To add to what Jörn & Fons have written. Even for "simple" stereo/2 chan audio playback.
If you were to have made a MS rather than L-R use of your 2 chan recording media, stereo width can be chosen after the recording event. And even better if your recording were 3 channel, Front, Rear & L/R difference, (double MS or horizontal Ambisonics, both do this) then for simple Stereo you can emulate any, Yes any 1st order, polar pattern coincident mic pair at any angle you like, and this can be after the recording session. As mentioned before you can also with 3 chans of info as above, de-code to any horizontal only surround format, Quad, 5.0, 5.1, 7.1, whatever. John L From: Jörn Nettingsmeier To: sursound@music.vt.edu Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ? > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 04:38:19PM +0000, Augustine Leudar wrote: >> The same with quadrophonic (with no >> matrixing nonsense) - four mics go to four speakers placed in a square - >> works fine, tried it hundreds of times, no decfoding involved. oh, and i forgot: you can do horizontal surround to four or more speakers using just three recording channels. that's another huge advantage. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http://stackingdwarves.net Internal Virus Database is out of date. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
