaming platform to streaming platform andnow with the return of vinyl, we are reminded that this needs a differentmaster to a CD or for a live streaming provider. The latest thing that needs tobe accommodated is the increase in demand for immersive and spatial musicprojects. Already required for some specialist projects, this has recentlyreceived a huge boost due to Apple and other streaming suppliers requiring Dolby Atmos® masters. If it’s tough enough to provide a stereo master, you canimagine how much more demanding it is to produce a coherent 7.1.4 master andcorrectly render it to Dolby Atmos. Specialist mastering houses internationallyhave invested heavily in setting up rooms capable of producing immersive audiocontent for music, games and movie soundtracks and whilst Atmos is the most indemand, there are other formats out there with important differences thatrequire the knowledge of an expert.
MarcThériault A facility that has invested heavily in setting up an immersive roomis Le Lab in Montreal, Canada. Already famous for its no-compromise stereoroom, it is no surprise that the immersive room is equally impressive. Owner,Marc Thériault confirmed that the COVID situation had allowed enough time toget this facility together whilst continuing to have demand for stereomastering. One challenge was to have sufficient IO to handle projects thatarrived as stems or even multitracks. Marc was convinced that the only way tosensibly tackle this challenge was on a network. Any other legacy format likeMADI just did not make any sense. A colleague and tenant for a while, CarlTalbot is a Merging Pyramix user and had shown Marc that as part of thispackage, there were excellent networked audio converters available fromMerging. A Hapi MKII would take care of the stems and replacing his old monitorcontroller with Anubis would offer many benefits including offering centralcontrol of the routing at the same time as providing the perfect answer to ABcomparisons, instant level adjustment, GPIO functions with a lot more optionsavailable. The fact that the converters sounded great was an added bonus.
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Theorigins of Le Lab are rather unconventional as Marc Thériault’s background isin live sound and his more than 25-year relationship with Celine Dion has beenpivotal in his career, but the recent situation caused the break inperformances that allowed the time to set up the Atmos room. Sensing there wasa need for a world class mastering facility in Montreal, Le Lab opened itsdoors in 2009. IP technology was not an option at that time and the key driversfor updating to AES67 have only appeared quite recently. Celine Dion and localQuebec albums were helpful in getting the facility started but with othercredits including Eric Clapton, Andrea Bocelli, Coeur de Pirate, Carla Bruni,Roch Voisine… Le lab has now gone international and has mastered about 3000albums. Other recent immersive projects include a Hans Zimmer score for a movieand a major games project. Of the 4 employees, 3 can cut vinyl with one doingit full time. Marc is exclusively doing Atmos projects which are a mixture oflegacy remasters and new material with most majors now requesting Atmos andstereo simultaneously.
OneHapi MKII is installed in the Atmos room with the second Hapi MKII plus anAnubis in the stereo room. There is an additional Anubis that has been used inthe studio but is primarily intended to be in Marc’s backpack when he hits theroad again. He is optimistic that this will find an important role with CelineDion but has yet to prove that point. Low latency is key here, but thepotential for using higher sample rates and plug ins look attractive. Whenasked what he particularly likes about the Merging gear he is using, Marcstates that he loves the flexibility and that you can set up multiple comparisonsat the touch of a button with easy trimming of the gain. He uses the talkbackbutton on the Anubis as a master dim control on the main outputs and he usesthe cue bus to send the signal to the spectrum analyser and loudness meter. Heis planning to switch the headphone monitoring to the Hapi MKII in the nearfuture, as it gives the ability to insert headphone calibration through thenetwork. The two rooms are not linked presently but that is also underconsideration so one can easily add IO resources to either room.
Marcis enjoying the Dolby Atmos projects and is very impressed with the overalleffect in the studio with properly calibrated speakers, but he is ratherconcerned that results in the home are likely to depend more on headphones andhere there are some variations in the results from the different platforms. Itis hoped that these differences can be ironed out in time. Le Lab continues towork flat out producing whatever format the client desires and with the hopethat live gigs will return soon, Marc is set for a busy schedule with a littlehelp from Merging Technologies.
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