“This sound will amaze you. “ A message is currently running on the Whatsapp messaging and invite those who read it to listen to music of a new kind. A song remixed by Pentatonix, developed using 8D technology, and which is already running on a good number of platforms, such as YouTube .

Plug in your headphones!

8D Music Technology -Real Revolution or False Innovation?

If the current message is fairly viral, 8D technology, for “8 dimensions“, is not really new. Already, in 2018, a lot of content was flooding Twitter to extol the merits of this sound which gives the impression that you are the only spectator of a concert that would be played all around you.

And in some cases, the result is indeed quite impressive, when the music was specially designed for the 8D. Just like the tube of the young prodigy Billie Eilish , Ilomilo , reviewed by Pentatonix.

Come on, we invite you to put on a headset, or two earphones, so that the effect is guaranteed.

“No binaural”

The combination of several effects gives the impression that the sound comes both from your right, from your left, but also from behind. A combination of effects that gives the impression that the music you are listening to is three-dimensional.

“Technically, it looks like binaural [recording method intended to reproduce natural human sound perception via the two ears, Editor’s note] . For this to be binaural, the song would have to be thought of as such in the studio, “ explained Philippe Labroue, director of the master of music production at Upem (University of Paris-Est Marne-La-Vallée), in Les Inrockuptibles in October 2018.

The music magazine specifies that “in the case of 8D, it is the effect of” panning “, used in sound processing software, which gives it this relief effect  “.

Far from being new

“This famous 8D is not binaural sound, because the music on which some have applied these effects were recorded in a conventional manner. “
So much so that in some parts, the so-called 8D technology becomes uncomfortable with the impression that his trip to one ear to another while a DJ awkward stumbles on the effect buttons.

And the illusion is far from new, notes the British daily The Independant . “One of the first examples is a video called Virtual Barbershop that uses similar effects to make people who speak speak move around your head. “

Anyway, if the technology is not new, social networks are currently helping to democratize it, and 8D, which is more like three-dimensional music, is undoubtedly a good gateway to other innovations. sound.

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