Re: [Sursound] BBC Streaming trial

2014-03-18 Thread David Pickett
At 02:47 18-03-14, Marc Lavallée wrote: Are the 4 channels streams available after the concert? It seems that they are realtime only. David ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound

Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/18/2014 04:19 AM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: In this case I spoke of 3h and 3h1p .AMB files, brought into some LRTQ + extension form. My question if you could not just code this into LRTQ - UV PQ - the latter 4 channels from the B format hierarchy - has not been answered on this list. ;-)

[Sursound] BBC Surround Steaming update

2014-03-18 Thread David Pickett
For the next week or two, BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting the evening concerts live from the South Bank's Pull out all the Stops festival, and as far as I can make out, the intention is to stream all of these in 4.0, using HTML5 with AAC-LC codec at 320kb/s. The concerts all begin at 19:30 GMT

Re: [Sursound] Periphonic Irregular HO Ambisonics Decoder

2014-03-18 Thread /dav/random
matrix... we would be glad to make some comparisons with other methods. Best Davide -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140318/318c536a/attachment.html

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-18 Thread John Leonard
Got back in time to grab the last half-hour or so if the Dvorak, and like others, I found I needed to bring up the surround levels to get an idea of what was on offer. The quality was pretty good, though; certainly better than most of the audio streaming services I've listened to. I can record

Re: [Sursound] BBC Surround Streaming update

2014-03-18 Thread David Pickett
At 12:48 18-03-14, Paul Hodges wrote: Do we know the sample rate of the transmissions? I just tested four-channel recording with the audio interface (and AudioMulch) set to 44.1k (as they happened to be), which worked - but if the sample rate is actually 48k then the Windows SRC will have been

Re: [Sursound] Periphonic Irregular HO Ambisonics Decoder

2014-03-18 Thread /dav/random
. Anyway if you run the code with WBIN = 0, as comes by default, the results are not affected. Ciao, Davide -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20140318/0c608eb8/attachment.html

[Sursound] calibrating ambisonic speakers using the k-system?

2014-03-18 Thread Iain Mott
Hello, I've been reading about how to calibrate monitors with Bob Katz's k-system. Using the SPL meter method, I understand that each channel can be fed a -20dBFS band-limited pink noise signal - and each loudspeaker output adjusted to read 83dB SPL in the meter (or some other desired level).

Re: [Sursound] Auro 3D

2014-03-18 Thread Aaron Heller
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Re: [Sursound] calibrating ambisonic speakers using the k-system?

2014-03-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 01:40:25PM -0300, Iain Mott wrote: What does one do though if one is metering a B-format or other ambisonic signal? Unlike stereo or 5.1 etc. the relationship between a particular channel on the meter and a given loudspeaker channel isn't so direct because of the

Re: [Sursound] calibrating ambisonic speakers using the k-system?

2014-03-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 05:09:21PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: A stereo system calibrated as you describe will output 86 dB SPL if both channels are -20 dB on the K-meter. To calibrate the AMB system, send the pink noise through an AMB panner, set the level for -20 dB RMS in W, and pan

Re: [Sursound] calibrating ambisonic speakers using the k-system?

2014-03-18 Thread Iain Mott
Thanks a lot Fons. When I pan pink noise with at W at -20dBFS RMS, the individual X and Y channels peak at about 3dB higher. Is that why you said to meter at 86dB and not 83? It's curious this thing about the summing of channels. When I first read about k-system monitor calibration, I understood,

Re: [Sursound] Auro 3D

2014-03-18 Thread John Leonard
The mic rig that I've seen on the Tonsturm site (http:www.tonsturm.com) consists of five Schoeps omnis and then four Schoeps wide cardioids about a metre above them, which doesn't really seem that groundbreaking to me. But, as always, I'm happy to be proved wrong. Worth keeping an eye on,

Re: [Sursound] Periphonic Irregular HO Ambisonics Decoder

2014-03-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 06:05:11PM +0100, /dav/random wrote: - The code is not written by software engineers. We have our evident limits. Please don't take this personally, but it shows :-) It's in fact a glorious mess... There are circular dependencies between the modules. Which is why you

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-18 Thread David Pickett
BBC server went down several times this evening. But the rebuilt RFH organ sounded much improved, and from time to time I could imagine I was there. Orchestra and piano tomorrow evening. David ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

[Sursound] HTML5 and sursound.

2014-03-18 Thread David Pickett
I have a question about putting surround on the Internet. Apart from needing the right browser to hear anything, if one uses WAV files, no problem (apparently); but if one is using FLAC or OGG it seems to me that there are potential level and phase problems unless the channels are all

Re: [Sursound] BBC Radio Three Surround Streaming Trial (15. to 31. March)

2014-03-18 Thread Paul Hodges
--On 18 March 2014 23:18 +0100 David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: BBC server went down several times this evening. :-( And I specifically wanted /that/ concert. I had a dinner party, so I started recording and left it - I haven't checked, but presumably that means I have nothing after the

Re: [Sursound] Periphonic Irregular HO Ambisonics Decoder

2014-03-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:34:02PM +0100, /dav/random wrote: It is my first work with python, and I accept any kind of contribution, hint, ticket, code, ... and even ideas on how to restructure it, so it can make more sense. Python + numpy is probably the ideal language for this sort of

Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-18 Thread Stefan Schreiber
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 03/18/2014 04:19 AM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: In this case I spoke of 3h and 3h1p .AMB files, brought into some LRTQ + extension form. My question if you could not just code this into LRTQ - UV PQ - the latter 4 channels from the B format hierarchy - has not been

[Sursound] Sony's VR announcement

2014-03-18 Thread Christian Heinrichs
For those that haven't been following it: there's been a lot of mention of 3D audio in Sony's announcement of their VR devkit just now. Looks like we'll be hearing a lot more of the term 3D Audio in mainstream media from now on!