Thanks Brian,
That Zoom is crazy-looking but promising - for $350 it's certainly got my
interest. I thought the capsules on the H2 were pretty decent and the UX
pretty decent as well, I'm a fan for the price point. The H2 was always a
backup for the Sony, but, if this is at least at that par, I will likely
give it a go.
The AA powering is a pleasant surprise for long term travel as well!
I do wonder about windscreening that thing though...
aaron
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:16 AM 'Brian Valente'
[naturerecordists] <> wrote:
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> Zoom is now shipping the H3 =96 a 360 microphone array that includes a
> recorder in Ambisonics A and B formats
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> https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zo=
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> it looks promising, although I=92ve never been impressed with Zoom=92s ca=
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> on the headphones side, Audeze introduced the Mobius which is a
> headtracking 3D headphone.
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> https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zo=
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> they are a bit pricey but well reviewed
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> so=85 some new hardware that seems to advance the state-of-the-art
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> Brian
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> portfolio https://www.brianvalentephotography.com/
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> *From:* Brian Valente
> *Sent:* Friday, September 28, 2018 10:51 AM
> *To:*
> *Subject:* RE: [Nature Recordists] ambisonic audio
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> Hi Aaron
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> Thanks for your thoughts.
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> Regarding a =93next generation=94 type of setup, what do you think is mis=
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> Is it in the mics/capture, or more in the post processing, or maybe both?
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> *Sent:* Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:27 PM
> *To:*
> *Subject:* Re: [Nature Recordists] ambisonic audio
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> Hi Brian,
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> I got excited at the prospect of taking an Ambisonics mic into the field
> to do the kind of 'anthropogenic'-centric soundscape recording I've done
> lots of using near-binaural mics (and some Blumlein and M/S and spaced
> omni).
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> The tantalizing prospect was to take composed immersive sound to the next
> level, allowing and playing with, as you say, listener head
> position=96especially since platforms like YouTube and Facebook support
> headset decode and have some rudimentary HRTF synthesis...
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> ...long story short, my enthusiasm cooled significantly when I played wit=
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> live-decode from recordings made with second-generation tetrahedral
> ambisonics, because for people used to 'rich' stereo with a lot of subtle
> cues for e.g. depth and focused localization, the stereo image produced
> felt very vague and flat=96more like an uneven flat sphere than a three
> dimensional space, as it were.
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> From what I understand higher-order Ambisonics fills in the 'holes' and
> gives more, but IMO what's going to be really necessary for the technique
> to work as I want is to somehow capture, and be able to "remove in post"
> the timing and maybe to some extent frequency variation characteristic of
> HRTF, and synthesize more accurately those differences for the
> realtime-rendered head position.
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> I have vague ideas of how one might in theory attempt this, there should
> be enough information in a tetrahedral array=96and there should be ways o=
f
> e.g. using a nested double tetrahedral array at controlled spacing, maybe
> with the inner set serving as an occluding baffle...
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> ...but that would require a lot of computation if it worked at all...
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> ...and I'm too lazy personally to take it on. So far.
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> But absent some kind of next-generation step up, I am myself waiting for
> more to be there before jumping... :/
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> aaron
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> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 1:59 PM 'Brian Valente'
> [naturerecordists] <> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I see new VR microphones out there, Zoom just released a 360 mic for
> around $350
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> I=92ve always been a fan of and recorded ambient, but I really love the i=
dea
> of putting on headphones and as the you move your head, the audio moves
> accordingly so it=92s as though you were really there
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> I just haven=92t seen much in the way of standalone ambisonic audio or
> headphones for that purposes.
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> Thanks
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> Brian
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