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Subject: 4. Re: Mono v. Stereo
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_audio
Date: Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:34 pm ((PST))
At 3:23 PM +0100 12/30/08, Klas Strandberg wrote:
>
>My memory is very auditive: If I replay a recording made in stereo,
>it might be a very old recording, it brings back most of the
>sensations, even smells. It is like going back in time.
>

Klas--
That is a a very interesting observation about stereo imagery 
possibly engaging more neural circuitry and perhaps enhancing memory.

I record and monitor a stereo mic rig with wireless stereo headphones 
almost every night as I sleep. In the morning, I jot down notes about 
sound events that I seem to recall hearing. One of the best ways I 
can test as to whether the event was real or imagined is to try and 
describe its location within the stereo field. I've done this for 
about a year and it seems to me that spatialization is usually part 
and parcel of the "recording" I've made in my head.  Later, as I 
spot-play through the recording in search of this recalled moments, 
the sound is always positioned very closely to what I recalled.

Curious to think that our memories of heard experiences could include 
the space they occurred in! =-O Rob D.


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