Mixing 3D mulit-channel, spatial audio to a 360 Video brings the whole experience of VR to life. Audio Head Tracking enrols the user into believing they are really there and not just wearing a VR mask sitting on a chair.

This audio head tracking is key to making VR and 360º video work and believable.

Using the latest audio technology, we can mix your immersive audio or take your stereo mix and transform it into a 3D wonder world. Our experience of sound design and audio mixing adds a greater dimension to any 3D mix. We can mix to all the latest formats including AmbiX, FuMa, Quad Binaural, Facebook 360 Video, You Tube 360 or provide you with an 8 channel audio file for embedding into your app or game player. Once rendered the mix will provide 100% accurate head tracking and add authentic realism to any 360 video.

We also provide real, end user monitoring experiences with an Oculus Rift VR mask. This enables you to see the finished product how it was designed to be seen and experienced.

We’re dedicated to exploring this immersive technology and ways of how it can be used to enhance the users experience.

Please contact Rich Evans on rich@syncbox.tv to discuss any 360 Spatial Audio or VR audio project. We’d love to hear about your project and discuss how we can work together to provide something truly outstanding.

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Paul Sinha’s History Revision

September 13, 2016

Paul Sinha picks up Best Radio Comedy at 55th Rose D’Or

The best in TV, radio and online entertainment has been honoured at the 55th Rose d’Or Awards in Berlin. Programmes from Sweden, Ireland and the United Kingdom were awarded trophies in 11 categories including for the first time in 2016, Drama and Audio Stories.

Among the winners were the BBC’s River which won Best TV Drama and SVT’s Eurovision Song Contest 2016 which took home the prize for Best TV Entertainment. The full list of winners is below. British comedy legend John Cleese was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry.

Paul Sinha looks back on history in his very own way and corrects any assumed knowledge that we may have about history and what is generally perceived to be correct. Paul does this in a very entertaining and informative way. Clever and funny… Not too be missed.

Winner of this years Best Radio Comedy went to Paul Sinha’s History Revison. Written by the man himself, produced by Ed Morrish and edited by Rich Evans @ Syncbox Post.

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Josh Series 2

Josh series 2 is back with 6 brand new episodes brand for BBC Three, written by Josh Widdicombe and Tom Craine. The 6 x 30 series produced by BBC Studios and directed by David Schneider, is on BBC Three on this September.
After a hugely successful first series, the dis-functional flat mates, Josh (Josh Widdecombe), Owen (Elis James), Kate (Beattie Edmondson) and their relentlessly annoying landlord Geoff (Jack Dee), return for 6 more embarrassing and sometimes extremely uncomfortable but always extremely funny episodes.

Frustrated, native and reliably grumpy, Josh fumbles his way through life being help or hindered by his flatmates. This series sees him tackle a cougar, a sex blogger, a pirate, an open relationship, a dope smoking ex-con and a slighlyt mis-understood obsession.

Josh Widdicombe recently cropped up in a BBC documentary about sitcoms saying how much he loved the genre. And he clearly adores the classics because the second series of his flatshare sitcom channels a number of milestone comedies from the past four decades.

In the first episode there were hints of everything from Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? and Men Behaving Badly to Seinfeld. Josh has split up with his girlfriend but flatmat Owen has a solution – he is dating a cougar and she has a friend for Josh. Meanwhile fellow flatmate Kate hits “reply all” by mistake and upsets their landlord Geoff so has to win him over. Watch out for the double entendre of Black Pudding.

Watch out for series 3 next year…
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Production Company: BBC Comedy
Director:                         David Schneider
Producer:                        Simon Mayhew-Archer
Dubbing Mixer:             Rich Evans
Written by:                     Josh Widdecombe and Tom Craine

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Josh is the brand new sitcom for BBC Three, written by Josh Widdicombe and Tom Craine. The 6×30 series made by BBC Comedy and directed by David Schneider, will air on BBC Three on Wednesday 11th November.
After a hugely successful pilot for the BBC’s Comedy Feed pilot initiative last year, this much-anticipated debut series sees the return of Josh, his flatmates Kate (Beattie Edmondson) and Owen (Elis James), and their relentlessly annoying landlord Geoff (Jack Dee).

Frustrated, single and reliably grumpy, Josh feels completely stuck in his life with Kate and Owen, and as the series progresses, things only go from bad to worse. From a disastrous pool party, via public humiliation at his own birthday, to being toyed with by his high school crush, this baby-faced Victor Meldrew routinely fails to be left alone to find the quiet life he craves.

Meanwhile, Josh’s flatmate – and childhood best friend – Kate finds life equally difficult. An enforced holiday to Clacton-on-Sea reveals a rather unpleasant competitive streak, and a disastrous date leads Kate to discover a hugely embarrassing reputation she gained at university.

Owen, however, continues to drift along happy as Larry. He is a bundle of charm, with a never-ending fountain of anecdotes about nights spent with minor celebrities, from meeting Tasmin Archer in fancy dress to watching Shaggy wee in a pool. But as different as they are, they all feel equally tormented by their strange, fusty landlord Geoff, as he inflicts himself upon their lives at every turn. Geoff is a man of many ideas and all of them are bad.

Complementing this excellent cast are some tremendous star cameos, including Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, French And Saunders, The Comic Strip Presents) who makes an appearance as Kate’s mother and becomes the object of Geoff’s affections. Jack Dee and Jennifer Saunders in an (unrequited) love story – it is the TV event Britain has been crying out for! Elsewhere, Romesh Ranganathan (Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week), James Acaster (Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats) and Paul and Barry Chuckle (your childhood) all make an appearance.

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Production Company: BBC Comedy
Director:                         David Schneider
Producer:                        Simon Mayhew-Archer
Dubbing Mixer:             Rich Evans
Written by:                     Josh Widdecombe and Tom Craine

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We are very chuffed to have won Best Sound Design at The Japan Wildlife Film Festival for our work on Mahout:The Great Elephant Walk. This is the second award for the feature length documentary produced and directed by James Dartnall and Jack Wylson. In 2014 the film won Best Film at The London Independent Film Festival.

Narrated by Stephen Fry the film follows the extraordinary story of a London banker who swaps life in the city for running a wildlife lodge in Nepal. When his father – a pioneer of ecotourism and founder of the lodge – dies unexpectedly, Tim finds himself leading a party of elephants and their mahouts on an epic journey. When James Dartnall heard about the story of the elephants needing to be walked half way across the country on foot, he had the idea to photograph and film the journey. In September 2012, James Dartnall and Jack Wylson set off with Tim and the elephants, and began to document this remarkable story. Filmed over 5 gruelling weeks, they faced incredibly challenging conditions, from monsoon rain to intense heat and dust. A project that the entire team has taken to their hearts.

To involve the viewer in the journey, the sound was kept very natural and realistic to enhance the viewer’s perception of being surrounded by the amazing sounds of the jungle and the Elephants and their Mahouts. A lot of research was done to ensure that any additional sounds were indigenous to Nepal, right down to the correct bird calls and the make and model of the millions of mopeds in and around the cities. The overall soundscape envelopes the viewer and allows them to think they are riding on the elephants back, crashing through the jungle and navigating the incredibly noisy and busy cities.

With a stunning sound track by Kevin Pollard the whole film feels like one coherent journey.

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Production Company: Pink Banana Studios
Director/Producer: James Dartnall
Director/Producer: Jack Wylson
Sound Designer: Rich Evans
Composer: Kev Pollard

Best Sound Design Japan Wildlife Film Festival

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At this years Radio Production Awards we were honoured to pick up Best Sound Designer 2014.

This what the judges said…

“Richard’s work greatly contributes to the drama and comedy of each scene without being gratuitous, fussy or ever upstaging the performances. He creates believable spaces quickly and despite the obvious temptation to ham things up Richard holds his nerve and plays it straight to delightful comic effect.”

All the submitted work was produced by BBC Radio Comedy for BBC Radio 4.

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Radio Production Awards 2014 Best Sound Designer

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No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show takes down every programme, institution and politician you hold dear.

Neil Nunes causes an earthquake, Ed Milliband gets catapulted through a trapdoor on the Today Programme, Neil Farrage answers questions on Gardener’s Question Time, Michael Portillo flies to Mars to get away from Diane Abbot and Idris Elba pitches an idea to make Rainbow:The Movie, just some of the crazy things that happen on Deadringers and maybe we wish they would happen in real life too.

Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis MacLeod, Debra Stevenson.

Producer: Bill Dare
Editor: Rich Evans

Deadringers BBC Radio 4

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Rich Evans and Nik Hayley have composed all the music for a new show on CBBCx.

The Dog Ate My Homework is the school-based panel show that lets you down, lets CBBC down, and above all, lets itself down…

BAFTA-nominated comedian and CBBC favourite Iain Stirling hosts the series that throws out the text books along with the rule book, and turns everything about school on its head.

On every show there are two teams, featuring comedians, celebrity guests and a junior sidekick. Both teams face a mischievous mix of tongue-in-cheek comedy, off-the-wall questions, nonsensical studio games, and slapstick challenges.

The Dog Ate My Homework is the show that finally puts the cool back into school.

Produced by Richard Grocock for BBC Scotland. All music by Rich Evans and Nik Haley @ Syncbox Post.

Syncbox Composes Music for new CBBC Show

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