Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-19 Thread Dave Malham
riaensen > > > Sent: 04 June 2013 10:54 > > > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > > > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones > > [...] > > > Imagine a circular array. For a single distant source, AMB > > > will use only two or three speakers, those clos

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 01:52:57AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > On 2013-06-03, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > >Note the sqrt(k) factor in eq.(4). This the 3dB/oct factor I > >mentioned before. It arises because in the derivation of the > >driving function vertical line sources are replaced by point

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-06-03, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Note the sqrt(k) factor in eq.(4). This the 3dB/oct factor I mentioned before. It arises because in the derivation of the driving function vertical line sources are replaced by point sources, and NOT because the resulting line array of secondary sources be

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 08:10:59PM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > >2) Will using some filters help to achieve this ? > > Here I'm not too sure yet. If you look at e.g. > dafx04.na.infn.it/WebProc/Proc/P_250.pdf‎ , on the WFS > side they seem to be including frequency dependent terms for > the cor

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread Michael Chapman
Sampo wrote: > > Fons's is a much more elegant way of looking at this than mine was. > -- And mine ... also correct... ;-(> Thanks for the intervention, Fons. Michael ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-06-03, Fons Adriaensen wrote: No surprise, a lot of issues got mixed up in this thread: Agreed. 2) Will using some filters help to achieve this ? Here I'm not too sure yet. If you look at e.g. dafx04.na.infn.it/WebProc/Proc/P_250.pdf‎ , on the WFS side they seem to be including f

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 08:10:29PM +0530, umashankar manthravadi wrote: > I am a little confused by this discussion. No surprise, a lot of issues got mixed up in this thread: 1) Can a 2D (horizontal-only) playback system generate plane waves (that do not attenuate with distance) ? 2) Will us

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread umashankar manthravadi
000 > From: f...@linuxaudio.org > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:51:40AM -, Michael Chapman wrote: > > > -If you want a horizontal W (say 'W(2)') > > -if you are happy to have this 'omni

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:51:40AM -, Michael Chapman wrote: > -If you want a horizontal W (say 'W(2)') > -if you are happy to have this 'omni' as having a cardiod polar pattern > (in the vertical plane) -which surely one wants to match the vertical > polar patterns of X and Y (???) > then: >

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 11:14:24PM -0400, David Pickett wrote: > Perhaps I was not clear. Take 2: > > It seems to me that Sampo claimed that the omni from a double > capsule mic is not the same as the W signal obtained by processing > the ouputs of the four mics in the A-format tetrahedral arra

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread Michael Chapman
David Pickett wrote: > > Perhaps I was not clear. Take 2: > > It seems to me that Sampo claimed that the omni from a double capsule > mic is not the same as the W signal obtained by processing the ouputs > of the four mics in the A-format tetrahedral array, and I would > agree. However, the for

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread David Pickett
At 11:23 2/6/2013, Michael Chapman wrote: >> At 19:55 1/6/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >>>On 2013-06-01, David Pickett wrote: >>> >>>What I take this to mean is that if one is using WXY (derived from >>>A-format) for horizontal only playback, W will contain unwanted >>>vertical information that shou

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread Eric Benjamin
f the compromises we make in decoder and system design. There probably is a good deal of progress still to be made in this area. Eric Benjamin - Original Message From: Sampo Syreeni To: Surround Sound discussion group Sent: Sat, June 1, 2013 6:55:04 AM Subject: Re: [Sursound] Nevaton

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread Michael Chapman
> At 19:55 1/6/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: >>On 2013-06-01, David Pickett wrote: >> >>What I take this to mean is that if one is using WXY (derived from >>A-format) for horizontal only playback, W will contain unwanted >>vertical information that should be discarded. >> >>Correct for W, but also for

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread David Pickett
At 19:55 1/6/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2013-06-01, David Pickett wrote: What I take this to mean is that if one is using WXY (derived from A-format) for horizontal only playback, W will contain unwanted vertical information that should be discarded. Correct for W, but also for X and Y. T

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 02:55:28AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote: > But if you then record even the ideal infinitely distant point source > in the horizontal plane using the same setup, and try to reproduce it > using a pantophonic/2D rig, what you get is the same problem WFS gets. > The directionali

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 02 June 2013 02:55 +0300 Sampo Syreeni wrote: it will be reproduced wrong unless you're doing full periphony. This much is clear. But given the practical importance of a horizontal-only setup throughout the history of Ambisonics, I'd be surprised if any substantial improvement could b

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-06-01, David Pickett wrote: What I take this to mean is that if one is using WXY (derived from A-format) for horizontal only playback, W will contain unwanted vertical information that should be discarded. Correct for W, but also for X and Y. That's not the end of the story either: y

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-01 Thread David Pickett
At 09:54 1/6/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: BTW, did you ever look through what Z really does to you *encoding* equations? Formally, in order to arrive at proper pantophony you always have to either reject Z fully or purposely subtract it from the whole B-format signal set. Otherwise, even assumin

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-01 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2013-05-31, Daniel Courville wrote: I always insist on recording 'Z', and then almost never end up using it... Not even to "look" down or up in a stereo decode? I use the Z quite often (if not always) when recording large ensemble and the SF mic is more than 10 feet off the floor. BTW,

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-05-31 Thread Eric Benjamin
all. So if someone were to give me a Nevaton MC-50, I'd use it! But at the price they want for it, I'd rather get something else. Eric - Original Message From: Daniel Courville To: Sursound Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 10:18:13 AM Subject: Re: [Sursound] Nevaton micropho

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-05-31 Thread Daniel Courville
Le 2013-05-30 13:53, Eric Benjamin a écrit : >I always insist >on recording 'Z', and then almost never end up using it... Not even to "look" down or up in a stereo decode? I use the Z quite often (if not always) when recording large ensemble and the SF mic is more than 10 feet off the floor. - D

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Chapman
Eric Benjamin à écrit: > The lack of a vertical component is an interesting conundrum. I always > insist > on recording 'Z', and then almost never end up using it... > Still ... seems a pity to have _four_ capsules and no 'Z' ... Michael ___ Sursound

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-05-30 Thread Eric Benjamin
Sent: Thu, May 30, 2013 8:11:31 AM Subject: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones Hello, anyone tried these multichannel mic? http://nevatonmics.com/mics_multichannel.php I wonder what the "quad" configuration is. Thanks. Ema ___ Sursound maili

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Chapman
> Hello, > > anyone tried these multichannel mic? > > http://nevatonmics.com/mics_multichannel.php > > I wonder what the "quad" configuration is. > Looking at the PDF ...it _looks_ like two 'figure of eights' mounted in the horizontal plane. I say 'figure of eights' but with four outputs, that is

[Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-05-30 Thread Emanuele
Hello, anyone tried these multichannel mic? http://nevatonmics.com/mics_multichannel.php I wonder what the "quad" configuration is. Thanks. Ema ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound