Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-23 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi again, Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:01:41 +0300 (EEST) From: Sampo Syreeni On 2011-07-21, Dave Hunt wrote: There is certainly no consideration of values outside the unit sphere. [...] Correct, and we've been here before. We certainly have. As BLaH points out, even the first order dec

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-23 Thread dave . malham
Hi Folks, I have an interesting question (well, I think it's interesting). The Soundfield microphone, like any directional microphone, has a boosted bass response to close sounds. When listening to this through a speaker rig, we hear this boost and tend to interpret it as meaning the sound

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-23 Thread Robert Greene
I feel a little diffident in commenting on this in the presence of so many experts on the Soundfield mike in theory as well as in practice, but unless I am misunderstanding how it works, there are VERY serious problems of other kinds with using it at the kinds of distances (fractions of a mete

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-23 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-07-23, dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: (For some reason Dave H's post didn't arrive at me as-is. Dave Malham appears once quoted and Dave Hunt as twice, in below. Sorry about the hassle.) I have an interesting question (well, I think it's interesting). The Soundfield microphone, like a

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-23 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On 2011-07-23, Robert Greene wrote: I feel a little diffident in commenting on this in the presence of so many experts on the Soundfield mike in theory as well as in practice, but unless I am misunderstanding how it works, there are VERY serious problems of other kinds with using it at the kin