--- In wrote:
>
> > David, do you judge some stereo illusions as better than others. Not
> > "better", but better
>
> Klas,
>
> Oh yes - that is the art of sound recording. Sound is coming out of the l=
eft
> and right speakers, but a centre image appears to come from wallpaper, a=
> vase of flowers, or a cat, or whatever is half way between the speakers.=
>
> With a music mix, you pan-pot each mic to where you want that instrument =
or
> vocal to come from. With nature recording it's not that easy, but the
> overall effect which gives a pleasant stereo image is one where you can
> identify where each sound object is placed in the stereo image.
>
> I got that with Arnthor's crossed fig-8 mic recording we were discussing.=
I
> could hear the whole stream and my feet about to get wet. :-)
>
> That's why I talk about sonels, the "resolution" of the sound image, in
> other words the number of different placements you can hear in a good sou=
nd
> illusion.
>
> David Brinicombe
>
If I understood the first post correctly, there were no crossed figure of e=
ight set ups used - they were both spaced in an A-B fashion. If the figure =
eight patterns had been used in the Blumlein X-Y way (coincident), the imag=
ing would more likely have been as described here. Specificity of imaging w=
ith A-B arrays is just wishful thinking, in my experience. I believe spaced=
arrays of any kind produce almost no "imaging" of any particular note - ju=
st the sensation of spaciousness, due to the phase anomalies
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