On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:57:52AM -0800, Eric Benjamin wrote: > > would be happy with eight channels. (can i synch two zoom H2s? > > I was, in fact, fishing for your opinions on the number of channels. > Personally, although I retain some sort of purist perspective that a > complete > 9-channel 2nd-order system would be best, when bringing in the difficulty of > taking along that 9th channel on a recording expedition, 2nd-order horizontal > or > a mixed order representation becomes much more attractive!
If you want an 8-ch 'B format' then dropping R is the obvious choice. The result is a mixed order 2h1v format. It preserves full second order resolution in azimuth, as R doesn't depend on it, and compromises only on resolution in elevation. This will match most real-life reproduction systems quite well, many practical speaker layouts have problems with full second order but will handle 2h1v quite well. For a microphone one practical consequence would be that you shouldn't use it in 'endfire' mode. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
