Marc L said:
What I'm still waiting for is a free (as in speech) Ambisonics
microphone like the ones being developed by the SpHEAR project:
https://cm-gitlab.stanford.edu/ambisonics/SpHEAR/
I want something affordable, that I can build, fix and calibrate
myself, without two PhDs and access to a nuclear-powered anechoic
chamber. I want a modest gear and enough knowledge....
Marc
The great problem, of course, is that these things are only "affordable"
if they can be mass-produced and sold in the tens of thousands. In DIY
quantities for enthusiasts they may be excellent in quality, but they
really cannot be inexpensive.
For low cost the Zooms and the Rode's are the only plausible future,
because they can amortise their enormous research, set-up and machining
costs over sufficient numbers. The interesting point is that the sort of
accuracy and tolerance feasible during their style of mass-production is
beginning to equate to that of the specialists of bygone years.
How open these sort of products can be in terms of internal architecture
and calibration is another (commercial) problem. At least some secrecy
is essential to their business model, to avoid making reverse
engineering too easy... and therefore losing the mass market that their
product has to be based on.
None of this appeals to the artisan in most of us, but the reality of it
cannot be ignored either.
Chris Woolf
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