Immerse Yourself
This Christmas
Bring the Halo family* together for the holidays
*plus cousin Paragon
There’s all sorts of things you can immerse yourself in this holiday season; the Christmas spirit, a hot cup of cocoa, a great big blanket, etc etc etc.
But how about immersing yourself in some immersive music production tools?
That’s right, the whole Halo family is here to visit! And we hope you’ve made up the guest bedroom, because cousin Paragon is making an appearance too.
All too often when we talk about immersive production tools, the focus is on audio post for TV and film. But more and more music producers are now mixing for Dolby Atmos, Apple Spatial and other immersive formats.
So which NUGEN Audio tools are a must-have for your immersive workflow?
Halo Upmix is a stereo to surround and 3D upmixer, perfect for taking a stereo synth pad and filling the room by converting it to a 7.1.2 bed track. This plug-in produces a coherent spatial upmix, preserving the character of the original audio without adding any artificial reverb, chorus or delays, which means zero phase issues in the folddown.
Halo Vision is a customisable visual analysis suite for 3D and immersive audio, featuring multiple flexible and configurable views for phase correlation, frequency analysis and more.
Halo Downmix is mostly known for its surround-to-stereo downmixing, but this downmixer plug-in also allows you to finetune an existing surround mix, great for remixing when you don’t have access to the original stems.
Paragon is a true convolution reverb that operates in up to 7.1.4 channels, allowing for unprecedented realism and unprecedented tweakability.
Recreating iconic stereo mixes in Dolby Atmos
Veteran Producer, Recording Engineer and Immersive/Stereo Mixer Will Kennedy has spent more than three decades shaping records for legendary artists across genres. As immersive audio continues to influence modern music production, Kennedy has become a committed adopter of Dolby Atmos, thanks in part to NUGEN Audio’s Halo Upmix plug-in, which has become an essential tool in his workflow.
Kennedy first fell in love with recording as a student at Berklee College of Music, later building his career at Ocean Way Nashville Studios and New York City’s Right Track Recording. After a brief hiatus, he restarted his path in Los Angeles in 2005, eventually partnering with renowned producer/mixer Matt Wallace. Together they operate Studio Delux, an immersive mixing facility located at the iconic Sound City complex.
Over the past several years, Kennedy and Wallace have handled more than 400 immersive mixes, including catalog and new-release Dolby Atmos projects for artists such as the B-52s, Black Sabbath, Dio, Sarah McLachlan, Grouplove, Jade Bird and the Jacob Mann Big Band.
Share this