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Re: Two recordings of an Icedlandic stream (terminology correction)

Subject: Re: Two recordings of an Icedlandic stream (terminology correction)
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Fri Aug 2, 2013 2:54 pm ((PDT))
You know that I like your sonels, David.

"I believe spaced arrays of any kind produce almost no "imaging" of
any particular note - just the sensation of spaciousness, due to the
phase anomalies"

Yes, I think I agree with that.

Klas.


  At 20:19 2013-08-02, you wrote:


>--- 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 left
> > 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 sound
> > illusion.
> >
> > David Brinicombe
> >
>If I understood the first post correctly, there were no crossed
>figure of eight 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 imaging would more likely have been as
>described here. Specificity of imaging with 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 - just the
>sensation of spaciousness, due to the phase anomalies
>
>
>
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