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Apple Music Spatial Audio Dolby Atmos mixes coming soon
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Finally can share now that Shambhala officially has posted about it.

We hired a team this year to do Spatial Audio recordings of some of the stages and sets this year.

They placed multiple microphones all over the dance floor and stage to capture the sound of the environment, along with the direct feed of the audio.

This then allows them to mix down a multi channel Dolby Atmos experience that Apple Music users can experience. As close as you’ll likely get to physically transporting yourself back into the crowd for these sets.

You do not need a multi speaker surround system to experience Dolby Atmos. Apple AirPods use binaural mixdown to calculate arrival time of a multi channel audio stream to the listener position to give the illusion of standing in the center of a multi speaker setup. If you also enable head tracking with AirPods, as you turn your head, the source of the audio will stay physically in place.

With traditional stereo, the sound is directly on each ear, left & right channel. And as you turn your head the sound is still directly on each ear. With Spatial Audio and head tracking, the sound is much wider, and anchored so as you turn your head, if a sound source is from in front of you, turning your head to the left will keep the sound in the direction your head was originally facing. Which is how it is in real world when you’re standing at a concert facing the stage.

Why Apple Music and not another platform? Spotify does not host dj mixes as it does not allocate royalties correctly. Apple Music mixes that are uploaded get fully tagged with separate tracks and royalties are paid out to the owners of each song/sample, and not to the DJ that uploaded the mix who might not have even played their own music. Apple Music also pays artists nearly TWICE as much per stream than Spotify. Apple Music also has LOSSLESS quality for all subscribers at no extra cost, as well as Dolby Atmos. Something which Spotify for years has still not implemented. As for SoundCloud, it’s far too easy for a mix to get flagged and taken down for a sample/song that an artist put in their mix. The payout to original copyright owners is also not as well implemented like Apple Music. And again, no lossless or Dolby Atmos.

I understand Apple Music may not be your platform of choice, but this was something we’ve wanted to try out to bring the experience of Shambhala outside of attending the festival as close as possible to home. There is free 3 month trial if you wanted to try it out. It’s also on Android devices too, tho I’m not sure if Dolby Atmos is available on android app, but lossless quality is at least. For iPhone users, you can also get it pretty cheap if you get Apple One subscription which you can go in with 5 more people such as family members and split cost, and you get other services with it too.

Anyway, hope you enjoy when they get posted over next few days/weeks!

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