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now there is plenty of audio file grade sound equipment out there that promises

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a super realistic experience but let's

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face it it is pretty darn hard to fool

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your ears into thinking that you're listening to something live as opposed

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to a recording or a stream even if you did blow your life savings on some

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amazing headphones or speakers but believe it or not there's actually a

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relatively old and fairly straightforward technology that can

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surpass even the most ridiculous surround sound speaker setups in terms

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of spatial realism I'm talking of course about Bal recording but what is that and

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how does it fool our brains into thinking we are right in the middle of a

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scene well it helps to keep in mind exactly how your ears work when you hear

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any kind of sound let's say it's your pet doing its best Yan cat impression

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from down the hall the sound waves are going to arrive at your ears at slightly

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different times and they'll also be slightly louder in one ear than the

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other your brain takes these minute differences and processes them to figure

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out exactly where the noise is coming from Boral audio takes advantage of this

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fact by recording an audio track in the first place in a way that mimics our

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natural hearing the idea itself is actually very simple to create a BAL

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recording two High Fidelity microphones are placed about roughly the same

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distance apart as your ears from each other some recording studios even embed

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the mics inside of a dummy human head complete with realistic ears to get an

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even more accurate sound Imaging and bippity boity the result is an amazingly

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accurate reproduction of Ambient sound that fools your brain into thinking the

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noises are really happening around you and since the concept behind banaro

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recording is so simple it was thought of long before the Advent of modern digital

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audio in fact it was first introduced for telephone phones all the way back in

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the 1880s but didn't become more common

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until fairly recently thanks to the falling prices of both recording

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equipment and headphones yes headphones only you

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cannot use this on your freestanding speakers because of the way the

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recordings are made remember the microphones are placed right where your

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ears would be the effect is nearly impossible to duplicate on regular

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speakers but the good news is that you at least don't need Super high-end

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headphones powered by some exotic tube amplifier to enjoy the effect a cheap

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pair of earbuds will actually do the trick just nicely well that's all fine

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and well Linus then but so where can I hear this Bal stuff I mean I don't

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really see a whole lot of it on Spotify although it is still pretty hard to find

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in music and movies various producers and musicians have been experimenting

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with it and a large community has popped up on YouTube around banaro recordings

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featuring everything from music to walking tours of New York City to

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Virtual Barber shops that are actually kind of creepy it's a very weird

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experience but if you're not into random novelty YouTube videos I totally get

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that and if you're waiting for banaro audio being part of your everyday

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listening experience if you're a gamer you'll be pleased to know that the

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future looks very bright because virtual reality game developers are seriously

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pursuing the use of Bal sound in headsets such as the Oculus Rift and

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Sony's Project Morpheus except instead

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of just using two microphones VR developers are experimenting with rings

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of microphones on dummy heads to create a true

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360° binural sound experience that is

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preserved no matter which way you turn wearing your head-mounted display and as

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virtual reality technology continues to mature game Publishers will seek more

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and more interesting ways to achieve full immersion in 3D sound and our ears

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may be in for just as much of a treat as our eyes you know what's a word for

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