Re: [Sursound] RIP Dave Malham

2025-05-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
sound/attachments/20250529/7b31cb93/attachment.htm> ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouw

Re: [Sursound] Rode vs Ambeo as ST350 replacement?

2022-12-07 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
e only real option is Rycote's Baby Ball Gag, which isn't as quiet as a full blimp. Don't know if there's any blimps with lyres big enough to hold the entire Ambeo. I heard they match the capsules, but there is no individual equalisation/calibration. For demanding stu

[Sursound] IRT gets it: open-source libraries for object-based audio

2019-08-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

[Sursound] List of Ambisonic Software

2019-08-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
If someone here feels inclined to adopt this thing and put it in a safe a preferably maintained corner of the internet somewhere, please help yourself. All best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstech

Re: [Sursound] 2nd order A-format to B-format equations

2019-04-04 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
le contain the code to read the preset files (which are just binary OSC). Thanks for the clarification, and apologies for the misinformation. Best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bü

Re: [Sursound] 2nd order A-format to B-format equations

2019-03-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ich has been through Fons' brain optimizer or measuring a few IRs, I'd choose measuring any day :-D -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmei

Re: [Sursound] Anyone ever tried to bypass youtube/facebook360 player Ambisonics decoder?

2019-02-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
coefficients before attempting to decode. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound

Re: [Sursound] Soundfield by Rode plugin

2018-12-19 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
coincident. IIRC the Super CMIT mentioned by Chris earlier uses just this algorithm by Christof. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Comparison Sennheiser Ambeo mic vs. Rode NT-SF1?

2018-12-14 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
n comparison to the Tm, the ST450 uses a lot more power due to external preamp and capsule heating. Best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Multi-user head tracked binaural ambisonics query

2018-11-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
e yet. Will be glad to compare notes, but won't start working on it before January... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net _

Re: [Sursound] Looking for mic advice

2018-10-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
e. Re: spatial resolution, would anyone even bother with FOA mics for capturing directional impulse responses? Me :) Better the Soundfield in your hand than two Eigenmikes in the bush :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meist

Re: [Sursound] Big Pre-amps?

2018-06-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
an "seven or so". That's the number of SM58s I use on a good day, and I'm very much intrigued if slightly scared thinking of your usecase :-D -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik

Re: [Sursound] Open HeadTracking Initiative OHTI - Release announcement

2018-06-02 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Ambix to FuMa conversion

2018-04-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
probably be made a little friendlier. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound

Re: [Sursound] Core Sound Announces OctoMic - First 2nd-order Ambisonics Microphone

2018-03-28 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/27/2018 10:18 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:08:54PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: Sweet! A resounding "me too" to Stefan's question about the matrix, since you're one channel short :) Looking at the geometry, I guess you sacrifi

Re: [Sursound] Core Sound Announces OctoMic - First 2nd-order Ambisonics Microphone

2018-03-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
at fooling myself, it might just happen :-D All best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Tuinbouwstraat 180, 1097 ZB Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net __

Re: [Sursound] MEMS speakers

2018-01-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 01/20/2018 01:12 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 01/19/2018 08:04 PM, Gary Gallagher wrote: Wave field synthesis wall paper? How small does an an audio pixel have to be? The question is more like "how big can you make it?". An audio "pixel" of a square milli

Re: [Sursound] MEMS speakers

2018-01-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
eople were producing sound by heating surfaces with an extremely good heat conductivity (so its thermal cycles can be at audio frequencies). Problem there is 100% k2, as it's effectively a half-wave rectifier... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederlan

Re: [Sursound] B-format tap

2017-10-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
as a config file where you can set JACK as default, that would be even simpler. All of the above should work in Linux and OS X, not sure how to do it in windows (but I'm sure it can be done). All best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederlan

Re: [Sursound] Video + multichannel audio playback

2017-09-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
home from https://vdt-icsa.de, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-28 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
out is enough) and an appropriate Dante converter. Should be cheaper, if you have the Mac lying around, and no less robust if the hardware is otherwise ok. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 06/27/2017 01:52 PM, Augustine Leudar wrote:> Ive been the> computer with multchannel soundcard route and it is not an experience Id> like to repeat. Must be bomb/cleaner/child/adult proof, Can I ask what went wrong? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nede

Re: [Sursound] Multichannel players for permanent installations

2017-06-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
cts-live-install-joeco/ Played with it at a trade show, my impression was a very good one. Not cheap though. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), To

Re: [Sursound] Bizarre

2016-11-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 10/31/2016 12:07 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:40:50PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: Also, I think things get even funnier when you consider you don't have three pairs of omnis, for a differential receiver along each spatial axis, but rather a tetrahedron of

Re: [Sursound] Bizarre

2016-10-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
seems to have fallen off the web... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@mus

Re: [Sursound] Stand alone recorder with built-in mics

2016-10-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
let's ease off on those guys, they are among the few who actually post specs and a concept that might even work, because people have been testing it since the 70s :-D Neat packaging. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meiste

Re: [Sursound] Bizarre

2016-10-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
roll]... an omni microphone. So yeah, we've got W, so we're ambisonic :) They probably got inspired by the other loads of bollocks that get attached to VR camera rigs to enable them to be marketed as A/V solutions. Nokia and others do it, so it must work, right? -- Jörn Nettings

Re: [Sursound] PhD position in acoustic signal processing at Chalmers

2016-10-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 10/12/2016 01:31 PM, Jens Ahrens wrote: Levitation as well as haptic feedback and audible sound will be achieved using high-intensity ultrasound. I am utterly fascinated. But from a safe distance. ;) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487

Re: [Sursound] Native HOA in Pyramix DAW

2016-10-09 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ps://b-com.com/en/news/bcom-2-booths-ibc-exhibition year, saw those guys being featured in the "future zone" at IBC in amsterdam a few weeks ago. nice :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Stu

Re: [Sursound] Oktava A-format microphone?

2016-07-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 14.07.2016 19:06, len moskowitz wrote: Did you know that Rycote's Baby Ball Gag works fine with TetraMic, as well as their industry standard modular system. fwiw, from recent personal experience, i have nothing but praise for the baby ball gag. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingst

Re: [Sursound] Double MS to B-Format

2016-07-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
at the sides, and possibly excellent in the back. Not a good starting point. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Oktava A-format microphone?

2016-07-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
s one to your shortlist once it's out: http://en-de.sennheiser.com/vrmic-creatorsprogram a little gnome whispered in my ear that it's quite nice. no news on final price and release date yet, but hey... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 79374

Re: [Sursound] Using Ambisonic for a live streaming VR project

2016-06-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
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Re: [Sursound] Coefficients for Octagonal Decoder with CF

2016-05-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
with the decoder coefficients for FL/FR. i'm only partly serious, but since i'm still haven't mastered ADT, these are the approaches available to me :-D -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Stu

Re: [Sursound] Facebook spatial workstation

2016-05-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ormat, to enable head tracking on the client side. And B-format (or rather, AmbiX 1st order) is what Google has decided to use for its YouTube 360 format (aka Google Jump). -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio)

Re: [Sursound] Facebook spatial workstation

2016-05-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/24/2016 01:03 PM, Richard wrote: Limited as there’s no Windows support yet How is that a limit? /me ducks and covers... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http

Re: [Sursound] Paris AES

2016-04-29 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
sting programme - I don't think I'll be going, which is a pity - so I look forward to reading reports here. Will be there, will report, would like to meet fellow sursounders for une bière... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltung

Re: [Sursound] Storage - how do you do yours?

2016-04-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ty of a single drive. And while I'm preaching: don't use hardware RAID controllers, unless you can afford to keep one as a backup in case the first one fails. Their disk formats are not standardized, they are not necessarily compatible to anything you might be able to buy ten years

Re: [Sursound] Are mems a good choice for ambisonic microphones?

2016-04-14 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, yet interfacing it to, the outside world. Chris Woolf Hi Chris, excellent link, thanks! That explains it :) Btw, good to see you guys at Mikroforum the other week! All best, Jörn On 14-Apr-16 11:04, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 04/13/2016 04:25 PM, Marc Lavallee wrote: I'm looki

Re: [Sursound] Are mems a good choice for ambisonic microphones?

2016-04-14 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
15k? Is is possible to linearize it to get a useful response above 10k, or does it come with extreme ringing that would make it unusable? Always good to learn about up and coming new technologies, but for this one I'm dusting off and waxing my ten-foot pole... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzin

Re: [Sursound] Re-Routing VST Plugin

2016-04-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
n and matrix patch setup? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Re-Routing VST Plugin

2016-04-11 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ht now for lack of a Windows machine on the road, but I seem to remember it's pretty powerful... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___

Re: [Sursound] Orah

2016-04-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
matter is that as long as video techs add mics as an afterthought, the results are going to suck, badly. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net __

Re: [Sursound] Anyone know anything about this?

2016-04-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/08/2016 04:26 PM, Marc Lavallee wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:13:16 +0200 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: They might have very pragmatic reasons: if they know their equivalent input noise is at 30 dB SPL and their capsules barf at 120, then restricting the word length to 96 dB is a perfectly

Re: [Sursound] Anyone know anything about this?

2016-04-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/08/2016 04:26 PM, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: Multi direction binaurals?s? http://recordinghacks.com/microphones/T-H-E-Audio/BS-3D Or beamforming ? a casual glance over the site seems to suggest direct beamforming without an intermediate b-format. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11

Re: [Sursound] Anyone know anything about this?

2016-04-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/08/2016 02:10 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:00:20 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote : On 04/07/2016 08:13 PM, Marc Lavallee wrote: The FAQ says: "audio is recorded in 96 KHz/16 bit quality" I would prefer 48 KHz/24 bit. let's not discuss matters of ta

Re: [Sursound] Anyone know anything about this?

2016-04-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
d it during the april foolery, but now it must out :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursou

[Sursound] Invitation to present a technical demo / a workshop / a product presentation at the AES International Conference on Headphone Technologies, 2016, Aalborg (DK)

2016-04-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
Best Demo Award including a certificate will be presented at the conference closing ceremony. With best regards Dr. Alexander Lindau Paper’s Chair AES International Conference on Headphone Technologies, Aalborg (DK), 2016 -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 793

Re: [Sursound] Decay times and frequency response for control rooms/studios

2016-03-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
76 is quite helpful there. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Flac for FOA or amb files?

2016-03-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
Chapman) and the formulation of SN3D by Nachbar et al. (which, if combined as-is, will yield a result that is off by 1/4pi or, as Franz Zotter helpfully pointed out, ~11dB). Not terribly disturbing since it's constant, but something that needs to be fixed for internal consistency. --

Re: [Sursound] Static stereo source in rotating soundfield, possible?

2016-03-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/26/2016 05:22 PM, Albert Leusink wrote: Jörn Nettingsmeier writes: i don't see why you would want to do that. the effect will be quite strange... why would any part of the sound mix stay constant wrt head position? the effect would be a bit like rotating the music bed in the c

Re: [Sursound] Static stereo source in rotating soundfield, possible?

2016-03-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
only way to get two rotationally invariant signals into the stream is a cardioid pointing up and another one pointing down. if your player ignores head tilt, the result is like summing to mono and mixing into W. if it supports head tilt, the result is likely even worse :-D -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lo

Re: [Sursound] Furse-Malham to ACN conversion

2016-03-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ker and the speaker under test. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail

Re: [Sursound] Furse-Malham to ACN conversion

2016-03-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
facing different formats. All best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Su

[Sursound] expressing HRTFs in spherical harmonics

2016-02-25 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 01/27/2016 01:56 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 01/26/2016 11:05 PM, Politis Archontis wrote: Hi Jorn, yes that is correct. I think however that the virtual loudspeaker stage is unnecessary. It is equivalent if you expand the left and right HRTFs into spherical harmonics and multiply

Re: [Sursound] Inventory of Ambisonics plug-ins/tools on OS X

2016-02-25 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
rnals Pure Data HoaLibrary: http://www.mshparisnord.fr/hoalibrary/ Plogue Bidule Aristotel Digenis: http://www.digenis.co.uk/?page_id=59 i've added AAT to the list on wikipedia, i think the rest is there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ambisonic_Software -- Jörn Nettingsmeier L

Re: [Sursound] AmbiExplorer: no sensors on CM13.0 (Android 6.0 Marshmallow)

2016-02-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 01/08/2016 11:25 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: Hi Hector, hi everone, after a botched mobile phone upgrade (I'm using CM on my Samsung S4 and update frequently), I was forced to redo the phone from scratch, taking the opportunity to move to CM13.0, which is based on Android 6.

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Decoder Design Resources

2016-02-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
e... so if anyone is interested, just drop an email. can't speak for anyone else here, but personally i would very much like to be informed about this project, and it seems perfectly on topic for sursound. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 79374

Re: [Sursound] Different usages, different spaces, different decoders?

2016-02-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
nce on the wikipedia page on ambisonic listening rigs. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursoun

Re: [Sursound] Different usages, different spaces, different decoders?

2016-02-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ponses would be the most important piece of the puzzle. maybe we should just sweep each speaker into a tetramic in the sweet spot as a start. with careful analysis, that should contain a lot of information about the speakers and the room. we get free-field response above a few hundred hertz, and

Re: [Sursound] Wireless Solutions for Binaural Event

2016-02-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
g is like, with a distance between the legs of the u that are a lot longer than the wavelength? i would expect pretty fancy interference patters with loads of complete nulls all over the place. or is there some sort of near-field effect that makes the effect of parallel lengths of wire ne

Re: [Sursound] Wireless Solutions for Binaural Event

2016-02-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ttendants start them before handing them to the audience. Another solution might be IR-based systems as used by interpreters. They are quite resilient and easily handle multiple emitters. I don't know what their audio bandwidth is, however. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Es

Re: [Sursound] Wireless Solutions for Binaural Event

2016-02-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
transmitter working on a given frequency. if you wanted to hand over to another, it would have to work on a different frequency, and the receivers would have to support that kind of feature. I don't know any headphones that can do it. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +4

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Decoder Design Resources

2016-02-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
fy approx dates, subject lines, or keywords to search on? Alternatively, please repeat the information here, as it could be of interest. IIRC, one of the BLaH papers also cites listening tests that have found the hexagon to be preferred over square or rectangular setups for first order.

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic Decoder Design Resources

2016-02-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ut unless you really need extremely high horizontal resolution for research purposes or a truly humongous listening area, a better use for all those speakers would be to make a more or less uniform 3D rig. gets you a nice dodecahedron for full third-order all around. best, jörn -- Jörn

[Sursound] Would you like to see Ambisonics at the VDT International Convention 2016?

2016-02-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
itors, 180 exhibitors and more than 200 paper presentations in the past. And the more interest we see, the more resources we can justify to put into a nice Ambi rig. Disclaimer: I'm a member of VDT and work for them as technical director of the conference. Best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier

Re: [Sursound] Advice on practicalities of 16-speaker half-spherical arrangement

2016-02-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ertices) if you want full-sphere, but then only for 2nd order. 3-6-3 can also be nice and simpler to set up. the big advantage of an icosahedron is that most decoders have a suitable setup by default. for hemispheres, you'd need to compute it yourself. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr.

Re: [Sursound] Soundfield ST350

2016-02-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
7;c color-coded for weight). the length of the microphone body including connector and curved cable is about 30 cm (see photo sent in private that's probably not going to make it to the list). best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177

Re: [Sursound] Never do electronic in public.

2016-02-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 02/03/2016 02:48 PM, florian.came...@orf.at wrote: (But we shouldn't divert from the original topic.) no, that is frowned upon here :-D thanks for the insightful comments, i was wondering the same... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Me

Re: [Sursound] Never do electronic in public.

2016-02-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
cpu, and waste storage). in any case, you can make use of the full length of the hrtfs. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net _

Re: [Sursound] Never do math in public, or my take on explaining B-format to binaural

2016-01-28 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
that inside the black box, some very-high-order stuff might be going on. if by quadrupling the processing power, i can get a robust 5% improvement in the rendering of first-order material, i wouldn't hesitate a second, except in very special cases. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11,

Re: [Sursound] Never do math in public, or my take on explaining B-format to binaural

2016-01-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ing months, hopefully with the help of Rozenn Nicol's book. Meanwhile, forgive the man without the heavy ion accelerator that this problem did indeed look like a nail :-D -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio)

Re: [Sursound] Never do math in public, or my take on explaining B-format to binaural

2016-01-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
(more than 200!). Well worth reading (35$ for AES members). i've been eyeing this one for a while (it's advertised in every new issue of the AES journal...), but your recommendation finally made me order it. thanks! -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 1

[Sursound] Never do math in public, or my take on explaining B-format to binaural

2016-01-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
s the whole upper body moves, rather than just the neck, but I guess it's a start. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

[Sursound] Submissions now accepted for 2016 AES International Conference on Headphone Technology

2016-01-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
- Leibnitz University, Hannover Papers Co-Chairs 2016hp_pap...@aes.org <mailto:2016hp_pap...@aes.org> -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT

Re: [Sursound] YouTube adds ambisonics support

2016-01-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
pedia.org/wiki/Mixed-order_Ambisonics#Complete_mixed-order_sets_.28.23H.23V.29 However, I don't know of anybody who has experience with decoding such sets. Fons's decoder can handle that, and iirc it comes with examples. This scheme is particularly useful for stacked rings. -- Jörn

[Sursound] AmbiExplorer: no sensors on CM13.0 (Android 6.0 Marshmallow)

2016-01-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ce to try AE on 6.0 on a Samsung? I know this is quite bleeding edge and CM is pretty shaky still, too. So no ill feelings if there's no immediate fix. Maybe I should just go into version junkie detox and stick with what works :-D All best, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingst

Re: [Sursound] Sennheiser Easy 3D Recording and Modeling

2016-01-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
-3d-audio-space-with-amb.html Too bad they kicked the Eigenmike guys out :-D Those who do not understand spherical harmonics have to reinvent it... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http

Re: [Sursound] The Mike Skeet Collection

2015-12-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
could do it, but then the question is who's going to dig through the archives and ship the stuff? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarve

Re: [Sursound] Wireless speakers

2015-12-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
thing yet (i'm not using it for anything critical), and it sure isn't great but usable, and for the price who'd complain. one of those would enable you to run third-order horizontal ambisonics over wireless without jumping through fiery hoops. all best, jörn -- Jö

Re: [Sursound] vertical precendence and summing localisation (wallis and lee 2015)

2015-12-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
find improved ways to reproduce surround sound (including 3D audio) via headphones and loudspeakers. Thanks for pointing this out. :-] -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http:

Re: [Sursound] vertical precendence and summing localisation (wallis and lee 2015)

2015-12-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
mbisonic panner :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/m

Re: [Sursound] vertical precendence and summing localisation (wallis and lee 2015)

2015-12-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 12/09/2015 03:00 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: i've attached the paper, since it is open access. well, i meant to, but apparently the attachment got eaten. here it is: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=18040 -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +4

[Sursound] vertical precendence and summing localisation (wallis and lee 2015)

2015-12-09 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
here else. 3rd-order ambisonic vertical localisation seems uniformly so-so throughout the elevation range, which to me is preferrable... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdw

Re: [Sursound] OZO? vertical precedence

2015-12-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ing! a quick glance makes me very curious, i'm looking forward to reading this tonight. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net __

Re: [Sursound] OZO? vertical precedence

2015-12-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
d lead-lag pair is necessary for localization dominance to occur when the lag is spatially separated from the lead. i can't imagine what this means. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungste

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-07 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 12/06/2015 11:46 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 12/05/2015 05:26 PM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: I wrote: "8-channel ... hedgehog", which is/was already some form of educated guess. See: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de/HW/TMT2012_3DNaturalRecording_Theile_Wittek_2012_11.pdf, pg.

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-07 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
nless you bend your neck to the sides and then up/down. this is a very unnatural movement. i do use it from time to time to check for errors in complex loudspeaker systems, but it usually results in bystanders asking if i'm ok. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Te

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-07 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
nimize crosstalk and ensure well-defined decorrelation between speaker channels, not isotropy. it is intended to produce ambience only. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (B

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 12/06/2015 07:44 PM, Kees de Visser wrote: On 6 Dec 2015, at 11:46, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: btw, since you're quoting this very interesting article, it has been partly superseded by recent research of lee at al. at huddersfield (see latest JAES), who found that there is _no_ ver

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 12/06/2015 06:14 PM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: btw, since you're quoting this very interesting article, it has been partly superseded by recent research of lee at al. at huddersfield (see latest JAES), who found that there is _no_ vertical precendence effec

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
rtically spaced loudspeakers do not contribute to localisation in any way. helmut is aware of this and has presented a much more compact 8-channel mic array at ICSA 2015 in graz, where the top and bottom mics are practically coincident. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel.

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ng can possibly have. For that price, let's hope they see the light and partner with mh or Duraiswami and deliver something that really kicks butt in the audio domain... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Stu

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
confusion. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailma

Re: [Sursound] OZO?

2015-12-04 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 12/04/2015 08:56 PM, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: http://www.williamsonic.com/DipoleMic/ as often I am too fast to post :-) I found the article again on a practical differential microphone for DIY. thanks, excellent article! -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177

Re: [Sursound] OT: Opportunities for Study and Funding at the University of Birmingham / BEAST

2015-11-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
). :-D -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Advice on new loudspeaker array... Genelec 8010 speakers?

2015-10-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
ne, I got to play with it at ICSA. Works. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.v

Re: [Sursound] SQ QUAD

2015-10-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 10/21/2015 03:14 PM, Richard wrote: That is very true, and there never will be. I have a marvellous algorithm that will restore old shellacs to their original 10-octaves full surround beauty, but since the world is what it is, I'm not going to show it to you. -- Jörn Nettings

Re: [Sursound] ADAT vs. MADI

2015-10-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
t since I'm also using it in the studio, the D-SUBs actually quicker to connect than individual XLRs. And the new firmware comes with a complete matrix router that spans all analog and MADI ins and outs. Quite handy, and you can run it MIDI-over-MADI, so you don't need an extra cable t

[Sursound] spherical mic array order balancing

2015-10-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
sible to put some fake LF borrowed from the lower orders into the higher ones, so that the spectrum is flat for each order, with the understanding that the directional information will be wrong... But I'm not sure I'm seeing all the implications of this... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzin

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