Audio-Technica’s BP3600 immersive audio microphone is now supported in the latest update to Flux::Immersive’s SPAT Revolution software (v23.08), allowing the capture and mixing of a three-dimensional audio.
The microphone has eight compact capsule assemblies with excellent high-frequency characteristics integrated into the body, while remaining compact and lightweight enough for single-operator usability and easy set-up. A practical broadcasting solution, the BP3600 allows sound capture that brings the recording location to listeners without the need for extensive equipment of processing.
The BP3600’s eight microphone modules extend from the body to form a cube with 150mm (5.9 inches) between each microphone assembly. Each assembly in the eight-channel near-coincident array is equipped with a 12mm (0.47-inch) hypercardioid capsule to produce ideally separated, discrete signals and deliver immersive audio experiences with ample spaciousness.
SPAT Revolution is a real-time immersive audio mix engine, in which incoming source objects – such as the Audio-Technica BP3600 capture – can be positioned in space using an intuitive graphical interface. Designed to integrate into virtually any workflow and with full automation of the sources and all spatialisation parameters, SPAT Revolution offers a wide range of opportunities to artists, sound designers and mixing engineers with virtually unlimited possibilities to design, craft and mix an outstanding immersive experience.
SPAT Revolution is the result of a partnership between Flux:: Immersive and the French research institute Ircam, created to bring the research in acoustics and music performed at Ircam available to the market.
‘Flux’s SPAT Revolution stands as the first-choice tool for immersive production among professionals and creatives,’says Audio-Technica’s David Walters. ‘It serves as the perfect bridge for integrating our BP3600 microphone seamlessly into highly complex immersive audio setups. So I am very excited for the full-fledged support of the BP3600 within SPAT Revolution – users can now readily experience the benefits of its advanced features and enhance their immersive audio production endeavours with these two great tools.’
‘We are excited to support the new three-dimensional Audio-Technica BP3600 channel base microphone, making it incredibly easy to capture and create an immersive soundscape in SPAT Revolution,’ adds Flux:: Immersive’s Hugo Larin. ‘This is a powerful addition to the rapidly growing world of immersive audio productions, giving sound designers and other creatives in this field new ways to capture the action.’
