Hi
Exactly what Dave wrote.
The human auditory system has also "learned" and "got used to" which
particular
sounds "normally" come from above and from below. Leaves rustling in the
wind,
birds, aeroplanes - from above. Footsteps etc. from below. I have tried
playing such sounds from the "wrong", opposite direction The listeners
have been
very confused about the direction. In some cases they didn't even
recognize the
sound.
Rotating the soundfield "onto it's side" (= rotating laterally -90
degrees) makes the
listener totally whacked up, as an aeroplane just simply doesn't pass
you by from
your _left_ side. :-)
Eero
Dave Malham wrote:
Have I really heard sounds from below me?? Yes, all the time - every time
I walk around (other than a really, really, soft carpet), in stair wells
let alon leaning out of windows, in cable cars, in microlights, hot air
balloons, mesh floored lighting bridges - I could go on and on (and I
frequently do :-). Mind you, it's not as robust as horizontal imaging -
witness what happens if you play recordings of birds flying below you (top
of Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire), it's impossible - or very nearly so - to
hear them as anything but above.
Dave
On 26 November 2014 at 03:22, Sampo Syreeni <de...@iki.fi> wrote:
On 2014-11-21, dw wrote:
The state-of-the-art finds it very difficult to render sounds below the
listener.
True. But then, at the same time, have you ever truly heard sounds from
right below yourself? Does even the human auditory system *really* know
what it means to "hear something from below"?
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