Re: [Sursound] Construction of purpose built ambisonic studio (J?rn Nettingsmeier)

2014-03-13 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 13 March 2014 07:30 + Dave Malham wrote: > It had an awful focusing effect at > the centre until a brilliant guy in our estates department came up > with a relatively low cost solution which was to get a large (~3-4 > metre diameter) end dish from a beer brewing vessel and suspend it, >

Re: [Sursound] Construction of purpose built ambisonic studio (J?rn Nettingsmeier)

2014-03-13 Thread Dave Malham
I would definitely second Jörn. We had a 16 speaker array (4-8-4) in a room which was hexagonal (with a pitched roof) that comes out as near a hemisphere as far as audio is concerned. It had an awful focusing effect at the centre until a brilliant guy in our estates department came up with a relati

Re: [Sursound] Construction of purpose built ambisonic studio (J?rn Nettingsmeier)

2014-03-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/10/2014 11:50 PM, Steve Boardman wrote: Hi J?rn (not sure what the character '?' is as it always displays that way) an o with double dot. the way i approach it is: * keep the early reflection paths clean for every speaker, like you would for stereo. no reflections < 10 ms is a good thin

Re: [Sursound] Construction of purpose built ambisonic studio (J?rn Nettingsmeier)

2014-03-10 Thread Steve Boardman
Hi J?rn (not sure what the character '?' is as it always displays that way) Wow, thanks for al the info! > still holds for ambisonics. try to get as many different room modes as > possible. This is good news, and obviously what I presumed but it is the idea of the same response from each speak