Re: Microphones, microphone placement, stereo systems

["ffs" brainsci001]

--- In  "Robin" <> wrote:

> Modelling one's microphone placement on human hearing makes sense in only=
 one case: where you are planning on decoupling the listener's ears from th=
e sound field during playback -- that is, for two-channel binaural recordin=
gs listened to on headphones. If instead you are planning on your sounds be=
ing heard over speakers, modelling human ears in the microphone placement i=
ntroduces an extra HRTF to the signal. This makes no sense to me.

Not only is the HRTF different but the sound body (source vibration as prop=
agated through a medium) is different in that it would reflect a new enviro=
nment. Therefore the sound body that travels from the speakers will be affe=
cted by environmental objects not originally present. To the (lesser) exten=
t that the shape and makeup of headphones similarly affect the sound body, =
you are also going to end up with a different response curve.

paul