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Subject: 1. Re: Surround Sound Recording
From: "Eric Fassbender" eric.fassbender
Date: Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:07 am ((PST))
Yes, it is intended for "steerable 360-degree visual experience" or 360 Sur=
round Video experience in a VR Headset.

And yes, I'm also not sure why they haven't used the obvious peanuts or mat=
ches demos. I also don't know how effective the 4 binaural ear pairs are. T=
he setup just looks strange and I'm not sure how authentic the final sound =
environment is going to be. Saying that, the examples that I've seen that u=
sed this setup (e.g. a Cirque de Soleil demo in the Samsung Gear VR headset=
) are pretty good in terms of location of the sound sources. I'm just not s=
ure how to record and edit 8 tracks and most importantly how to get them in=
to a final video that knows where the 0=B0 reference point is going to be. =
Has anyone worked with surround sound in video?

Hope all is well,

Eric


On 19/01/2015, at 4:55 AM, umashankar  [naturerecordists=
] <> wrote:

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> if you are going to use the pinna for direction cues, it follows that it =
cannot have flat frequency response. Omni capsules in free air, especially =
small ones like the Panasonic, can have flat frequency response, but not af=
ter mounting them in the ear canal.
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> the whole thing sounds strange.
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> umashankar
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> From: " [naturerecordists]" <=
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> To: 
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> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Surround Sound Recording
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> > I have not seen or used these mikes. But looking at the online literatu=
re, I would posit that rather than being intended for a surround sound play=
back, this rig is simply an array of four binaural pairs, intended as audio=
 support for a steerable 360-degree visual experience. >
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> Flawn,
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> I tried to get past the jargon but failed. The audio example sounded as i=
f
> it had been edited from one pair of tracks and not recorded in one go,
> presumably outdoors unless they had a huge hangar. And what to the "ears"=

> do? Which way should they point?
>
> The obvious test would be to walk around the rig talking, with a quiet
> background or doing my shaking peanuts test. And once the 8 capsules have=

> been matrixed, what is the system noise level? What mic combination ever =
has
> a smooth straight line frequency response? Non-coincident mics will alway=
s
> interact giving peaks and troughs.
>
> David Brinicombe
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> "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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