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Mix Nashville: Shani Gandhi, Michael Romanowski Join Speaker Lineup

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Mix Staff

Mix Nashville: Immersive Music Production

Nashville, TN (May 10, 2023)—MixNashville is barely 10 days away, however increasingly more revered professionals are becoming a member of the speaker lineup for the occasion! Recording engineer Shani Gandhi and mastering engineer Michael Romanowski have joined the record of professional panelists on the upcoming occasion, to be held all day alongside Music Row on Saturday, May 20.

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Since shifting to Nashville a bit of greater than a decade in the past, Gandhi, who was nominated for a Best Engineered, Non-Classical Grammy in 2021 for her work on Sierra Hull’s 25 Trips and in 2017 for Sarah Jarosz’s Undercurrent, has amassed a shopper record that spans Americana, Folk and Country, working with artists Sarah Jarosz, Kelsea Ballerini, The Arcadian Wild, Parker Millsap and plenty of others. Gandhi can be showing in Columbia Studio A at 12:15 on the panel titled “Separate But Equal: The Stereo and Immersive Mixes.”

Romanowski, who was a part of the engineering group on Alicia Keys’ 2022 Grammy Award-winner for Best Immersive Audio Album, has for the previous 5 years been main nationwide name for mastering as a part of the immersive audio course of. He has spoken at quite a few conferences and occasions to assist educate each audio professionals and music trade executives. He has additionally mastered a whole bunch of immersive audio initiatives from his Coast Mastering facility in Berkeley, Calif.

Romanowski can be talking all through the day as he curates the immersive music listening periods within the Neumann/Sennheiser 7.1.4 setup within the Front Stage Studio at Black River Entertainment. He may also be a part of the professional panel sequence within the Focusrite-sponsored programming at Curb Studios, showing from 11:00 – 11:45 on the panel titled: “Why You Need Immersive Mastering (Despite What You May Hear).”

Mix Nashville: Immersive Music Production is produced together with Host Partners Curb Studios, Belmont University and Blackbird Studio. During the day, Host Partner Curb Studios, together with Black River Entertainment, Columbia Studio A and Starstruck Studios, will characteristic a sequence of professional panels, undertaking profiles, expertise exhibitions and demonstrations, interviews with prime engineers and producers, immersive listening periods, and rather more. At evening, the occasion strikes to the close by Berry Hill neighborhood for a celebration at Blackbird Studio, together with a Studio Crawl that includes immersive music Listening Sessions at quite a few close by studios, together with Imogen Sound, Sputnik Sound, Addiction Sound Studios, Westlake Pro and the ADAM Audio showroom.

Full programming and exhibition particulars proceed to be introduced, so for essentially the most up-to-date data.

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Recording Academy P & E Wing Posts Immersive Webinars

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Mix Staff

Inside the Mix

Santa Monica, CA (March 10, 2023)—The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing has archived and is making accessible six webinar episodes, titled “Inside the Mix,” that it co-presented with Dolby as a particular engagement of the Dolby Atmos Music Master Class sequence.

Each featured completely different consultants from Dolby protecting the whole lot from room configurations and tuning to metadata for immersive audio, together with a stay Q&A with producers and engineers working with Dolby Atmos immersive audio. The webinars had been launched by Maureen Droney, vp of the Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing, and Christine Thomas, Dolby Laboratories head of music partnerships, and moderated by four-time Grammy Award-winning engineer Michael Romanowski.

The episodes are offered by Dolby Atmos knowledgeable Ceri Thomas; Bryan Pennington, senior purposes supervisor at Dolby; David Gould, Dolby’s senior director, content material creation options, and John Scanlon, senior supervisor of Dolby Institute and occasions; and Mike Ward, Dolby director of client leisure expertise and Romanowski.

P&E Wing Shares Immersive Audio Panel

Topics embrace deliverables; room configurations and tuning; pointers, instruments and mixing workflow; a deep dive into the technical capabilities of Dolby Atmos Music codecs; metadata; and an outline of certification choices, skilled assist boards and data bases, and different sources.

Maureen Droney remarks, “As a part of the P&E Wing’s ongoing dedication to offering the trade with essentially the most wanted info, we’re happy to current these periods recorded with consultants from Dolby. These periods had been informative, well timed and entertaining as nicely, and we invite all audio professionals to observe them for yourselves and get the within scoop. We thank all of our company from Dolby for his or her incisive commentary, and we look ahead to additional periods protecting extra subjects of significance sooner or later.”

Also a part of the “Inside the Mix” sequence, a separate earlier session, “Prelude: Immersive Audio 101,” provided an immersive audio primer. The session featured panelists Jimmy Douglass (producer and engineer: Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z); Leslie Ann Jones (recording engineer, director of music recording and scoring/Skywalker Sound, and present co-chair of the P&E Wing); Mike Piacentini (mastering engineer: Bob Dylan, Coheed and Cambria, Miles Ahead – A Miles Davis Biopic); and Darcy Proper (mastering engineer: Billie Holiday, Steely Dan, the Eagles).The panel was joined by moderator Brian (BT) Gibbs (producer and immersive combine engineer, Skyline Entertainment & Publishing) and Droney.

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IsoAcoustics Immersive Mounts Land at Coast Mastering

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Mix Staff

Michael Romanowski’s Coast Mastering Studio

Berkeley, CA (February 8, 2023)—IsoAcoustics’ speaker isolation technology has long been used in studios around the globe, but with the recent release of the company’s V120 Mounts for spatial audio setups, applying that technology to ceiling- and wall-mounted speakers, the company is entering a whole new mixing realm. Mastering and mix engineer Michael Romanowski, who was just awarded his fifth Grammy on Monday in the category Best Engineered Album, Classical, recently adopted IsoAcoustics V120 Mounts for his immersive setup at Coast Mastering.

Working from his Coast Mastering Studio in Berkeley, Calif., Romanowski has specialized in mastering immersive audio productions. “We master music to be as translatable as possible across all the different platforms, physical media, streaming, LPs,” Romanowski explains. “There are so many different ways people are listening to immersive sound, from sound bars to headphones, that mastering is absolutely essential—because there are so many places for things to go wrong.”

Coast Mastering Digs In for New Facility

Since coloration caused by the playback system must be avoided when mastering, Romanowski opted for the mounts on his height speakers, noting, “To me, the height speakers are really used more for cues about spatiality. Those little details that give us those cues live in the small bits, in the fine resolution and the detail.”

Romanowski’s hybrid 9.1.6 system consists of Focal Stella and Focal Diablo Evo speakers driven by Bricasti amps for the ear level, a Meyer Sound Amie subwoofer and six Neumann 310s on the ceiling, mounted to tracks so they can be moved to adjust for different immersive audio formats. They are all isolated with IsoAcoustics technology: “The V120s isolate the speakers from the track on the ceiling, just like the IsoAcoustics GAIAs do for the speakers on the floor. The speaker is vibrating by itself and doing what it’s supposed to be doing, rather than transmitting that energy to another source.”

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Coast Mastering Digs In for New Facility

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Steve Harvey

Coast Mastering - before — Michael Romanowski literally undermined his house to create the new home of Coast Mastering, excavating 10 feet beneath the edifice to create space for a mastering facility and accompanying live room.

Berkeley, CA (December 23, 2020)—It took 18 months for Michael Romanowski to build the latest iteration of Coast Mastering under his Bay Area house, during which time he and his wife were without heat. “The furnace was the first thing to go; it was like camping,” he says.

Berkeley-based Pancoast Construction dug down 10 feet below the house, which is on a slope, to accommodate Romanowski’s plans for a mastering room that supports today’s leading immersive formats. Acoustical consultant Bob Hodas tuned the room and devised an ingenious bass trap that makes use of a three-foot cavity above the 11-foot ceiling. Studio design consultant Bob Levy was also involved from the start of the project.

The finished room is outfitted with a 9.1.6 monitoring setup for Dolby Atmos Music work (Romanowski consulted with Dolby’s Ceri Thomas from the get-go) and can additionally accommodate Auro-3D. With the addition of two front floor-level speakers, the room can also handle Sony 360 Reality Audio projects.

Three Focal Scala Utopia EM speakers deliver the LCR channels with six Focal Utopia Diablo Evo speakers providing side and rear zone coverage. “I found I was drawn to the sound of the inverted beryllium dome tweeter—it’s very natural—and how Focal handle their drivers seamlessly across octaves,” he says. A Meyer Sound sub provides LFE.

Romanowski’s quest to replace his aging Pacific Microsonics Model Two converters led him to Bricasti. “The pairing of the Focals and the Bricastis has worked out great,” he says. For overheads, he installed Neumann KH 310 speakers, on tracks, to allow repositioning. “I like how their high frequency dispersion works with the Focals. It gives me a nice fullness from the ceiling without any compromises.”

There is no mastering console. Instead, Romanowski’s gear is within easy reach, with just a workstation screen and keyboard in front of him, where he uses Steinberg’s WaveLab. “It uses the same engine as Nuendo,” he notes. Nuendo, it turns out, is what he uses for tracking, mixing and now immersive mastering since it can handle ADM files within Dolby Atmos. The new facility includes a tracking room, and he’s been mixing Sony 360 Reality Audio projects for Sonic Studio’s Jon Reichbach and his Streamsoft Artist Connection music service.

Literally undermining his house was no simple task, but it was worth it, says Romanowski: “Immersive music is ripe for so many problems—phase issues, presentation issues. If we’re going to get it right, we need rooms like this to keep the bar high.”

Coast Mastering • www.coastmastering.com

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Coast Mastering Opens Immersive Room

Posted on November 19, 2020 by ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff

Berkeley, CA (November 19, 2020)—Mastering engineer Michael Romanowski recently completed a new facility at Coast Mastering that is outfitted to handle projects up to Dolby Atmos 9.1.6.

The new mastering room was designed by Romanowski along with acoustical consultant Bob Hodas, who also tuned the room. California-based audio engineer and studio design consultant Bob Levy worked closely with the build-team from the beginning of the project.

Coast Mastering features equipment chosen over Romanowski’s 30 years as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer, both in Nashville and the San Francisco Bay Area. On the audio software side, Romanowski has been mastering immersive audio projects using the Steinberg Nuendo software for many years.

Compiling the Box Set of America

A main feature of the new studio are the Focal Scala Utopia EM speakers for left, right, and center channels which tower at almost six feet tall, and Focal Utopia Diablo Evo speakers for the six surrounds, which are all paired with Bricasti amplifiers and converters, and Wireworld cables. The subwoofer is by Meyer Sound, while the six height speakers are by Neumann. Stillpoint Aperture acoustic treatment was used throughout the new studio.

“As a music fan, I have really been enjoying the variety of styles of music that I have mastered in Atmos, with Alicia Keys, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, The U.S. Army Field Band, Fantastic Negrito, The Devil in California, and a local Bay Area Latin fusion band, Vibrason, among many other projects,” said Romanowski.

“I built my first mastering room in 2000 for 5.1 surround with Paul Stubblebine, then moved to immersive sound adding height speakers in 2018. My new mastering room was built specifically for immersive formats including Dolby Atmos. It’s such a joy to work in and to really hear the music as it is, so I can make the best decisions for my clients.”

Coast Mastering • www.coastmastering.com

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