Recommended Practice

The CEDIA/CTA-RP22 Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice was without a doubt the single biggest and most profound project I've ever been involved with. It resulted from over 2 years of development by an extraordinary working group of experts chaired by Peter Aylett, CEDIA Fellow and partner at Officina Acustica.

Project Directive

Turn the working draft (docx & equivalent Pages files) into a completed document. This involved:

• Sorting content order according to users' system design workflows

• Arranging content into sections and subsections for logical separation and flow

• Comprehensively copy edit to give the entire document one "voice"

• Cross-checked all standards references to ensure accuracy and latest versions

• Created most diagrams as eps files with consistency of style and color palette throughout

• Completed layout of sections and diagrams for readability and contextual clarity

• Created section title pages as separate layers in the pdf version for print-friendly output (mitigate overuse of ink when printing full color block pages)

• Apps used: Adobe InDesign for the main document, Illustrator for all eps files, Photoshop for other images

This was all done to prioritize the reader, ensuring the intent of the authors was clearly communicated. As for graphic design, I'd already created the look and feel of CEDIA/CTA recommended practices with RP28 a couple of years earlier, which then served as a template for RP22 (albeit with some further improvements). Upon its launch at CEDIA Expo 2023, RP22 quickly became the most downloaded document that CEDIA has ever produced. And not just by a bit — many multiples more. The deeply knowledgeable working group that were so generous in sharing their time and expertise deserve the credit for what is an incredible document, but I am proud for doing my part in doing their efforts justice with the finished product. CEDIA/CTA-RP22 Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice is available to download from CEDIA: https://cedia.org/en-au/smart-home-professionals/advocacy/standards-best-practices/immersive-audio-design-excellence/