>The mics are omnis

It might be stating the obvious here but how would you get ANY directional
information out of four OMNI mics close together? :-)

Surely to get a fig-8 response you need two CARDIODS back to back (one of
which is polarity reversed obviously).

Mike Felton


On 7 January 2013 23:19, Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:12:26PM -0800, Aaron Heller wrote:
>
> > Without more details, it hard to speculate about problems, but I'll note
> > that subtracting the outputs of two omnis to get a fig-8 response will
> > result in a frequency response that rises 6dB/octave with a 90 degree
> phase
> > shift relative to the sum.  Unless that is corrected, these signals are
> not
> > suitable for B-format.
>
> Exactly, and it could explain the strange effects in the binaural
> format. But the OP didn't provide any details about the processing
> he uses to obtain B-format.
>
> Ciao,
>
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