[Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Lee
I hope you have a control where you measure "real" distance perception too. Not having a "real" control is a fault in many localisation experiments. ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

[Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Lee
You must simulate at least 2 things. At close range, you must simulate the curvature of the soundfield. This is simply proximity for 1st order and the effect is, if anything, exaggerated. see the Appendix of "Is My Decoder Ambisonic", Heller et al, AES San Francisco 1980 aka BLaH3 See Daniel

Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Lee
RFI protection is a complex & little understood subject. "Pro" mikes differ hugely in their susceptibility. There are famous mikes from famous names which are terrible. The preamp input also needs to be RFI proofed. Though I lust after a SD 788, Jim Brown says its input socket shells may not b

Re: [Sursound] Powering the DR-680

2011-04-17 Thread David Worrall
Thanks John, I see. so it plugs into the power socket. (I've just purchased a DR-680 in anticipation of getting a couple of Len's Little Marvels for field recording, so was wondering.) Neat machine! David On 18/04/2011, at 10:41 AM, John Leonard wrote: > David, > > The DR-680 is powered either

Re: [Sursound] Powering the DR-680

2011-04-17 Thread John Leonard
David, The DR-680 is powered either by eight AA cells, or via a 12v DC input from a wall-wart PSU or an external battery back. The pack I'm using provides 12 volts, so just plugs straight in. Regards, John On 18 Apr 2011, at 01:24, David Worrall wrote: > Hi John, > Does this unit plug into t

Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-17 Thread Bill de Garis
The (black) InstaSnake with the PPA's zip tied to the base of the mic stand is reasonably unobtrusive and the shielded CAT5 almost invisible (dep on the colour of the floor). Bill On 17/04/2011 2:59 p.m., Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 05:44:08PM -0400, Jascha Narveson wrote:

Re: [Sursound] Powering the DR-680

2011-04-17 Thread David Worrall
Hi John, Does this unit plug into the AC socket on the DR-680 or how? David On 18/04/2011, at 9:44 AM, John Leonard wrote: > Update - that's three 8 GB cards with four channels of phantom power turned > on and 96/24 recording settings. Now, anyone want almost six hours of traffic > recording ou

Re: [Sursound] Powering the DR-680

2011-04-17 Thread David Worrall
Any chance of making it available non-privately, Brian? David On 18/04/2011, at 10:11 AM, Brian wrote: > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110417/e37d44e8/att

Re: [Sursound] Powering the DR-680

2011-04-17 Thread Brian
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Re: [Sursound] Powering the DR-680

2011-04-17 Thread John Leonard
Update - that's three 8 GB cards with four channels of phantom power turned on and 96/24 recording settings. Now, anyone want almost six hours of traffic recording outside our flat? The battery was still providing power when I terminated the session just now, so not bad going at all. About five

Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-17 Thread Jascha Narveson
Interesting! I'd be curious to know where you get with that. What would you do about the PPAs, though? My impression is that they need to be part of the signal chain, and that sending straight 48v phantom power to the TetraMic is somehow bad. cheers, j On Apr 17, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Fons A

Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-17 Thread Ralph Glasgal
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Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 05:44:08PM -0400, Jascha Narveson wrote: > I was using the 6-foot extension cable yesterday. I didn't try it today, so > I can't comment on whether swapping out the cable today affected the RFI, or > if was just a different day and wouldn't've happened in any case. RF i

[Sursound] Powering the DR-680

2011-04-17 Thread John Leonard
Folks, I'm in the middle of doing some tests on battery-powering the Tascam DR-680, having been pretty shocked by how little time a set of Duracell Ultra AAs lasted (about an hour and a half) and am having pretty good results with the badge-engineered Tekkeon unit, which is sometimes available

Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-17 Thread Jascha Narveson
Hi, David - I was using the 6-foot extension cable yesterday. I didn't try it today, so I can't comment on whether swapping out the cable today affected the RFI, or if was just a different day and wouldn't've happened in any case. cheers, j On Apr 17, 2011, at 5:10 PM, David Worrall wrote:

Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:28:28AM +0800, Junfeng Li wrote: > I am now wondering how to subjectively evaluate distance perception in > virtual environments which might be synthesized using WFS or HOA (high-order > ambisonics). In my experiments, the sounds were synthesized at different > distances

Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-17 Thread jim moses
or experiences in distance perception > experiments? or share some references on this issue? > > Thank you so much. > > Best regards, > Junfeng > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < &g

Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-17 Thread David Worrall
Hi Jascha, What length extension cable were you using? And does anyone have any experience of the comparative differences between the the different lengths? David On 18/04/2011, at 6:30 AM, Jascha Narveson wrote: > > Hi, Bill - > > Yep - I skipped the extension cable today and just had the mic

Re: [Sursound] rf interference

2011-04-17 Thread Jascha Narveson
Hi, Bill - Yep - I skipped the extension cable today and just had the mic go from the breakout cable to the PPAs, and today's recording didn't turn up with any RFI, at least when I played back the first couple of minutes of the test recording. Hopefully the remainder will be RFI-free, as well

Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-17 Thread Markus Noisternig
Hi, Gavin Kearney et al have presented their work on "Depth perception in interactive virtual acoustic environments using higher order ambisonic soundfields" at the Ambisonics'11 symposium in Paris; the article is available online at http://ambisonics10.ircam.fr/drupal/?q=proceedings/o6 Best,

Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments

2011-04-17 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:28:28 +0800 From: Junfeng Li Subject: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments Dear list, I am now wondering how to subjectively evaluate distance perception in virtual environments which might be synthesized using WFS or HOA (high-order ambisonic

Re: [Sursound] [ANN] International Conference on Spatial Audio, Nov 10-13 2011, in Detmold, Germany

2011-04-17 Thread Joseph Anderson
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