Thank you very much!

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 12:47 AM, Richard Dobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That's a very cool idea ... but also very difficult. The overall topic is 
> generally referred to as "localisation". You are describing "dummy head 
> recording". Spectrum analysis will be an important tool, though in some cases 
> inspecting the waveform may show how phase differences between the ears 
> contribute to localisation. This "inter-aural difference" is an important 
> element.  It is known, for example, that localisation depends not only on 
> distance, but also on pitch - low frequencies are virtually impossible to 
> localise as the phase is not sufficiently different between the ears. Which 
> is why we may need 5 speakers, in just the right positions, to hear music in 
> "surround", but just one sub-woofer, which can be placed just about anywhere.
> 
> The best place to ask about this is probably the sursound list, where there 
> is plenty of expertise on spatial audio, microphones, dummy heads, such 
> things as HRTFs, the role of the pinnae in sensing source direction, etc. 
> There are opinions on whether a dumy head is enough, or whether you need a 
> dummy torso as well, as it is thought we pick up subtle reflections from the 
> torso as another spatial clue.
> 
> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
> 
> Richard Dobson
> 
> 
> On 24/01/2018 22:21, Mahboud Zabetian wrote:
>> Hi.  I know this isn't the right list, so if you please know of one, send me 
>> a link please.
>> My daughter's doing a project for school.  She wants to install two mono 
>> mics on a mannequin head, and record left and right from each so that she 
>> can do some experiments with how human ears hear sounds spatially.  She'll 
>> be combining the two mics into one mic jack and then use AudioEngine on iOS 
>> to record two separate files of audio simultaneously.  She will then play 
>> with the audio files on a Mac to make or break her hypotheses.
>> I'm in charge of microphone procurement.  I wanted something relatively flat 
>> that could be installed in an over-the-head headphone, so that she could 
>> easily go from mannequin to a person's head.  I wanted it to work well 
>> without an amp, since that would just complicate things for her (I can't 
>> help her more than to pay for the microphone or show her the AudioEngine 
>> sample code).
>> Any tips would be appreciated.  (Good audio visualization tools would be 
>> great too.  She may be getting some help from a university professor who 
>> suggested studying the waves on an oscilloscope.  These days there must be 
>> plenty of tools on the Mac or iOS, no?)
>> Thank you.
>> mahboud
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