Jim Rondinelli and JJ Johnston
Jim Rondinelli and JJ Johnston from Immersion Networks stop by the podcast to give LP a lesson in immersive audio. They take a step back and talk through sound file innovation over the years (JJ was one of the folks involved with inventing the MP3.)
Immersion Networks is a company that creates software and hardware to improve the human listening experience. Founded in 2014 by industry-leading audio experts and engineers, the privately held company operates out of a purpose-built facility in Redmond, Washington.
The company’s founders are responsible for hundreds of patents that have been instrumental in the evolution of audio technology. If you listen to music on a modern device, you are using technology created by one of our founders.
Their mission is simple: to reframe the human listening experience.
One of their key products is mix³ (pronounced “mixcubed”), the first 3D audio mixing platform available to everyone — podcasters, content creators, producers, artists, and engineers — that lets them transform sound files into lush, intimate, headphone-ready mixes. These mixes can be appreciated without special hardware and distributed through streaming services or shared as a regular stereo file.
Learn more about Immersion Networks.
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Jim Rondinelli
President, Immersion Networks
Jim has spent his life at the intersection of music and technology. As a Producer and Engineer, he was awarded multiple Gold and Platinum awards for his work with top artists like Wilco, Weezer, Everclear, Matthew Sweet and The Jayhawks. The first Global Head of Digital for Warner/Chappell Music Publishing, he is considered one of the world’s foremost experts in content licensing for music services. Jim’s “second career” in technology has yielded one IPO (MP3.com) and three acquisitions (Packet Video, Rdio, and Slacker).
James D. (JJ) Johnston
Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks
JJ is Chief Scientist of Immersion Networks. He has a long and distinguished career in electrical engineering, audio science, and digital signal processing. His research and product invention spans speech processing, hearing and psychoacoustics, perceptual encoding, image and video coding, and spatial audio creation. He was one of the first investigators in the field of perceptual audio coding, one of the inventors and standardizers of MPEG 1/2 audio Layer 3 and MPEG-2 AAC. Most recently, he has been working in the area of auditory perception and ways to expand the limited sense of realism available in standard audio playback for both captured and synthetic performances. JJ is named in over 100 patents for his work in perceptual audio and digital signal processing.
Johnston worked for AT&T Bell Labs and its successor AT&T Labs Research for two and a half decades. He later worked at Microsoft and then Neural Audio and its successors before joining IN. He is an IEEE Fellow, AES Fellow, AES technical papers chair for over two decades, NJ Inventor of the Year, AT&T Technical Medalist and Standards Awardee, and co-recipient of the IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award. In 2006, he received the James L. Flanagan Signal Processing Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and presented the 2012 Heyser Lecture at the AES 133rd Convention: Audio, Radio, Acoustics and Signal Processing: The Way Forward. In 2021, along with two colleagues, Johnston was awarded the Industrial Innovation Award by the Signal Processing Society “for contributions to the standardization … Read More
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