Hi Dave--
The Sursound list is most certainly one of the best resources for
accessing people with experience with the Soundfield mics and
alternatives. https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
You might recognize Eric Benjamin's and Umashankar Mantravadi's names
from this list and others as well. Depending on the kind of surround
recording you want to pursue, there are some different challenges
that nature recordists face. The most obvious one to me is the
frequent need to use very high gain in order to reach into quieter,
usually more open spaces which tends reveal the self-noise and other
limitations of the gear more readily than recording loud sources in
enclosed spaces. With this in mind, the relatively high self-noise of
the ST mics has kept me at observation distance. There is a
contingency of folks who are into outdoor surround imaging on the
Sursound; Paul Doornbusch is one name I recall. Good luck with your
4 channel pursuits; lots of exploring and learning to be done in this
arena. Not easy to present, I might add. Rob D.
At 3:25 PM +0000 12/22/06, davelori777 wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Does anybody have much experience using a Calrec Soundfield Mic? I'm
>very interested in getting more into multichannel recordings and their
>new ST350 and the older ST250 seem like pretty good simple solutions
>for getting a 5.1 output out of my 4 track Sound Devices 744. Anybody
>played with one much?
>
>Dave
>
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Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/
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