Your memory jives with mine though as I recall, the instruments did surround the Soundfield. The vocalist was not recorded directly; rather, her voice was amplified through a loudspeaker positioned in front of the Soundfield.
Jeff silberman >________________________________ > From: Martin Leese <martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org> >To: sursound@music.vt.edu >Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:53 AM >Subject: Re: [Sursound] Giving Precedence to Ambisonics > > >Eric Carmichel wrote: >... >>> Two-channel playback (both convention and binaural) is here to stay for a >>> while, so optimizing Ambisonics for stereo is desirable to me. In fact, one >>> of my favorite recordings from the late 80s was made with the band (The >>> Cowboy Junkies) circled around a Calrec Soundfield mic. I've never heard >>> whether the Trinity Session recording was released in a surround format, or >>> if the mic's hardware decoder converted straight to stereo from the get go. > >The Trinity Session is CD UHJ encoded, so >can be decoded to surround sound using an >Ambisonic UHJ decoder. However, when you >do this, the performers are (correctly) located >in strange places. This suggests that the UHJ >was not intended to be decoded. Instead, >decode it using the Super Stereo mode. This >keeps the performers at the front where they >"belong", while still surrounding the listener >with the ambience of the Trinity Church. > >From memory, the recording engineer has >said that the output from the Soundfield mic >went straight into a UHJ encoder, and only two >channels were recorded. If true, this means >that the recording can not exist in B-Format. > >Regards, >Martin >-- >Martin J Leese >E-mail: martin.leese stanfordalumni.org >Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/ >_______________________________________________ >Sursound mailing list >Sursound@music.vt.edu >https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130627/a3465061/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
