Mixing Implementation Development of Virtual Acoustics
Within the following pages is the iterative session documentation that has been produced alongside the primary practice-based research inquiry into practical and creative application of the encoding method itself. The iterative process has spanned across both development and optimization of the rendering process and encoding functionality, as well as the structure and approach to the sessions themselves. Within each session, an aim is laid out to direct experimentation into a particular application or approach to implementation, this is then followed with practical implementation and reflection with each session based iteration honing further in on the specific aim. Documentation has detailed the steps to which each result is reached, as this process can take a number of iterations including both creative experimentation and occurrence within the practical application of obstacles from varying causes.
As iterations have been carried out, further understanding has been gleaned into the process of VA audio rendering, as well as into the vast variety for potential applications both creatively and practically. Along with the following documentation and to illustrate further the creative and practical application of VA rendering, some of the demo works below have accumulated into the production of an EP including many encoding applications and approaches, all implemented in the post-production context of music production.
The tracks herein have been produced alongside these action iteration sessions and use a number of implementation approaches to virtual acoustic mixing / mastering to present the creative element of the project. The relevancy for this EP to the project is that it contextualised and demonstrates the range of practical applications in post-production. Additionally the full tracklist has been bounced onto a cassette, to demonstrate the stereo transferability of the encoded audio. Original 48kHz digital masters also included -
Mercury’s Ellipse [Later ”Potions”] - 48kHz Masters
Track 1 - Engine Room - (5:41 / 48kHz / wav)
- Composition / Mix of both stereo & encoded stems Track 2 - You&Me - (3:56 / 48kHz / wav)
- Composition / Mix of both stereo & encoded stems Track 3 - Sapphire - (5:10 / 48kHz / wav)
- Remix track, encoded mastering Track 4 - Record Store - (3:16 / 48kHz / wav)
- Remix track with both standard & encoded stems Track 5 - Burden - (3:17 / 48kHz / wav)
- Remix track, encoded mastering
Track 6 - How We Livin? - (4:28 / 48kHz / wav)
- Remix track, encoded mastering
Track 7 - What Will Happen? - (6:35 / 48kHz / wav)
- Remix track with both stereo & encoded stems Track 8 - Ingleton Road - (4:21 / 48kHz / wav)
- Composition / mix of only encoded stems
+ Appendix A - Mercury’s Ellipse - Cassette Mixdown (36:46) - 2023 - Sharp : Mercury's Ellipse - Sociodelic - Tape Master - 48kHz.wav
