Jeff Perrin is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, and has been performing, teaching guitar, and transcribing guitar professionally for over 25 years. Notably, Jeff is a long-time contributor of guitar transcriptions and instructional content for Guitar World magazine. A tech-savvy musician, Jeff has frequently combined his enthusiasm for music and technology to secure work producing or contributing to various multimedia music projects.
In 2014, Jeff’s combined his passion for music production and home theater audio to produced Surround Sound Ear Candy, a self-produced app for the Apple TV. This unique music app featured a collection of guitar-centric soundscapes and instrumentals, each specifically written and arranged for surround sound playback in the home theater environment. Surround Sound Ear Candy’s debut marked the introduction of true multichannel surround sound music in the Apple ecosystem, pre-dating the release of Apple Music’s spatial audio by seven years.
Jeff released Surround Speaker Check in 2015, a unique utility app for the Apple TV which offered users an easy and intuitive way to diagnose and troubleshoot their home theater system. The app received favorable coverage in both print and online media coverage, and to this day remains a favorite reference app among home theater enthusiasts.
The 2019 arrival of Dolby’s next-gen audio platform, Dolby Atmos for Music, gave Jeff the inspiration to explore new avenues for immersive audio production. In 2020, he released Vermont Sleep Sounds & Music, a mobile relaxation app featuring a variety of nature sounds and new-age music, produced for Dolby Atmos playback on iPhone speakers and also as Dolby Atmos for headphones. An Apple TV version of the app was launched in May of 2021. The production of Vermont Sleep Sounds & Music served as a “deep dive” into Dolby Atmos production where Jeff could hone his knowledge and learn the ins & outs (and gotchas!) of this new music format. The release of Vermont Sleep Sounds & Music marked another App Store milestone by becoming the first iPhone app to feature music tracks produced for Dolby Atmos.
In 2023, Jeff released the long anticipated version 2 update to Surround Speaker Check, which brings full support for Dolby Atmos and Apple spatial audio. The app greatly expands on the content of the original app, offering many new test tracks and features, including a new in-app video blog titled “Spatial Lab.” Designed to be a fun and entertaining way to showcase a users’s home theater capabilities, Spatial Lab is truly unique in that it is the one of the first video blogs produced with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack.
In late 2023, Jeff began in-house production work with a few select independent artists interested in learning how to arrange and produce music optimized for spatial audio. Production demos and video documentary of select artist sessions will be featured in future episodes of Surround Speaker Check’s in-app “Spatial Lab” video series.
Visit the Surround Speaker Check web page for more info about Jeff's latest project!