Art and Science of 3D Audio Recording

Edwin Pfanzagl-Cardone is head-of-sound at the acoustics department of the "Salzburg Festival" of classical music in Austria. After completing his degree in Electronics Engineering and Information Technology at TGM, he graduated from the "University of Music and Performing Arts" in Vienna in 1991, and received a Tonmeister (Sound Master) degree. In 2000, he completed his M.A. in Audio Production at the University of Westminster, London. In 2011, he received his PhD in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics from KUG - University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria. Since the early 1990s, he has been working as a sound engineer for music recording and live sound reinforcement, and for film and TV, mainly in Europe, but also in Japan and the United States. As an arranger and composer, he has released recordings with BMG and SONY in the field of pop music, and has provided content for international production-music labels, and for radio and TV commercials. Author of AES and VDT-convention preprints, Dr. Pfanzagl-Cardone has published more than 60 articles in magazines for sound engineers, such as Pro Sound News Europe, Studio Sound, Sound-On-Sound, and Production Partner. From 2010 to 2021 he has been teaching Sound Reinforcement Technology at the Faculty of Design, Media and Arts at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg. As a composer he has released four international CDs. In addition to several hundred archival recordings for the Salzburg Festival, his discography as a sound engineer consists of about thirty CDs and three LPs with music labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Orfeo. He is the inventor of three microphone techniques: the AB-Polycardioid Centerfill (AB-PC), the ORTF-Triple (ORTF-T) and the Blumlein-Pfanzagl-Triple (BPT), and holds a patent in surround microphone technology.

• Critical introduction and a few case studies.- 3D- or 'Immersive Audio' – the Basics and a Primer on Spatial Hearing.- The DOLBY® „AtmosTM“ System.- HOA – Higher Order Ambisonics (Eigenmike).- The Isosceles-Triangle, M.A.G.I.C Arrayand MMAD 3D (after Williams).- DTS:X.- SONY “360 Reality Audio”.- Recording microphone techniques for 3D-Audio.- Comparative 3D audio microphone array tests.

“The Art And Science Of Surround And Stereo Recording, the 400-page tome provides detailed technical insights into the strengths and weaknesses of many different stereo and surround microphone techniques … . A huge amount of theoretical and practical information has been drawn together very skilfully in this new book and, while it certainly takes some very careful digestion, I found it a fascinating and helpful guide to the technical workings of each technique … .” (Hugh Robjohns, SOS Sound On Sound, soundonsound.com, October, 2024)“The Art and Science of 3D Audio Recording by Edwin Pfanzagle-Cardone covers a lot of ground and should be of interest to a wide range of readers. The first thing I noticed about this book is that it is chock full of colorful and detailed illustrations. It really is a feast for the eyes and, of course, the brain! … I recommend The Art and Science of 3D Audio Recording for any­one interested in 3D audio … .” (Todd Welti, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 71 (11), November, 2023)