Spatial Audio - Ambisonics

Ambisonics captures an entire sound field, not just the sounds within it. Rather than recording audio from a fixed left and right perspective, Ambisonic recording preserves the full 360-degree acoustic environment—including sounds above, below, and all around the listener. This makes it an invaluable tool for immersive media, virtual reality, archival preservation, and acoustic research. Lowell's Ambisonic recordings are intended to preserve places as they truly sound, allowing future listeners to experience environments with a level of realism that conventional recording techniques simply cannot achieve.

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Basics of Ambisonics

Ambisonics (Wikipedia)

Ambisonics is a full-sphere surround sound format: in addition to the horizontal plane, it covers sound sources above and below the listener.

The Beginner's Guide To Ambisonics (RØDE)

Ambisonics is a full-sphere surround sound format or a means of representing the sound field at a point or in space. Unlike conventional stereo and surround sound formats (which are based on the principle of panning audio signals to specific speakers), ambisonics captures the full directivity information for every soundwave that hits the microphone. Crucially, this also includes height information, as well as the full 360° around the microphone.

Ambisonics - Use Scenarios/Applications

Ambisonics Tutorials - Nuendo

Ambisonics Editing with NLEs

Ambisonics Tutorials - Reaper

Ambisonics Tutorials - Adobe Audition

Ambisonics Tutorials - Ableton Live

Dr. Lowell Lybarger

Lowell Lybarger is a lifelong explorer of sound. A soundmaker, archivist, preservationist, and ethnomusicologist dedicated to capturing music in all its forms. He’s spent decades documenting, restoring, and creating audio that might otherwise be lost to time. This site is the hub of his ongoing work and curiosity.