Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-23 Thread Dave Malham
Before I retired, I intended to remove the ppu's for our Tetramic from their individual tubes and mount them all into a single 25mm (or there abouts) tube, with a ST450 standard connector at one end and a mini-xlr recessed into the other. The mic would then plug directly into this with a degree of

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:19:39AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: lemo (for use, not for soldering :), and if you have a bank account in the same country as the manufacturer... Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 11/18/2013 09:33 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:19:39AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: lemo (for use, not for soldering :), and if you have a bank account in the same country as the manufacturer... i've inherited a few lemos from my great granddad, and i'm

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-17 Thread Michael Chapman
--On 16 November 2013 06:31 + Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: --fiddling to get the correct one of (?)24 possible permutations of the four capsules to the snake is a ! Especially in dim lighting ... and you didn't bring a lamp ... and ... A dab of four coloured paints on the

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-17 Thread Eric Benjamin
discussion group sursound@music.vt.edu Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:19 AM Subject: Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach --On 16 November 2013 06:31 + Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: --fiddling to get the correct one of (?)24 possible permutations of the four capsules to the snake

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 11/17/2013 10:55 PM, Eric Benjamin wrote: I'm trying to get an overall sense of what people's objections are. It seems that the mini XLRs are OK, but just OK, but suspending the phantom power eliminators has caused problems for users? I've used mini XLRs in lots of projects for more than 25

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-16 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 16 November 2013 06:31 + Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: --fiddling to get the correct one of (?)24 possible permutations of the four capsules to the snake is a ! Especially in dim lighting ... and you didn't bring a lamp ... and ... A dab of four coloured paints on the

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-16 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 11/15/2013 07:23 PM, Len Moskowitz wrote: J?rn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net wrote: the tetra sounds great, but the connectors are very flimsy. The connectors are all from Switchcraft's Tini-Q (mini-XLR) series, used in many professional products and contexts. In the six

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-16 Thread David Pickett
At 10:03 16-11-13, Paul Hodges wrote: --On 16 November 2013 06:31 + Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote: --fiddling to get the correct one of (?)24 possible permutations of the four capsules to the snake is a ! Especially in dim lighting ... and you didn't bring a lamp ... and

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-15 Thread Emanuele
Hello Jörn, brilliant, thanks so much for your answer. As far as I understand the Tetramic has TA3 and TA6 connectors (AKA mimi XLR) which I use on a daily basis with my SD552 and 788T with no problem. What is the problem you encoutered with them? Also they claim to sound as good as a DPA mic,

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Chapman
In that case for my ambiences and nature recordings unfortunately it will give me so issues to work with. Don't think there is _an_ answer for nature recording, though be glad to be proved wrong. Fons' TetraMic+Parabola interests me greatly ... though obviously the output is not periphonic

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-15 Thread Len Moskowitz
J?rn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net wrote: the tetra sounds great, but the connectors are very flimsy. The connectors are all from Switchcraft's Tini-Q (mini-XLR) series, used in many professional products and contexts. In the six years since TetraMic was introduced, we've had

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Chapman
J?rn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net wrote: the tetra sounds great, but the connectors are very flimsy. The connectors are all from Switchcraft's Tini-Q (mini-XLR) series, used in many professional products and contexts. In the six years since TetraMic was introduced, we've

[Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-14 Thread Emanuele
Hello everyone, I've been lurking this list for a while and I would like to have some help to approach the Ambisonic technique. I used pretty much all kind of multichannel configurations during the years and currently I'm using mainly my own technique. I never approached Ambisonic for its

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonic first approach

2013-11-14 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 11/14/2013 07:19 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 11/14/2013 06:31 PM, Emanuele wrote: Thanks for your answer Jörn, have you got any of those, and if you have are you using them on the field and how do they behave and sound for nature recordings? replying off-list, since this has been