Red Amp Audio Unveils Virginia’s First Professional Dolby Atmos Music Studio

Red Amp Audio is excited to be the first commercial music and audio post-production facility to bring Dolby Atmos and immersive audio mixing to Virginia.

Based on placing audio elements in a three-dimensional space, Dolby Atmos provides a unique immersive audio experience that empowers creators to produce content not previously possible in stereo. Red Amp Audio’s new immersive mix room was designed to precise specifications and has been tuned and calibrated by Dolby Laboratories. It features a 7.1.4 monitoring layout giving content creators access to seven speakers in horizontal plane, four overheads, and one for low frequency effect reproduction.

From cell phones and tablets to soundbars and home theater receivers, Dolby Atmos is now widely available to consumers worldwide. With increasing demand for immersive audio post-production, the upgraded suite also enables mixing of commercials and long form content for broadcast as well as for delivery to the major streaming services.

“Dolby Atmos Music is an immersive music experience that adds more space, clarity, and depth to your music. Instead of just hearing your music – with Dolby, it feels like you’re inside the song” (Dolby).

Dolby Atmos Music’s new technology has reinvented how audio is created and experienced by allowing you to create a fully encompassing soundstage where audio is perceived as coming from all around you. It transports you into a spatial sound experience that draws you in deeper, so you hear more and feel more. It is music heard like never before.

The Dolby Atmos Music format is being heralded as important an innovation as the advent of stereo recordings in the 1960s or the dramatic results of television’s transition from black and white to color.

“I think it’s one of the most significant innovations, if not the most significant innovation of the last few decades in the terms of music experience,” John Couling, Dolby Laboratories.

Our ears can experience sound in all distances and directions as well as differentiate between tone, pitch, volume and location. Historically, sound for broadcasting has been produced two-dimensionally, but we hear sound three-dimensionally. Dolby Atmos Music is a 3-D immersive audio experience and allows sounds to be precisely placed, adding dimensionality to create a full audio atmosphere.

The 2023 Grammys Record of the Year, Lizzo's "About Damn Time," was mixed in Dolby Atmos. Many of the major music streaming services are now offering spatial music playlists with more immersive versions of some of your favorite songs.

Dolby Atmos Music allows people to connect with their favorite music in a whole new way. Listeners can discover hidden details and subtleties with unparalleled clarity. Whether it’s a complex harmony of instruments placed around a listener, a legendary guitar solo that fills a room, a massive bass drop that washes over the audience, or the subtle breath a singer takes, Dolby Atmos gives music more space and the freedom to unleash every detail and emotion as the artist intended.

Past audio evolutions required consumers to acquire specific playback systems but most people already have access to Dolby Atmos Music technology via supported headphones and playback devices like a new cell phone, tablet, computer or TV and automobile companies are starting to add the new technology to their luxury models.

Who is Red Amp Audio?

The Team

We love music. We love audio. We are professional musicians and audio geeks. We love to share our studio & toys (aka instruments & gear) with other audio lovers. We know great sounding audio makes a huge difference in how people experience content. We know how to create great audio.

Jody Boyd Marna Bales Andrew Uvarov

Margaret Chong Billy Bacci Jay Smack

The Studio

Red Amp Audio is a full service State-of-the-Art Recording Studio located in downtown Richmond Virginia, specializing in Music Production & Composition, Voice & Music Recording, Mixing for Music, Video Content, Independent Films and offers Podcasting Services. The studio has three audio recording / mix suites (one is a Dolby Atmos Suite), a two story tracking room, an isolation booth and a podcast suite.

Red Amp Audio is a TEC (Technical Excellence & Creativity) Award nominated studio for outstanding creative achievement in acoustics/facility design and was featured on the cover of Mix Magazine's Studio Design Class of 2010. Red Amp was designed by award-winning architect Peter Grueneisen, FAIA (DreamWorks Animation, Dave Matthews Band, Sony Music Japan, Hans Zimmer).

The Projects

Here is a small sampling of some of our work.