On 2011-11-28, Martin Leese wrote:
To see the various speaker configurations for first-order full-sphere,
look in the following reference:
M.A. Gerzon, "Practical Periphony", Preprint 1571 of the 65th Audio
Engineering Society Convention, London (1980 Feb.) (A relatively
non-technical accoun
On 2011-11-27, Eric Carmichel wrote:
My current research interests include cochlear implants and the
possibility of creating “real-world” virtual listening environments
for studying hearing aid and cochlear implant efficacy in a variety of
noisy and moderately quiet environments. I see the pot
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
...
> As Michael points out, you can have 3-D first order with
> 8 speakers, either a cube or one of the bi-rectangle
> layouts. If you are going to reproduce only 1st order
> material I'd certainly recommend one of those over using
> 8 speakers for horizontal only.
To see
Eric:
As others have mentioned, a hexagon often does a better job of reproducing
the 2D "ambience," as I discovered when I started experimenting with
Ambisonics at sports-car races.
If you really want to be "surrounded" you can even get to a compelling
experience of 3D with a Tetramic --
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 06:52:44PM -, Michael Chapman wrote:
> Well, the TetraMic is giving you three-dimensional info and your are
> reproducing in 2-D.
>
> The TetraMic (or any common ambisonic mic, for that matter) is
> only giving you first order ambisonics.
> Four loudspeakers should be
> Greetings to all:
Welcome to the list.
> My first project is to record restaurants and coffee houses using a Core
> Sound TetraMic and then play these back through an 8-speaker,
> horizontal-only circular configuration (r = 1.4 m). I could just as easily
> stagger the speakers so that they pro
