Inside the Studio – Paragon Studios 2.0

With the growing popularity of Dolby Atmos™, many people are making a move to adapt their home studio into an immersive environment. Spatial audio has also changed the game with the need for new, more intricate studio designs. In both scenarios, you now have to deal with many more considerations. Building a room for stereo mixing can be somewhat straightforward, but once you utter the word, “Atmos”, your spatial real estate becomes a priority. Even beyond the cost of gear, to really do it right, finances come quickly into play. And so far, I’m just referring to music rooms.

Mixing film, TV and streaming content for immersive audio formats requires even greater considerations. Mixing a three-minute song is one thing. Mixing a long-form production with dialogue, music and effects is even more complex, as is creating the proper working space in an otherwise home environment––remember, traditionally this work is done in professional, theater-scale mixing stages. Still, similar to the shift toward home studios for music, advances in technology are now making it possible for people to mix immersive sound for film right in the comfort of their own home. With that, allow me to introduce Fred Paragano and Paragon Studios.