Apple announced on the 1st that it has started distributing the spatial audio version of the Beatles' best album "The Beatles 1" (English title "1") on its music distribution service Apple Music. [See another image related to this article] "The Beatles 1" is a best album released in 2000, but in 2015, a remix version (2015 version) was released by music producer Giles Martin. This time, the spatial audio version is based on the 2015 version. Apple Music already offers spatial audio versions of many Beatles works, many of which are by Giles Martin. The same is true for the spatial audio version of "1 (2015 version)". Giles Martin commented on his adaptation of spatial audio using Dolby Atmos to the Beatles work: Giles Martin: I've been working with surround for a long time. At LOVE in Las Vegas, we had a room with 7,000 speakers and produced a surround sound album that was a huge success. But back then, not many people were listening to surround sound. It took a while for companies like Apple to figure out how to make surround sound a pervasive consumer experience. Invite them to a special room and say, "This is going to be a great experience." However, if people can easily access it, they will "listen and be moved" before they know it. That's what music is. On the other hand, mixing spatial audio also required a long time. Giles Martin: Sometimes it takes half a day, sometimes it takes three days, sometimes it takes many more days. The reason is that for many of the early material, it is necessary to go back to "Studio 2" where the Beatles recorded. By doing so, you can feel "Studio 2" when actually listening to the music. I don't just mix the original tracks, but I try to recreate the atmosphere of the room they're in and make it more realistic. After that process, once the track is up, it's incredibly quick to mix. Of course, there are some tracks that I spend hours thinking, 'This is crazy, it just doesn't feel right. To be honest, A Hard Day's Night was tough. John's vocals, acoustic guitar and congas are in one song. Guitars, drums and bass on a separate track, John and Paul and another guitar on a separate track. This balance is important, and splitting as spatial audio instead of mono changed levels due to compression, and it was hard to get the same feel (from the original album). “A Day in the Life” was also difficult, but when you listen to it with spatial audio, it sounds really good. The song has already been published and can be listened to in the same way as any other spatial audio enabled song. The simplest is Apple products such as iPhone / iPad / Mac and Apple headphones equipped with "W1" and "H1" chips (3rd generation AirPods / AirPods Pro / AirPods Max, or Beats headphones, etc.) how to combine It is possible to use it on Android and use it with non-Apple headphones by changing the settings, but the spatial audio effect may differ from the combination of Apple products.
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