Douglas wrote:
In early experiences with binaural without head tracking I found the
effects lacking in the very thing it was supposed to be delivering:
more accurate localization than with volume based panning. More
recently, after many hours of attentive listening, I have found the
effect more convincing.
So my question is, is the effective localization of binaural sound a
learned skill? And if so, can the skill be taught?
As a 30+ year manufacturer of binaural microphones, perhaps I can
answer.
If you recorded binaurally using a first-rate set of miniature
microphones mounted on/in your own ears with your own ears (and hence
your own personal HRTF), you'd find the recordings to be extremely
spatially realistic. The only deficit would be that sound sources
directly on the front/rear axis (plus or minus roughly five or ten
degrees) wouldn't be easy to locate correctly as front or rear.
If you added headtracking to the personal HRTF and calibrated/corrected
headphones, you'd have an extremely realistic and spatially precise
binaural recording.
That's what you get with recordings made with excellent higher-order
ambisonic recordings, decoded to binaural with a personal HRTF, and
played back through calibrated/corrected headphones.
Len Moskowitz (mosko...@core-sound.com)
Core Sound LLC
www.core-sound.com
Home of OctoMic and TetraMic
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