Good points David, love your comment about such technology putting a lot of=
sound editors our of business. I bet they'd have hundreds of reasons why t=
his is bad but hey, I'm one of them (although not full time) and I would lo=
ve an easier workflow!
I'm also not convinced of the 8 ears. It just doesn't make much sense to me=
. What do others think?
And yes, the price is a whopper, I don't see myself investing that much any=
time soon. Not sure about the noise levels but I'm sure there is a reason =
why they chose such a noisy sample for the demo :D
Thanks again for your thoughts :)
Eric
On 19/01/2015, at 12:21 PM, [naturerecordists] <naturer=
> wrote:
> > I'm just not sure how to record and edit 8 tracks and most importantly =
how to get them into a final video that knows where the 0=EF=BF=BD referenc=
e point is going to be. Has anyone worked with surround sound in video?
>
> Eric,
>
> Recording would be the easy bit using an 8-track recorder. This would be=
> synchronised with the camera using a "guide track" and clapper board or
> bleep. Old technology still used today.
>
> There is no indication what you would then do with the eight tracks, or e=
ven
> a sample given of the result. As I said, the simple test would be a
> walk-around.
>
> Surround sound with picture is available in almost every cinema. It is bu=
ilt
> up from individual stereo and mono tracks pan-potted to the appropriate
> speakers. This is a synthetic process.
>
> I find it difficult to believe that the same result can be obtained using=
> any small mic cluster, with or without ear shapes on it. If so, there wil=
l
> be a lot of sound editors put out of business. :-)
>
> It would be interesting to hear what a double SASS rig could produce, and=
> anyone with two SASS's could tell us. This would require a 4-track record=
ing
> and four discrete speakers.
>
> Dummy head recording can give good results on headphones provided that th=
e
> dummy head more or less matches the listener's head. You can even get a
> front-back separation on a good match of heads, but this is a totally
> different process from matrixing eight mics.
>
> I also note the high price of the setup which uses "affordable" mics. Wha=
t
> is the overall noise spec using all the nics?
>
> David Brinicombe
>
>
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