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

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 dave.mal...@york.ac.uk 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

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

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