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

2011-07-25 Thread Dave Hunt
Hi, Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:24:55 - From: Richard Lee Mr. Hunt, I hope Sampo & Fons have been sufficiently enlightening. A Classic Ambi rig or soundfield mike has no concept of a "unit circle". They record & present distance as presented to them. The m

[Sursound] Previously un-noted UHJ recordings

2011-07-25 Thread Paul Hodges
I recently came across a number of recordings made in UHJ format in the early 1990s by a small company called Mirabilis. The man who started this broke off the recording business when he took over the old British pipe organ company Henry Willis and Sons, which has naturally kept him fully occu

[Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
After reading this difficult thread (I'm replying with a new title), I have simple questions about room sizes and speaker distances. Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:35:31 +0100, Dave Hunt wrote : > The Distance Compensation (aka NFC, and not the shelf filters) > attempts to correct for the loudspeakers n

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-25 Thread Marc Lavallée
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:18:42 -0400, I wrote : > Imagine two rooms with proper acoustic characteristics and treatments > for ambisonics reproduction: the first is 3mX4m and the other is four > times larger in surface (9mX12m). Oops! This is of course 9 times larger, not 4... Anyway, what is a the eff