At 2:28 AM +0000 2/18/07, Greg Weddig wrote:
>http://www.archive.org/download/GTWeddigSanhillCranes/Cranes_Surround_Test=
.wma
Greg,
Thanks for sharing the mellow cranes. On my Mac, the file embeds in
a FireFox 2.0 browser window as a "audio/x-ms-wma Object" using the
QuickTime 7.1 plug. Stereo, of course. On Windows, has the day come
when the file plays directly through a browser window and through
your 6 channel audio card in 5.1?
Tom,
I downloaded your files. It will be a while before I can set-up the
Message: 5.
Subject: 1 player. Thanks for the concise collection of PC freeware links
too. Rob D.
>This was done with a set of wide sub-cardioids in the front and
>hyper-cardioids in the back, A-B-C-D, a quad pattern with the mics
>spaced about 1 meter from each other.
>
>--greg
>Baltimore, MD
>http://www.ourmedia.org/user/627
>http://home.earthlink.net/~gweddig
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>--- In "tk7859" <> wrote:
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>> Hi All
>>
>> Acouple of posts from Rob Danielson and Rich Peet in the recent
>> "Ergonomic Barriers" thread set me thinking how i could try some
>> surround recording at low cost (it was to be an experiment).
>> Following Rob's suggestion I cobbled up a four channel barrier mic
>>
>> http://ad2004.hku.nl/naturesound/TomR/Surround%20Tests/surroundmic.JPG
>>
>> Don't laugh - it was an experiment.
>>
>> The Rapid triplets formed the front facing stereo mic and the
>> Panasonic triplets the rearward facing mic. Two MZ-NH1 minidisc
>> recorders were used for recording.
>>
>> I used Audacity to make the FL, FR, FC, LFE, BL and BR mono tracks -
>> splitting the Rapid stereo trac fto make FL and FR. Similarly the
>> Panasonic stereo track was split and changed L to R to make the BL and
>> BR tracks. I made new mono tracks, filled with silence, for the FC
>> and LFE tracks.
>>
>> I followed up Rich's suggestion and downloaded the MP3 surround
>> encoder ((this software is free for trial purposes until end December
>> this year) and the free MP3 surround player from
>>
>> http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/fhg/iis/EN/bf/amm/mp3sur/index.jsp
>>
>> The MP3 Surround encoder require a single, six channel wave file as
>> its input. Easier to say than to make. I eventually managed to do it
>> with an 30 day evaluation copy of Audition 2. I had earlier tried to
>> use the MultiWave freeware, as suggested by Bill Thompson in the
>> "Surround 5.1 Without Hardware Soundcard" thread on the Yahoo
>> Phonography Group, but did not manage it. After cutting my teeth
>> making 6 channel wave files with Audition 2 I went back to MultiWave
>> and found it very easy and quick. Look for MultiWave under the the
>> digital audio/dsp banner on the left of the webpage
>>
> > http://www.nicolasfournel.com/
>>
>> The end result of the experiment is the MP3 Surround file
>>
>> http://ad2004.hku.nl/naturesound/TomR/Surround%20Tests/StoepMP3S.mp3
>>
>> This plays on a normal MP3 player - but only in stereo. If you want
>> to hear it in surround you can download the MP3 surround player from
>> the "fraunhofer" website mentioned above. This file was made using
>> Audacity > MultiWave > MP3 Surround Encoder.
>>
>> The equivalent stereo file, made with the forward facing Rapid
>triplets is
>>
>>
>http://ad2004.hku.nl/naturesound/TomR/Surround%20Tests/afrontpair12amp3.mp=
3
>>
>> The surround file comes into its own when the light aircraft flys over
>> my backyard.
>>
>> I don't have a 5.1 surround playback system so I used two stereo
>> amplifiers fed from a low cost, Creative 5.1 external soundcard. I
>> just did not connect a lead to the FC, LFE feed. The four, good
>> quality (but old) speakers no doubt sound a lot better than a typical
>> 5.1 speaker set designed for DVD players/computers.
>>
>> For me, the resulting surround sound is sufficiently intrigueing to
>> merit further experimentation. A first step will be the construction
>> of a more serious looking surround mic based on 12 Rapid capsules
>> (four triplets).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tom Robinson
> >
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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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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