I'm not much of a numbers/spec reader so your notes on the self noise
are helpful. I find peoples opinions are more useful than a spec
sheet anyday.
Have you really found multichannel recordings hard to present? I
would have thought with the wealth of home theatre receivers and
DVD-Audio players etc. that it has actually become quite simple. The
capturing being the difficult part.
Thanks for the advice.
Dave
--- In Rob Danielson <> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
>
> --
> Rob Danielson
> Peck School of the Arts
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/
>
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