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17 Dolby Atmos in the studio


Several manufacturers are involved in the provision of speakers, amps, and management for Dolby Atmos systems for post facilities and for cinema. Higher profile manufacturers include JBL (which was chosen, along with Crown amps, for the Ray Dolby Theatre at the Dolby HQ in London), and Meyer Sound, conventional studio monitors from companies like Genelec are also being specified and successfully used.


Meyer's Atmos products include the Acheron 80 screen channel loudspeakers, the X-800C and X-400C cinema subwoofers, and


Dubbing Brothers uses Meyer Sound speakers for its Dolby Atmos facility.


the HMS-10 and 10 HMS-12 surround loudspeakers.


JBL's Atmos offerings include the three-way ScreenArray system, and the relatively new 9320 large-format cinema surround loudspeaker, with the rotatable Progressive Transition Waveguide.


Plugging Atmos


The Dolby Panner plug-in for Pro Tools


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The main Dolby authoring tools in Pro Tools are the Dolby Atmos Monitor application and the Dolby Atmos panner plug-in. The other core component is the RMU (Rendering And Mastering Unit), which facilitates monitoring, recording a print master, and playing back a print master. During mixing, the Dolby pushes metadata to the RMU, which can then render an Atmos mix - or downmix - for monitoring. In the same way, native Atmos mixing provision in


products like the Avid System 5 and Pro Tools send metadata directly to the RMU. The Dolby Monitor application controls and communicates with the RMU and provides lots of useful visual feedback, such as metering, signal present indicators, object positional display, and speaker configuration.


Metadata is transported to the RMU via Ethernet, while MADI is used to send the audio.


used for communication with the RMU and monitoring of the


The Dolby Monitor application,


Atmos objects and beds.


The Pro Audio Report


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