Binaural Audio

Audio tips

Please use the best settings you can, minimum recommended settings are 16bit 44.100khz WAV.

Switch off any limiters on your recorder

Do not use auto levels

Do not use standard recording techniques!

Do not adjust the preamp on your recording device to boost sound levels, it will destroy the binaural effect and add extra noise that could spoil your recordings (esp the SR3D Basic for white noise levels if set too high).

Make sure that meter levels only bob up and down now and then when in a quiet room, if the meters show above the minimum all the time it's too high, turn it down to the minimum deflection so that it occasionally bobs.

Do not use MP3 format it will remove some aspects of the "HRTF" (head related transfer function) information and be less effective.

For YouTube I use 24bit or 16bit 96khz WAV recordings and export the audio with AAC 96khz.

For HD sound, please use 24bit 192khz WAV (non video)

Uploading to YouTube/soundcloud with content?

Please check that your authoring software is using the best audio quality settings it can use for exporting, using WAV or AAC 96khz, or just use the same audio settings that your recorder used for the recording.

For the very best binaural audio experience try not to use equalizers or normalising.


Playback is just as important as the recording technique, you must keep the levels of audio to a level of what it would be if you were there.

For example if you were to remove your headphones the sound would be the same level as what it was while monitoring the recordings, you should not be able to tell any difference, if it's louder you need to be sure that it is either the recording level, or the headphone volume of the recorder, once you have established the correct levels in both the recording level and the headphone volume level of your recording then the device is calibrated correctly.

Switch off any effects on your computers sound card (check playback properties).

Some listeners may think that the levels are a little low as they maybe used to standard recording/listening habits. When you have realised this technique you will experience very effective binaural recordings.

Still having trouble? please email us info@sr3d.co.uk