Atmos Webinar

If you are thinking of buiding a new recording studio or expanding your existing facility, then you should attend this vital online session featuring renowned producer and Dolby Atmos Expert, Paul Novotny, MA., PhD (ABD).

Thursday, Octover 17, 2 PM EST

In his 40-year career, Canadian bassist, composer, music producer, author, educator, and innovator Paul Novotny has performed with such eminent international jazz artists as Kenny Wheeler, Geoff Keezer, Cedar Walton, Junior Mance, Jo‑Anne Brakeen, and singers David Clayton Thomas, Roger Whitaker, Jackie Richardson, Ranee Lee, and Holly Cole.

As an audio producer, composer, and performer, Novotny has created music and sound design for numerous commercials, feature films, and television franchises including: The Canadian Broadcasting Company’s The National (2001) and The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos (2004), and Newsworld’s News Now (2005). He performed upright bass on the soundtrack for the internationally acclaimed, multi-platinum award winning Cuphead video game (2017), and its sequel which appears to be headed for release in 2025/26.

In 2016, Novotny became a certified Apple Digital Music mastering engineer, and earned his MA in music composition from York University the following year. Presently, his musicology/technology, and production-based PhD research explores the 3D Dolby Atmos Music format by introducing an innovative philosophy and studio design benchmark that offers independent music creators’ large operational scope within a small scale, affordability, and premium quality. This research is published by Routledge Taylor Francis UK in the series titled Innovation in Music, Cultures and Contexts (2024).

Novotny is on the faculty of Centennial College, Toronto, and on the pedagogical educational advisory committees for The Les Paul Foundation, Neumann, Eventide, OekSound, Bettermaker, and Sonarworks.

As an elected board member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada, Novotny has testified as an expert witness at two Heritage and Industry Science and Technology Government of Canada standing committees regarding fair copyright remuneration models for 21^st-century media streaming.

He is currently working a book for Routledge Taylor Francis UK, the worlds largest publisher of scholarly publications with a 200 year history of publishing innovative peer reviewed research. Routledge Taylor Francis UK — Innovation in Music, Cultures and Contexts.

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/paul-novotny-1832b35

Website: www.paulnovotnymusic.com

Featured story: www.proaudiospotlight.com/the-many-lives-of-paul-novotny-2/

This presentation will provide a novel philosophy and benchmark for the design and build of a Premium sole operator Dolby Atmos Hyper Near-Field Tiny Studio that in a small-scale, but operates with a large-scope.This premium Hyper Near-Field Tiny Studio achieves a flat response curve down to 24 Hz, at 85 db + 20 TruePeak (TP) for 1/3rd the cost of a larger Dolby Atmos Near-Field studio. The results have been presented to Dolby as verified by an eminent electroacoustic engineer (Ed Segeren) who has designed, built, and calibrated 5.1 Surround Sound and Atmos studios and theatres in Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto, This Dolby Atmos studio design is groundbreaking PhD research

Paul will discuss:

1) Room Dimensions: Layout and environmental philosophy

2) The Dolby Atmos Room Design Tool: Overview

3) Essential equipment and system chains: A, B, and C chains

4) Tuning and calibration: Acoustic and electroninc

5) The Economics: The primary argument for building a premium 7.1.4 Hyper Near-Field Tiny Studio.

This session is hosted by Jim Norris, publisher of Pro Audio Spotlight.

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