Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound
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This is often used by audio mixing engineers and taught in a roundabout way at schools and studios. We think a lot about where thins “sit” in the mix. Proximity wise, and even height wise in a stereo mix. Eventually you learn how to locate things in headphones and it’s a really weird sensation when you realize you can do it. The kicker is we start out by simulating real environments in mixes, but then end up having to simulate…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-12 | Teach Yourself to Echolocate | bookofjoe | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-10-13 | Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with soundFirst breakout · Best thread | zebraman | 571 | 105 |
| 2022-01-13 | Teach Yourself to Echolocate (2018) | mizzao | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-11-16 | Teach yourself to echolocate (2018)Latest 20+ point return | Anon84 | 247 | 75 |