You should consider Ambiophonics. With four speakers and 4.0 media such as Dolby Atmos or Auro3D or B format, you can have a full circle of direct sound in the horizontal plane. You can have several listeners and you don't need head tracking. Height however does require more speakers but height hall ambience is easy to obtain. Take a look at the miniDSP, Amtra, Soundpimp, NeutronMP, AmbiophonicsDSP, etc. Links, AES papers and tutorials at www.ambiophonics.org There are also sample demo 4.0 tracks available made with an Ambiophone, a 4.0 mic array originally conceived by seeing what happens when you combine two Soundfield mics and a shaped structure between them. See the papers by Robin Miller under the tab Recording Engineers Corner. See also the hall IRs furnished by Angelo Farina if you want ambient height for music.
-----Original Message----- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Augustine Leudar Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2019 4:05 AM To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Study Comparing Ambisonic and Channel Based Systems I havent done a study on it but ive done hundreds of compositions and installations and the differences are pretty obvious. Ambisonics is pretty good at filling a hole in the panning but vbap can be better under some circumstances. Ambisonics is pretty much useles if you want to say, makes sounds fly round a labarinth of corridors covering a festival area in which case dbap is better suited. Wfs handles focussed sources better. 5-,1 strictty speaking is a speaker array so you could have ambisonics over a 5.1 speaker setup. Ive toyed with the idea of doing a study comparing how well tecniques can get sounds to sppear close to a lustener between wfs , ambisonics and dbap but its pointless reslly as its obvious to anyone who uses these things what the results would be.All different tools for different jobs. On Friday, 19 April 2019, Michael Bevers <mbev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious if anyone knows of, or has conducted, any studies comparing an > Ambisonic system to a channel-based system? For example, a comparison of an > Auro 3-D system with an Ambisonic system. Or even just a 5.1 surround > system with an Ambisonic system. > > I haven't found any studies myself directly comparing the two, even through > AES. > > Thanks for any help, > Michael > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/ > attachments/20190419/8966cd12/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Dr. Augustine Leudar Artistic Director Magik Door LTD Company Number : NI635217 Registered 63 Ballycoan rd, Belfast BT88LL www.magikdoor.net +44(0)7555784775 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20190420/cc6 3b0e9/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
