On 18/05/15 10:26, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
On 05/17/2015 09:34 PM, Richard Lee wrote:
Fons, have you heard any music recordings with EigenMike? No one
seems to
have tried.
FWIW, I have Eigenmike recordings from the Essen Philharmonic (a
contemporary piece performed by musikFabrik Köln) - they have been
sitting on my hard drive for more than a year because I couldn't get
studio time anywhere to do anything with it. Matthias Kronlachner was
part of that project, he might have done something with them. It's
really a pity that I've been unable to get anyone interested in that
material, we have a soundfield st450 main mike, an eigenmike pretty
close to that, and about 30 spot mikes in total. Plus Matthias brought
a 360-degree cam which we used to record the whole thing.
But this thing has so far cost me 1k out of my own pocket already, and
unless someone's going to throw at least a week of studio time my way,
it's going to keep sitting on my harddrive.
Hi,
I did not do any mixing of the material, but the IEM Graz played
excerpts of the Eigenmike recording on several occasions eg. at the
Ambisonics Symposium in Berlin and people did like it very much.
The 360° video recording is not so useful from this recording as it was
very dark in the hall and the resolution is not that great. But who
needs video if the sound is great ;-)
I did quite a number of recordings since then with the EM. Compared to a
first order recording you can use a larger number of loudspeakers for
playback and achieve a bigger sweet spot. The immersiveness is really
nice! At the IEM we did several informal comparisons with switching
between EM, a Soundfield (decoded 1st order and 3rd order with Harpex)
and a Schoeps Omni as reference. All of these configurations have their
use cases, but the representation of the space was always best with the EM.
The problem of limited bandwith for each order though makes it difficult
to achieve the same tonal balance when changing the decoder/loudspeaker
configuration.
But using good radial filters eg. by Mr. Lösler/Zotter (which is the
only thing needed to process EM recordings that are currently not
available to the public as far as I know) gives you something to start
with and only little EQ is needed to get a convincing playback.
Best, Matthias
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