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Re: Schoeps Double MS sample

Subject: Re: Schoeps Double MS sample
From: "hartogj" hartogj
Date: Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:32 am ((PDT))
Hi Marinos,

"... 
> a soundfield recording can be decoded for a full-sphere rig of say 16 
> speakers resulting in a 3d immersive sound experience. While it is possible 
> to do some alchemy and have a doubleMS recording played back accordingly, I 
> doubt whether the result would be of equal interest (at least in terms of 
> faithful localization)
> 
> a doubleMS rig is in essence 2-dimensional while soundfield is a 
> 3-dimensional mike
..."

I understand now how ambisonics could potentially create a more "immersive" 
listening experience than other surround systems, but 
I am still left to wonder how practical, over stereo, it has actually proved to 
be for representing natural soundscapes. 

In my experience, two channel stereo can represent a natural space with enough 
localization to easily say it is fully three dimensional in that it does 
provide the listener xyz to some extent. 

If ambisonics has the potential to provide xyz to some greater extent than 
stereo, that does not necessarily make a good stereo recording sound only two 
dimensional in comparison.

John Hartog
rockscallop.org

















"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a 
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.



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