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Founded in 1994 by musician and sound designer Michael Godfrey, Rising Sun Productions Ltd. is a specialty audio production and post-production shop dedicated to achieving the most realistic listening experience from recorded audio. While working on numerous albums and providing sound design services for film and television projects, Michael was driven by a memory of listening to a Pink Floyd Album over headphones in the 1990s while walking on a beach in IOS, Greece. The listening experience was so real that at one point he actually thought someone was walking up from behind him. He turned around only to realize that it was the realism of this three-dimensional, binaural recording that transported him into a new realm. How powerful! Michael soon began experiments with a binaural microphone system in a dummy head to emulate how the human head receives and experiences audio signals. By this time, multi-channel audio systems were becoming more popular to professionals and to consumers. The growth of home theater further inspired Mike s experiments because now people everywhere could be transported into a 3D listening experience from pre-recorded audio in their very own living rooms. In late 1994, Mike developed initial designs for a prototype Holophone surround sound microphone system, which included ten microphones arranged in an enclosure roughly the size and shape of a Nerf football...

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