On 05/02/2011 12:27 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: > On 01/05/2011 22:22, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > .. >> But as the sound engineer who's expected to provide a solution I'm >> not in a position to argue about this. And from the same perspective >> there is another point to consider. What if you have not just a >> single piece requiring some ad-hoc speaker placement, but three or >> four in the same concert, each of them having their specific >> requirements ? In that case I (as the sound engineer) would want to >> use a technology that allows me to cover all of them without having >> to physically move speakers and rewire the whole setup for each >> piece. And that is exactly what using HOA provides in such a >> situation - it abstracts the hardware. This is a point made very >> strongly by Joern Nettingsmeier in various papers and reports about >> his work, and I couldn't agree more with what he writes about this. >> > > > OK. As it happens my application is/will be purely synthetic (muons up > there, electrons down here, top quarks somewhere else entirely, and the > Higgs of course centre stage front) so ostensibly I can use whatever HOA > order I like. I do ~really need~ to know how few speakers I can "get > away with", as that is what actually costs money! The Allosphere uses > somewhere around 500 speakers; I need to reduce that number just a tad; > to single figures if possible so I can put it in a hatchback with the > back seat down... or the whole idea of it is more than a little moot and > I will stick to stereo.
since we were talking about posterity...: by all means, use HOA for your spatialisation process. it doesn't cost anything at all, and will make your efforts future-proof. if you then feel you have to render it on only 4 speakers, that will be no problem. but if you get the chance to use a more luxurious outfit, your material will be able to exploit it. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
