John,
Wooden bowl? Do you have photos of this?
It tickled me because I was looking at a bowl in the dining room last night
made from burled walnut and kept thinking about it being an "ear" for
recording.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, hartogj <> wrote:
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> Yes indeed. I cut apart a wooden bowl and reassembled it to approximate
> SASS characteristics except less angle between mic axes and narrower front
> to the nose piece. The resulting sculpture looks pretty freaky, almost as
> freaky as that coyote reverb. My idea was that a curved surface to the
> boundary plane may allow some of the surface to be oriented directly forward
> while still maintaining some boundary effect out to 90 degrees, and maybe it
> would create a natural transition to the rear. Rob's boundary mic group and
> blog have been very helpful for examining the acoustical behavior of the
> SASS design and coming up with "what if" ideas to apply to DIY versions. I
> will soon be submitting localization test results and other information
> about my array to the blog.
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