Re: [Sursound] Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Robert Greene
and put it perfectly - "Dont capture what is heard but what is produced" - and your other question - yes it is a form of amplitude panning. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attach

Re: [Sursound] Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Augustine Leudar
nt capture what is heard but what is produced" - and your >> other question - yes it is a form of amplitude panning. >> -- next part -- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/*

Re: [Sursound] Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Augustine Leudar
Of course if you were going to go to that much trouble you might as well just listen to a real orchestra -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130517/1c85b6ef/attachment.h

Re: [Sursound] Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 17 May 2013 17:53 +0200 Augustine Leudar wrote: > However I dont see why it wouldnt work for musical instruments as > well - as long as the speakers were placed in exactly the same place > as the instruments were recorded in and the mics didnt pick up any > other instrument apart from the on

Re: [Sursound] Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Timothy Schmele
t it perfectly - "Dont capture what is heard but what is produced" - and your other question - yes it is a form of amplitude panning. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/**mailman/private/sursound/** atta

Re: [Sursound] The commercial future of Ambisonics

2013-05-17 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: On 16 May 2013, at 14:32, Stefan Schreiber wrote: Ah, another new business model for music delivered via the WWW... :-) Just to warn you: These exclusive contracts (where Majors pick just one distributor for a "special" format) might not work, in a leg

Re: [Sursound] [allowed] Re: Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Gerard Lardner
I believe Gilbert Briggs of Wharfedale did something like this in the 1950s. He hired major concert halls and other public venues in the UK and USA to give concerts comparing live with recorded sound. Of course, the purpose was to promote his Wharfedale loudspeakers and Quad amplifiers (he and

Re: [Sursound] The commercial future of Ambisonics

2013-05-17 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: On 16 May 2013, at 05:24, Richard G Elen wrote: A strong eco-system like iTunes could use B-format with proper software changes, weaker eco systems could use UHJ, and simply have UHJ-capable players, but in the absence of such, would still end up serving perfect

Re: [Sursound] The commercial future of Ambisonics

2013-05-17 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Richard G Elen wrote: Well, most of Ambisonics is in the public domain now, so what we mean by a "commercial future" is not what we might once have hoped it would be. A future *in* commercial products? Certainly, now and in the future. A commercial future as itself? Probably not. Today the t

Re: [Sursound] [allowed] Re: Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-17 Thread Robert Greene
I think I did not make myself clear. Of course in those live versus canned experiments(also with AR) reverberation tended to make things sound pretty much the same to smooth out errors and so on. But in fact, if one records musical instrument with a mike and plays it back with a speaker has no h