Here is the reason why I gave the recording of the stream a try by using
a pair of two mics configured as eights side by side with 40 cm spacing.
If you listen to the dog you can hear it running at least half a circle.
https://soundcloud.com/arnthor-helgason/the-stream-and-a-barking-dog
Headphones required.
Regards,
Arnthor
=DEann 4.8.2013 21:27, skrifa=F0i Klas Strandberg:
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> Here is one of the most revealing tests that I know:
> Headphones required.
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> http://klas.telinga.com/demo/walkinginacircle.mp3
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> Klas
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> At 11:25 2013-08-04, you wrote:
> >Any stereo array can easily be tested for efficacy by the simple
> >expedient of (while recording) walking across the soundfield in an
> >arc equidistant from the mic array. If the spatial representation is
> >accurate as captured, when the recording is played back over
> >properly positioned loudspeakers (=B130=BA for conventional stereo; =B14=
5=BA
> >for X-Y Blumlein crossed figure-of-eight) the footsteps should
> >progress evenly from one side to the other. You could be forgiven
> >for thinking this would be the result in most cases, but in fact it
> >seems to work only with crossed figure of eights and M-S arrays,
> >both coincident. All spaced arrays produce extremely aberrant
> >results with this experiment.
> >For most nature sound recordings I don't think it matters much -
> >especially of animal sounds - but to me it does matter when I am
> >trying to capture what might be called an acoustic, such as a stream
> >or a beachfront with waves (to realistically capture the movement of
> >the breaking part of the wave).
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> >sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause=
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