Bought the Sennheiser Ambeo binaural recording headphones. I wanted some on-ear mics, and this seemed a relatively cheap and easy way to solve the problem.
(Background requirement — wanting to measure the spectral shape of noise in a motorbike helmet, so when i am doing noise testing using my GRAS artificial ear and cheek, I am at least driving it with the sort of spectral noise that you actually get in a helmet. Yes, its not precise, but it was an interesting bit of “I wonder…” fun R&D) The Ambeo headphones plug into an iPhone using a lightening port. This powers the headphones, acts as the IO for the mics and headphones etc. Sennheiser recommends an app from Apogee called MetaRecorder. I downloaded it. It only records for 60 seconds in the free version. Yes, 60 seconds. To get proper length recording you have to cough up £4.99 for a single device full version So I paid I did some recordings, and decided to use its “Send to Dropbox” feature to copy my recordings out. Dropbox throws a warning that Apogee is using an old API that will stop working in a few months. Tried it anyway. That doesn’t work, output to Dropbox keels over. Contacted Apogee support. They admit it doesn’t work. It might get fixed. But they have no timescale. Now I quite like the Ambeo headphone/binaural mic thing. Its interesting, its small, its cute, and the recordings are adequate (even though you only get a choice of two fixed record levels — errr, why???) The Apogee software is incomplete, buggy and doesn’t do what it claims. Yes, I expected rather better from Apogee and Sennheiser. Jon _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
