Re: [Sursound] Soundfield-type mics: inverting or not?

2011-10-09 Thread David Pickett
At 04:16 09/10/2011, dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: Does anyone know, of the top of their heads, if a film set type clapper board reliably provides a positive going leading edge to it's impulse? I can't see it not, but I'd prefer that to be confirmed by repeatable experiments. It surely has

Re: [Sursound] Great responses to my post--thanks!

2011-12-04 Thread David Pickett
At 21:29 04/12/2011, Hector Centeno wrote: Here is an example recording I made: http://soundcloud.com/hcenteno/kids-running-in-the-wychwood-barns Thanks! It sounds good to me played on earbuds... David ___ Sursound mailing list

Re: [Sursound] Nowt new under t'sun

2011-12-21 Thread David Pickett
Was there also a patent for a ribbon mic in the UK, perhaps even earlier? (Blumlein?) David At 05:29 21/12/2011, dave.mal...@york.ac.uk wrote: I think I've answered my own question - here's Harry F. Olson's patent for the ribbon mic http://www.google.com/patents/US1885001 from March 31st

Re: [Sursound] preservation of relevant materials

2012-02-15 Thread David Pickett
At 07:28 15/02/2012, Paul Hodges wrote: When I was there (around 1970) there would be separate teams at the Proms from Radio and TV (not so often at that time), and sometimes a third from BBC Enterprises for sale abroad. Three separate balancing facilities in different places for the same

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 22

2012-03-27 Thread David Pickett
At 17:32 27/03/2012, Augustine Leudar wrote: actually I was considering the RME HDSPe RayDAT which is actually the same price as the lightpipe but I would have to use a desktop and I want to use a fast laptop with a ssd drive (thus the need for firewire) Firewire is on the way out. Few

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-31 Thread David Pickett
At 05:30 31/03/2012, Eero Aro wrote: The Soundfield microphone didn't attract sound engineers because it was so expensive. In my experience, early models were also very fussy regarding output levels: either noisy or distorted. The expense kicks in when professionally one needs more than

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-31 Thread David Pickett
At 14:04 31/03/2012, Eero Aro wrote: David Pickett wrote: In my experience, early models were also very fussy regarding output levels: either noisy or distorted. As is common in Sursound, we are drifting out from the thread subject Not really drifting: this is a very good reason why the SF

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-03-31 Thread David Pickett
At 14:33 31/03/2012, Paul Hodges wrote: --On 31 March 2012 12:53 -0400 newme...@aol.com wrote: Music of the ordinary sort is in front . . . Yes it is! Which is why Ambisonics makes *no* sense for the FRONT in a musical reproduction system. Music of the ordinary sort being the music

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-04-01 Thread David Pickett
/03/2012, Eero Aro wrote: David Pickett wrote: One of the most exciting recordings I have is the Tallis Scholars' later version of the Allegri Miserere Here is another great performance and recording: 2L29SACD Ensemble 96 IMMORTAL NYSTEDT http://www.2l.no/ Amazing! Not Ambisonics, not SFM

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-04-01 Thread David Pickett
I have tried playing three channels over two speakers. I used Gerzon's equations, with inverted crosstalk -- does one need anything more sophisticated? I achieved this in Totalmix with my RME FF800. It sounds good, but the L/R speakers need to be on 90 degree axes, which implies a large

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-04-01 Thread David Pickett
At 18:28 01/04/2012, Neil Waterman wrote: I agree totally with Robert here. Most of my work mates have 5.1 set-ups at home, but would never be bothered to have anything that required more thought, so bring on the 5.1 mixes of ambisonic source material and at least let the masses get a

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-02 Thread David Pickett
At 10:34 02/04/2012, Robert Greene wrote: It may be old but it is still all but universal in acoustic concert music. I think it is disingenuous to say that it is not. How many symphony concerts have you been to recently where the orchestra surrounded the audience. The other way around, sure. But

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-04-02 Thread David Pickett
At 11:33 02/04/2012, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: On 2 Apr 2012, at 17:57, Eero Aro eero@dlc.fi wrote: Because Nimbus Records devoted themselves strictly to one point miking, they didn't record any operas, as the singers, choir and the orchestra are scattered in a large area and you cannot

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-03 Thread David Pickett
At 08:49 03/04/2012, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: Frankly, I have ZERO interest in 2nd and higher-order Ambisonics, because anything beyond a 5.1/4.0 setup is impractical in any home listening environment for 90%+ of consumers, particularly if the speakers and amps are supposed to be of a quality

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please?

2012-04-03 Thread David Pickett
At 14:01 02/04/2012, Aaron Heller wrote: I put some files at http://ambisonics.dreamhosters.com/DTS/ I downloaded, cut onto CD and listened to the finale of Brahms I, which I have conducted several times (where was this recorded?). It is the first time I have heard 4.0 from a CD and for

Re: [Sursound] DTS files (was Re: Can anyone ...)

2012-04-04 Thread David Pickett
, and the Brahms after further tweaking by Richard Lee and Eric Benjamin. Thanks Aaron On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:12 PM, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: At 14:01 02/04/2012, Aaron Heller wrote: I put some files at http://ambisonics.dreamhosters.com/DTS/ I downloaded, cut onto CD

Re: [Sursound] DTS files (was Re: Can anyone ...)

2012-04-05 Thread David Pickett
At 00:43 05/04/2012, Dave Malham wrote: On 5 April 2012 02:22, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: My normal method of playing first order is to load B format WXY .wav files into Samplitude, matrix them and add shelf filters, but I have not yet successfully discovered how to convert

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? New Title and questions...

2012-04-11 Thread David Pickett
At 22:10 10/04/2012, Robert Greene wrote: One thing that crosses my mind is this: and a lot more... I dont often agree with Robert, but I agree with him entirely in this posting. Second, in the exploration of why Ambisonics did not succeed commercially(yet), it seems to me important

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread David Pickett
At 02:37 13/04/2012, Paul Hodges wrote: Actually, I'd be interested to know how many people on this list listen to surround recordings on a surround system for simple pleasure, as opposed to in the lab or as part of specific investigations of the process. I try to do this; but it is not

Re: [Sursound] Spatial music

2012-04-15 Thread David Pickett
At 19:14 14/04/2012, JEFF SILBERMAN wrote: I'm thinking that the 99% own flatscreens by now. Is that really so? My tv wont die. I dont use it for anything than videos, but I see no need to replace it simply because it takes up a lot of space. David

Re: [Sursound] Spatial music

2012-04-15 Thread David Pickett
At 10:22 15/04/2012, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: On 15 Apr 2012, at 15:57, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: At 19:14 14/04/2012, JEFF SILBERMAN wrote: I'm thinking that the 99% own flatscreens by now. Is that really so? My tv wont die. I dont use it for anything than videos, but I see

Re: [Sursound] Spatial music

2012-04-15 Thread David Pickett
At 10:22 15/04/2012, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: On 15 Apr 2012, at 15:57, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: At 19:14 14/04/2012, JEFF SILBERMAN wrote: I'm thinking that the 99% own flatscreens by now. Is that really so? My tv wont die. I dont use it for anything than videos, but I see

Re: [Sursound] Why Ambisonics Didn't Become A Standard, OT: Spatial Music; Low Cost Speakers

2012-04-15 Thread David Pickett
At 19:44 15/04/2012, Len Moskowitz wrote: A lot of stuff, with which I agree, plus: Ronald Antony talked about the cost of good speakers being a barrier: ... and anything halfway acceptable is on a good sale at least $250/speaker. This has changed in the last ten years. Good speakers today

Re: [Sursound] audio point / audio plenum

2012-04-19 Thread David Pickett
At 21:48 18/04/2012, Robert Greene wrote: It is interesting how this more or less obvious point- that localizing discrete sources and localizing all the(often multiple( reflections that make up the whole spatial impression would be one supposes related--has escapted the popular press

Re: [Sursound] audio point / audio plenum

2012-04-20 Thread David Pickett
At 11:09 19/04/2012, lenmoskow...@optonline.net wrote: David Picket wrote: This gives the lie to those who believe in putting the microphones where it sounds best to their ears -- in my opinion, a recipe for disaster if ever there was one. It's a perfectly correct approach for binaural

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics?

2012-06-02 Thread David Pickett
At 11:49 02/06/2012, Dave Malham wrote: Okay, understood. In the course of thinking about this, I've come to the idea that maybe the problem is with the whole concept of spreading like this. When we localise a sound source, there's a lot of information in the transients, which will, of course,

[Sursound] The Ghent System

2012-06-18 Thread David Pickett
Omitting the SQ matrixing, and using it for 4.0, has anyone here experience of the Ghent System that was invented by Ben Bauer et al in the 70s? It was written up with equations for getting from what we now call WXY in JAES Jan/Feb 1978, VOl.26, No.1/2, wherein there is mention of recordings

Re: [Sursound] Trans-Dimensional Portal

2012-10-07 Thread David Pickett
At 15:53 07/10/2012, John Leonard wrote: I'm strictly non-Facebook and I'm afraid I'm not going to change my views, even for Ambisonics. I am with you, John, and the others that have agreed. David ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] [OT] FB etc. (was: Re: Trans-Dimensional Portal)

2012-10-08 Thread David Pickett
At 22:19 08/10/2012, Robert Greene wrote: it is quite true that the search engines, for all their remarkable power, do not promote in -depth study of things or issues. Too much piffle comes up too easily--if commercial interests are invovled I have also found this to be a problem and use, eg,

Re: [Sursound] The quietest place on Earth : Tours Classes, USA

2012-10-24 Thread David Pickett
In the USA it is usually even higher! At 12:10 24/10/2012, Eero Aro wrote: Hi The site says that an average conversation runs at about 30 decibels I wonder where in the world? Compared to what? A decibel is a ratio. Normal discussion usually at around 45-50 dB(A). Journalists... Eero

Re: [Sursound] Upgrading a voice recorder with a hex editor - TEAC VR-20 to Tascam DR-08 audio recorder

2012-11-10 Thread David Pickett
Read also the comments... david At 15:50 10-11-12, Andrew Castiglione wrote: Hi! For the 'Geeks' among us. http://hackaday.com/2012/11/10/upgrading-a-voice-recorder-with-a-hex-editor/ The solution to improving the bitrate for the TEAC VR-20 was as simple as copying the first 20 bytes from

Re: [Sursound] Quietest place on Earth revisited

2012-11-24 Thread David Pickett
At 08:46 24-11-12, Eric Carmichel wrote: Back in October (Sursound Digest, Vol 51, Issue 24, to be exact) there was a post regarding places to visit, and Orfield Labs, the quietest place on Earth was showcased. It was then pointed out that the BBC article (link below) said, an average

Re: [Sursound] Proximity illusions - WFS vs HOA

2012-12-12 Thread David Pickett
I must have missed the beginning of this. What does WFS stand for? W... Field System? David At 06:10 12-12-12, Augustine Leudar wrote: Ok lets have a proximity off ! One of the things that interests me most in the work Im doing is creating proximity illusions. One member of this board asked my

Re: [Sursound] Array for sound field recording and extend the sound image

2013-01-08 Thread David Pickett
At 11:54 08-01-13, Tim Collins wrote: You can make a velocity microphone by subtracting two closely spaced omnis. I seem to recall that Blumlein did this and also found that the s-n ratio was poor. David ___ Sursound mailing list

Re: [Sursound] (no subject)

2013-03-04 Thread David Pickett
At 04:50 04-03-13, Harry Saunders wrote: SPAM removed Can the list owner please do something to remove this person, who has poasted four SPAM messages, three in the past week? David ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] (no subject)

2013-03-04 Thread David Pickett
know On 4 March 2013 14:24, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: At 04:50 04-03-13, Harry Saunders wrote: SPAM removed Can the list owner please do something to remove this person, who has poasted four SPAM messages, three in the past week? David

Re: [Sursound] In memory of ETD... and a separate topic

2013-04-14 Thread David Pickett
At 12:53 14-04-13, Martin Leese wrote: It wasn't just hi-fi; male hobbies tended to pass in waves. This could be seen in the hobbyist magazines popular in the UK. Prior to hi-fi it was photography, with magazines such as Amateur Photographer. This died away, and the next wave was hi-fi, with

Re: [Sursound] Re-re-inventing the wheel

2013-04-20 Thread David Pickett
At 11:24 20-04-13, Eric Carmichel wrote: Just received an email which - seems someone else is reinventing the Soundfield again - see http://www.quaud.io/ This time it's based on mems microphones and is very small so it ends up using blind source separation in order to get good source-interference

Re: [Sursound] Re-re-inventing the wheel

2013-04-20 Thread David Pickett
At 15:27 20-04-13, Sampo Syreeni wrote: If one regards the subcardioid as made up of omni and figure of eight components, is it not the case that the ambisonic XYZ signals of the Soundfield Mic are derived solely from the figure of eight components? Not quite, because at high frequencies the

Re: [Sursound] DVD-A:Burn

2013-04-21 Thread David Pickett
At 18:29 21-04-13, Michael Dunn wrote: I just discovered Burn (free), which purports to supports DVD-A burning! Woo. Anyone have experience with this, or other, free DVD-A burning SW? Not free, but a steal at the low price they are asking is Cirlinca's software. It does gap-free recording.

Re: [Sursound] What does a mic with more than 4 channels give you?

2013-04-25 Thread David Pickett
At 18:28 25-04-13, Sampo Syreeni wrote: At middle C, 440Hz, you're down to under 20 centimetres. At 1kHz which is about at the center of our most acute hearing, it's only 8-9 centimetres. Just for the record 440Hz is nearer to the A above middle C, and the centre of our most acute hearing

Re: [Sursound] what mics do you use?

2013-04-25 Thread David Pickett
At 15:29 25-04-13, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: Given the subject of mics: Has anyone experience with this here: http://www.nevatonmics.com/pdf/Nevaton_Flyer_centerfold_v2.pdf Their mics are expensive, though they look nice on the outside and the electronics appear to be good; but the

Re: [Sursound] What does a mic with more than 4 channels give you?

2013-04-25 Thread David Pickett
At 20:35 25-04-13, Robert Greene wrote: Not nearer--exactly! 440 A is the standard pitch in the Western world, though orchestra often shade this up a bit. Middle C is around 261.6 Hz I wrote that tongue in cheek... Most orchestras in Europe are considerably sharper and sound to my ears

Re: [Sursound] EBU workshop on immersive audio over headphones

2013-04-26 Thread David Pickett
At 05:30 26-04-13, Chris Pike wrote: The programme contains an excellent array of speakers from the broadcasting industry and academia, with panel discussions and many demonstrations. an array of speakers... An ambiguous collective noun in the context! David

Re: [Sursound] Pitch(OT)

2013-04-26 Thread David Pickett
At 04:50 26-04-13, Richard Dobson wrote: I am not clear just what the issue is here. The issue is that if one is going to be precise about the Physics and Maths discussed here, one should preferably extend that precision to musical considerations. ...there is nothing otherwise special

Re: [Sursound] Pitch(OT)

2013-04-26 Thread David Pickett
At 14:30 26-04-13, Paul Hodges wrote: --On 26 April 2013 14:12 -0500 David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: Yes, but mostly the bottom note is an A, with only once a G. And when you get to the important fortissimo top Es and Fs, do you leave them to the Tenors? Eh, what do you sing? I can

Re: [Sursound] DTS Headphone:X

2013-04-29 Thread David Pickett
In Firefox, you just need to hit file/save page as to download. David At 09:53 29-04-13, Jon Honeyball wrote: Could you zip it? Would make it easier to download here, otherwise it tries to play in web browser. Or I am being very dim today (which is entirely possible!) Thanks jon On

Re: [Sursound] Sony PCM? (was Re: DTS Headphone:X)

2013-04-29 Thread David Pickett
At 10:59 29-04-13, Dave Malham wrote: A few months ago I had to sort out a PCM701 with one of my spdif cards in (the ones I used to do for Audio Design). We went through three PCM units before we found one that worked fully in replay mode (the original, one from the Uni and the final one, off

Re: [Sursound] Sony PCM? (was Re: DTS Headphone:X)

2013-04-29 Thread David Pickett
At 11:34 29-04-13, Dave Malham wrote: It is possible but I wasn't at all sure that it wasn't the ceramic resonator used in the oscillator. What mechanism causes deterioration in one of these? David ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Sony PCM? (was Re: DTS Headphone:X)

2013-04-29 Thread David Pickett
At 12:37 29-04-13, Kees de Visser wrote: Great idea though (same for a software Dolby A/SR decoder, which isn't avaialble AFAIK). A standalone Windows app that would decode Dolby-A encoded wavefiles and output a restored non-Dolby 24-bit wavefile would be most useful. I have several

Re: [Sursound] Sony PCM? (was Re: DTS Headphone:X)

2013-05-01 Thread David Pickett
At 16:02 01-05-13, Fons Adriaensen wrote: The difficult part in writing any software emulation of the Dolby-A or similar systems is modelling the dynamic behaviour of the compander, not the actual audio processing. Such systems will have 'designed' and documented attack/release times, but analog

Re: [Sursound] [ot] analog vs. digital

2013-05-01 Thread David Pickett
At 16:47 01-05-13, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2013-05-01, David Pickett wrote: So, analog still rules! Please die horribly. ;) You say that, but I have recently been transferring old cassettes to hard drive and, given that they have a limited bandwidth of about 15kHz, the noise

Re: [Sursound] [ot] analog vs. digital

2013-05-01 Thread David Pickett
At 17:59 01-05-13, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2013-05-01, David Pickett wrote: You say that, but I have recently been transferring old cassettes to hard drive and, given that they have a limited bandwidth of about 15kHz, the noise is not intrusive and I have been amazed at the quality

Re: [Sursound] [allowed] Re: Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-20 Thread David Pickett
At 00:50 18-05-13, Robert Greene wrote: Of course in those live versus canned experiments(also with AR) reverberation tended to make things sound pretty much the same to smooth out errors and so on. Reverberation in the RFH pre 1966? David ___

Re: [Sursound] [allowed] Re: Recreating a 3d soundfield with lots of mics.....

2013-05-21 Thread David Pickett
At 12:16 21-05-13, Robert Greene wrote: Even dead concert halls in the relative sense have a lot of reverberation. A really dead hall still has a 1 second reverberation time say and most of what you hear in the audience is still reverberant sound. Did you ever hear an orchestra playing in the

Re: [Sursound] Making a standalone 8ch player

2013-05-28 Thread David Pickett
At 02:03 28/5/2013, Dave Malham wrote: On 15ips tape - yes, this is fairly limited in one way, that 20 k or less was often the cut-off frequency, that was the 3dB point, but the roll off was very slow, often only 6dB per Octave at first until near the first extinction point caused by the head

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-01 Thread David Pickett
At 09:54 1/6/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: BTW, did you ever look through what Z really does to you *encoding* equations? Formally, in order to arrive at proper pantophony you always have to either reject Z fully or purposely subtract it from the whole B-format signal set. Otherwise, even

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread David Pickett
At 19:55 1/6/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2013-06-01, David Pickett wrote: What I take this to mean is that if one is using WXY (derived from A-format) for horizontal only playback, W will contain unwanted vertical information that should be discarded. Correct for W, but also for X and Y

Re: [Sursound] Nevaton microphones

2013-06-02 Thread David Pickett
At 11:23 2/6/2013, Michael Chapman wrote: At 19:55 1/6/2013, Sampo Syreeni wrote: On 2013-06-01, David Pickett wrote: What I take this to mean is that if one is using WXY (derived from A-format) for horizontal only playback, W will contain unwanted vertical information that should be discarded

Re: [Sursound] Testing left, center, right...

2013-06-23 Thread David Pickett
At 16:13 23/6/2013, Martin Leese wrote: Others have mentioned Trifield. The definitive paper for this is: M.A. Gerzon, Optimum Reproduction Matrices for Multispeaker Stereo, J. Audio Engineering Society, vol. 40 no. 7/8, pp. 571-589 (1992 July/Aug.) There are two complementary papers on this

Re: [Sursound] Of stereo miking, Fourier analysis, and Ambisonics

2013-06-28 Thread David Pickett
At 06:34 28/6/2013, Eric Carmichel wrote: The technique assumes that the live source is *stereo* too; that is, a stage ahead of the mics with musicians aligned in rows that have L-R orientations. Actually, if you think about it, the Blumlein technique assumes that the musicians are arranged in

Re: [Sursound] Giving Precedence to Ambisonics

2013-06-28 Thread David Pickett
At 19:02 26/6/2013, Eric Carmichel wrote: I have a friend who's an advocate of the Decca Tree mic arrangement. Many of his recordings (a lot of choir and guitar) sound quite nice, Decca Trees sound nice on choirs because they do not have precise stereo imaging and thus one cannot hear

Re: [Sursound] A higher standard of standardness

2013-07-03 Thread David Pickett
At 06:31 3/7/2013, Robert Greene wrote: Variations from reality ought surely to be based on knowing how to reproduce the reality first and then introducing the variations. One does not bend pitches for artistic effect until one is able to play in tune, so to speak. Yes, indeed; but such

Re: [Sursound] Questions about 5.1 monitors angle.

2013-08-07 Thread David Pickett
At 02:02 7/8/2013, =?gb18030?B?wdikzg==?= wrote: Hi there, There are an 5.1 monitor room needed to be build and the angle has been settled as (+-30, 0, +-120degrees). I've searched some references and some of them suggests for movie should be (+-25,0,+-110degrees), some said the typical 5.1

Re: [Sursound] Very inexpensive surround speakers

2013-09-25 Thread David Pickett
At 15:47 25-09-13, Alessandro Fogar wrote: I'k like to monitor some work of mine realized mainly using ATK and Sc3 i.e. first order ambisonics. Could you plase suggest me some very small and inexpensive speakers ? How about two pairs of these:

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics Channel ID Wave File in B-format

2013-11-09 Thread David Pickett
At 18:20 09-11-13, Alvin Foster wrote: Can anyone provide a link to an Ambisonics B-format wave file that pin points at least 6-locations or speakers in the movie 5.1 listening space? I would like: Left-Right-Left Side-Right Side, Center, LFE. The suggested locations are actually for movie 5.1

Re: [Sursound] New native B-Format microphone!

2013-11-14 Thread David Pickett
At 12:31 14-11-13, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: I think I rememeber it is horizontal only and using xy cardeoids and syntesising the omni signal by taking the singals and adding with phase inverign for 2 signals. If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that hoizontal ambisonic (alias

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] Spatial Audio Workshop: Fri Nov 22nd 4-7pm

2013-11-21 Thread David Pickett
WOW! All this in three hours! David At 06:35 21-11-13, Navid Navab wrote: A spatial audio workshop on Friday, Nov. 22nd from 4 - 7pm. Location: MB 8.245, Concordia University (1450 Guy St, Montréal, QC) Poster

Re: [Sursound] Spatial Audio Workshop: Fri Nov 22nd 4-7pm

2013-11-21 Thread David Pickett
Dear Robin, More wanking, this time in Quebec! What the f..k is an alkemist -- see end? And they are going to cover all this in 3 hours... Cheers, David A spatial audio workshop on Friday, Nov. 22nd from 4 - 7pm. Location: MB 8.245, Concordia University (1450 Guy St, Montréal, QC)

Re: [Sursound] New Ambisonic VST Plugins

2013-11-22 Thread David Pickett
At 18:12 22-11-13, Richard Furse wrote: Yes - there basically aren't any problems applying the processing operations to material that is only first order. Feeding first order material to a third order decoder raises more subtle issues. I have obviously missed something. How does one record in

Re: [Sursound] DeWolfe Library Music - Ambisonics confusion

2013-12-04 Thread David Pickett
At 12:31 04-12-13, Michael Chapman wrote: I would say ambisonics is a 'dictionary word' (though I haven't looked in any dictionaries). Whatever, it has been in use a long time and unprotected. It doesnt hurt to ask, since it can be shown that the word has had specific useage for a long time.

Re: [Sursound] Conference.

2014-01-16 Thread David Pickett
Dave, Your link gives a quai-404 message: Die aufgerufene Seite existiert nicht. Entweder ist ihr Link fehlerhaft oder die Seite wurde verschoben. Were you referring to this? http://www.tonmeister.de/index.php?p=tonmeistertagung/2014 David At 08:29 16-01-14, Dave Malham wrote: This

Re: [Sursound] Conference.

2014-01-17 Thread David Pickett
Asctually, I think Francis Rumsey's keynote speech looks interesting, and I would be interested to read members' comments on the abstryt below. David Spatial audio – reconstructing reality or creating illusion? (Talk) The history of spatial audio is essentially one about the dichotomy

Re: [Sursound] [OT] Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate position at DXARTS

2014-02-28 Thread David Pickett
Dear Robin, I am sure you are right about Bennett: you go back a long way with Scarecrow and I am just jaundiced about US publishers (e.g. OUP!) Got this in my inbox. mechatronics and digital fabrication??? Brave New World that I am glad not to be a part of... With all those

Re: [Sursound] 4 D sound (!)

2014-03-05 Thread David Pickett
At 23:43 05-03-14, Aaron Heller wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:52 PM, David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: At 21:06 05-03-14, Dave Hunt wrote: 1. 4 D sound (!) (Dave Malham) 2. Re: 4 D sound (!) (Ronald C.F. Antony) 3. Re: 4 D sound (!) (Dave Malham) 4. Re: 4 D sound

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

2014-03-16 Thread David Pickett
I just stumbled on this: http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/radio3/faq.html I have an appropriate soundcard; but am not sure I want to install Google Chrome... (Bummer that it doesnt work on Firefox!) has anyone David ___ Sursound mailing list

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

2014-03-16 Thread David Pickett
At 18:55 16-03-14, Augustine Leudar wrote: Good find ! Chrome isn't so bad actually - I use it firefox and opera - chrome is by far the fastest to load and less memory hungry than firefox though I too prefer firefox Ok, if I take a chance oin Chrome not taking over my machine, then the

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

2014-03-16 Thread David Pickett
At 19:30 16-03-14, Augustine Leudar wrote: right mouse button over volume control in bottom right hand corner playack devices click RME set default restart browser/applet On that panel each of the pairs of RME output is presented separately... (I'll look for the documentation on the

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

2014-03-17 Thread David Pickett
Having tried earlier to get this to work -- unsuccessfully because I was messing with the Realtek HD Audio Manager which turend out to be irrelevant -- I decided to have another go at fooled around with my PC and, as is often the case, it suddenly started doing what I wanted (perseverance is

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

2014-03-17 Thread David Pickett
At 21:07 17-03-14, Augustine Leudar wrote: I installed Chrome (having previously set a System Restore Point), You are such a drama queen :) I'm glad you got it working though - Ill have to try this out No. I have learned not to trust dwnloaded software, after some bad experiences! :-) A

Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ

2014-03-17 Thread David Pickett
At 23:03 17-03-14, mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: Weren't the first digital recorders actually adapted helical scan video ones? Because, I mean, those things are line accurate by necessity, so that once you have them time coded, you ought to be able to get sample accurate registration of the

[Sursound] BBC Concert tonight

2014-03-17 Thread David Pickett
Pace Paul, by the time it got to the third movement of the Dvorak, I was quite impressed. The Festival Hall is not over-endowed with ambiance, but when I turned the back up a bit, what I heard was akin to what I often hear in a concert hall when not too close to the stage, as opposed to when

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

[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] 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] 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)

2014-03-19 Thread David Pickett
At 23:33 18-03-14, Paul Hodges wrote: --On 18 March 2014 23:18 +0100 David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: BBC server went down several times this evening. What I don't understand is why things like that go down so easily; it may be hard to get a computer system running, but if it's done even

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

2014-03-19 Thread David Pickett
Mar 2014, at 07:33, David Pickett wrote: I suspect that most of the problems last night were at the originating end, though there were cases when there were beats missing as the stream caught up, which seemed more likely to be delays in the Internet. from the BBC blog: 21. Rupert Brun, 18TH

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

2014-03-20 Thread David Pickett
to it, and no errors were reported by the software. But I am guessing... David --On 19 March 2014 18:47 +0100 David Pickett d...@fugato.com wrote: A bit scary that, as Paul said, Microsoft employ SRC automatically if you get it wrong... Actually, after thinking about this, I suspect it's

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

2014-03-30 Thread David Pickett
According to Rupert Brun, Head of Technology for BBC Radio, the rate used for the 4.0 streaming frm the South Bank was 48kHz. What I dont like is that one can record the stream at 44.1kHz and the sample rate conversion appears to be dont in Windows. Is there a means of actually showing the

Re: [Sursound] MS output to 3 loudspeakers

2014-04-08 Thread David Pickett
At 21:06 08-04-14, David Pickett wrote: http://www.stereophile.com/content/upward-mobility-2-channels-surr ound-page-2 There are also ways of Matrixing LR stereo to LCR described by Gerzon in Hierarchical Transmission System for Multispeaker Stereo, JAES, Vol.40, No.9, Sep 1992 (and another

[Sursound] ÖRF Surround Sound ISO Image

2014-04-13 Thread David Pickett
This well-known website gives details of the ÖRF Surround tests: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=68:orf-surround-techniques-comparisoncatid=29:stereoItemid=58 I downloaded the ISO file here:

Re: [Sursound] B-Fromat microphone

2014-05-05 Thread David Pickett
Bravo on the mic! I have played your file (as my set up is restricted to 4.0 horizontal mode, I have only matrixed channels W, X Y). I find it difficult to know at what level to set the W channel, as what appears to be going on all around is (excuse me, no offence intended!) rather

[Sursound] format

2014-05-13 Thread David Pickett
Does anybody know why I am receiving (only from this list and not from any other listservers) postings without any line-breaks? I find them impossible to read. An example is below, although it may well have truncations that impose linebreaks by the time it is redistributed, which will make

Re: [Sursound] format

2014-05-13 Thread David Pickett
I am on Window$ 7. Using Eudora for email. The problem is not in evidence with every posting, but it has been much worse recently. David At 11:39 13-05-14, Michael Chapman wrote: Does anybody know why I am receiving (only from this list and not from any other listservers) postings without

Re: [Sursound] 16-Channel Surround Concert - 7th June, Derby, UK

2014-06-03 Thread David Pickett
What does one need to decode this? David At 16:44 03-06-14, Bruce Wiggins wrote: A live binaural audio/video stream of the event (7.30 BST [GMT + 1] Saturday 7th June) will be available at the following page: http://sigma7rosetta.co.uk/ cheers Bruce On 20 May 2014 10:19, Eero Aro

Re: [Sursound] 16-Channel Surround Concert - 7th June, Derby, UK

2014-06-03 Thread David Pickett
So no surround streaming? Just two-channels? 4.0 would be nice... (!) David At 17:36 03-06-14, Eero Aro wrote: David Pickett wrote: What does one need to decode this? To decode binaural? Cans, two ears. Eero ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound

Re: [Sursound] bbc gear for sale

2014-06-04 Thread David Pickett
Dear Granville, I hear there is BBC gear for auction here, though I cant find much of interest: http://www.ppauctions.com/_assets/auctions/115/flysheet/Flysheet.pdf Cheers, David ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu

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