On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:21:01PM +0100, Richard W.E. Furse wrote: > Now there's a subject and a half. Ambisonics is *different* to 5.1 and has > advantages and disadvantages (mostly advantages IMHO). Much of the power of > Ambisonic encoding is that you can find an optimal decoding strategy for > whatever speakers are available and you don't need a hardware decoder (there > are a number of software ones included in the CMT plugin set). > > Anyone wanting to find out about Ambisonics might be interested in taking a > look at http://www.muse.demon.co.uk/3daudio.html.
Thanks, I'm very interested in ambisonics, but was put off by the price of the equipment, looks like decoding is covered then. Do you know if its posible to build a soundfield type mic using cheap elements, or does it require really good ones? - Steve
