129 - Dolby Atmos for Podcasts

NOTE: This episode features clips mixed in Dolby Atmos®. For best results, please listen to this episode with headphones!

Podcasts have exploded in popularity in recent years, and creators have been exploring new ways to create fully-immersive experiences for their listeners. In today’s episode, we speak with a few of the companies that are on the cutting-edge of crafting a truly cinematic experience for audio storytelling in podcasts, from QCODE and Wondery, the latter of which is now delivering podcasts in Dolby Atmos® — for a next-level listening experience — via the Wondery+ app. This innovation has made it possible to drop a listener directly into the world of a podcast like never before.

“The beautiful thing about mixing in Atmos is you're really designing in a spatial environment. Our team is able to think about how objects sound around the listener in a spatial environment that's additive to the storytelling. So it's not just about that mono experience, let alone stereo. But really, we try to be thoughtful about how we use the technology to enhance the storytelling and immerse a listener into the actual world of the story.”

— Steve Wilson, Chief Strategy Officer, QCODE

Throughout this episode, we have included several clips of recent shows, which were all mixed in Dolby Atmos®, so you can experience just how immersive this technology can make a podcast feel. So, please, if you can, listen to this episode with headphones.

How to listen to podcasts in Dolby Atmos®.

Check out the free trial of Wondery+.

FEATURED in today’s episode, all of these podcasts were mixed in Dolby Atmos®:

- “Electric Easy”

- “Jacked”

- “Listening In”

- “Soft Voice”

- “Who Killed Daphne?”

Hollywood Reporter - “Wondery to Release Podcasts in Dolby Atmos Format,” by Carolyn Giardina.

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