Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics? (was Re: microphone epiphany ?)

2012-05-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/29/2012 08:24 PM, Bearcat M. Şandor wrote: This touches on something i've wondered for a while now. Discrete surround always sounds as though it's in a fixed ring to me. Sounds are always the same distance away. I've experianced that with binaural recordings as well. Is there a surround s

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Dave Malham
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Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
Wow - thats real startrek material right there Dave ! I was letting my imagination wander in a similar area the other day and was wondering if the beating/harmonics caused by two beams of electromagnetic waves could somehow excite the air where their paths crossed causing a sound to eminate from th

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Peter Lennox
Of course, the other way is to attach a small, high power speaker to a trained fly Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology University of Derby, UK tel: 01332 593155 e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk -Original Message- From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] O

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Dave Malham
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Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Dave Malham
In the early seventies, I remember Trevor Wishart doing a "spatial audio" piece by putting battery powered cassette recorders in suitcases and having the performers move around carrying them (and I'm sure there have been other such...) However, back to the present - given the progress the milit

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 02:10:22PM +0100, Augustine Leudar wrote: > but anyone listening carefully would have heard a fly about 1 foot high ! This magnification effect has been reported many times. I wonder how much it has to do with playing back at too high levels. We do associate LF energy and

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Eric Benjamin
> Is there a surround sound method that will > reproduce actual depth enough so that you > could track the movment of a fly in a room? A while back I started making a series of simultaneous binaural and 1st-order soundfield recordings. The purpose is to compare them in reproduction, with a c

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-05-30 Thread Ronald C.F. Antony
The problem is, a sound sources as close to your ear as a mosquito is essentially a mono signal on one ear, you practically hear nothing on the other ear. That's pretty much impossible to do with anything than a headphone setup, or some phase cancelation while your head is clamped down such as

[Sursound] Catching the same fly twice (and a curious question)

2012-05-30 Thread Eric Carmichel
g of the recording. How much localization info do you believe will be lost? Could be fun, plus I’m a firm believer in learning by doing. Thanks for reading, Eric -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/s

Re: [Sursound] Catching the same fly twice (and a curious question)

2012-05-30 Thread etienne deleflie
uld be done in an anechoic chamber ... because you will be capturing not just the effect of the microphone, and the limitations in the decoding, as well as the character of the speakers, but also the character of the room. Etienne > Thanks for reading, > Eric > -- next par