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Subject: Re: Post and question
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Tue Apr 7, 2009 9:36 am ((PDT))
Justin, there are several papers addressing both the acoustic and
psychoacoustic limits of binaural recording and reproduction, many of
which can be found in the archives of the Journal of the Audio
Engineering Society over the past 20 years.

Bernie


On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:26 AM, justinasia wrote:

> "Cocktail Party Effect" wherein one
> > can pick out any one specific conversation in a room full of
> multiple
> > simultaneous conversations, merely by focussing visually on the
> > speakers. Mics cannot discriminate like this. To recreate the same
> > sense of direct to diffuse sound you need to place the mics much
> > closer to the source.
>
> Is that in the kind of information contained in binaural recordings?
> People mentioned about directional information of the sound from how
> it reflects (/refracts?) through our ears/head etc.
>
> If so, do those binaural recordings seem to have less reverb (than
> they do)? Then, does the noticeability of the reverb increase when
> using speakers (due to speakers not conveying the binaural
> information)?
>
> Justin
>
>
>

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