Abstract: A system and method for creating a synchronized audio signal having a variable sound perspective from a plurality of audio signals captured by mobile recording devices. The system includes an audio source for producing an audio signal, mobile devices for capturing the audio signal as audio recordings. The mobile devices are connected to a server via a communications network. The audio recordings are transmitted from the mobile devices to the server over the communications network. The server receives the audio recordings and saves them to a database. A mixer accesses the saved audio recordings and then aligns, mixes, and modifies them according to mixing instructions to produce a synchronized recording having a first sound perspective. A user may provide input to the server to generate new mixing instructions, and the mixer generates an updated synchronized recording having a second sound perspective in response to those new mixing instructions.

Abstract: A monitoring device is provided herein. The device is configured to reside within an instrument, or within a case for a stringed instrument or other environmentally sensitive object. The device includes a series of detectors. These may be a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor, a motion sensor, a magnetometer and a geo-location sensor. The device also includes a micro-processor that is configured to process signals received from the detectors and create a history of environmental events experienced by the instrument. In one aspect, the micro-processor initiates a signal in the event that a threshold event occurs. A method of monitoring environmental conditions with a case is also provided. Detected conditions are correlated to time and location, and may be analyzed using a remote user processor such as a tablet.