Re: [Sursound] speakers the reproduction of samples at high sr

2010-11-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
that a sizeable black cloud had just emanated from the amp rack at position 20 (where the audience was due to arrive in 5, no 4, minutes...) the stink was noticeable 30m down the road. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne

Re: [Sursound] scaling it up - ambisonics with line arrays

2010-12-16 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
hammer while trying to come up with an excuse for not having tried it ages ago will rectify that asap. thanks for this pointer! i had always filed your work as windows-only, maybe later, don't know why. best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics in the Telegraph newspaper

2010-12-16 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
the ambisonic undertakings at the bbc are still newsworthy! best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http

Re: [Sursound] Another plugin inquiry...

2010-12-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
it with a 4x4 room IR that will get stuff right... (in fact, i could use one right now, because the IR sets that i have lack a number of positions i'd need). -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio

[Sursound] does anyone have harry f. olson, gradient microphones, jasa 1946?

2010-12-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
it's cited in philip cotterel's thesis as the original source of the second-order gradient microphone. i can't believe it's not on the web, given its ripe old age. any pointers would be welcome. (and no, i didn't find it in the motherlode either.) thanks in advance, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier

Re: [Sursound] 3DAA | Audio Alliance

2010-12-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
a year, that number will have tripled. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http://stackingdwarves.net

[Sursound] tu berlin/telekom labs soundscape renderer

2011-01-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 12/16/2010 02:21 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 12/16/2010 01:48 PM, sascha.sp...@telekom.de wrote: i need to get a windows box anyway, so i'll have a look at SSR asap... sounds like it allows for easy A/B comparison between the different rendering methods? It currenly runs only under

Re: [Sursound] tu berlin/telekom labs soundscape renderer

2011-01-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, but as it depends on GLUT, ecasound, and a number of other things (with their own dependencies), building it might be a pain. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 30, Issue 7

2011-01-13 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
a look at my website http://www.dtsac3.com this page tried to force a popup on me which was blocked, and another which sneaked past the blocker and told me i was the zillionth visitor to this website and could claim a prize by entering my cell phone number. what the f...? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier

Re: [Sursound] Available UHJ encoders?

2011-01-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
it in a while, requires FLTK iirc. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 30, Issue 9

2011-01-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
correspondent's choice of character encoding, which, in the case of this thread, happens to be ISO-8859-1. your mailer (or the digest mechanism of this list) wrongly assumes us-ascii, and consequently displays ? as placeholders. clearly somebody else's problem, but thanks for the heads-up. -- Jörn

Re: [Sursound] good quality low noise yet miraculously cheap cardiod/unidirectional microphones ?

2011-01-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
octava supply an a-to-b-format conversion tool? if not, you'd be in for some serious DIY... if you want excellent s/n, and you don't need height, use a nimbus-halliday array. beats every tetrahedron at horizontal-only performance. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177

Re: [Sursound] good quality low noise yet miraculously cheap cardiod/unidirectional microphones ?

2011-01-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
a proper convolver. Right? if you want to use cardioids, your best bet will be three at 120° angles. i've played around with such a setup (recorded by fons with three km184), and i found it works quite well. haven't had the chance to use it myself yet. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128

Re: [Sursound] good quality low noise yet miraculously cheap cardiod/unidirectional microphones ?

2011-01-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 01/17/2011 02:33 PM, Paul Hodges wrote: --On 17 January 2011 14:08 +0100 Jörn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net wrote: if you want to use cardioids, your best bet will be three at 120° angles. As briefly used by Michael Gerzon: http://www.michaelgerzonphotos.org.uk/microphones

Re: [Sursound] good quality low noise yet miraculously cheap cardiod/unidirectional microphones ?

2011-01-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
plotting, there's no concept of an inverted polarity lobe, instead r is negative, which means that both halves of the eight are congruent on the positive side). -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio

Re: [Sursound] 3D audio event in Italy

2011-01-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
like to know if it's a purely object-oriented approach or if you can also integrate natural recordings. is the system agnostic to speaker layouts? how does it degrade if, say, a composer works for 24.0 and we have to play back in 5.0 or stereo? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128

Re: [Sursound] 3D audio event in Italy

2011-01-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
a demo if you happen to be in germany (or i in italy). musikmesse, maybe? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
/linux_audio/tmt10/TMT2010_J%c3%b6rn_Nettingsmeier-Higher_order_Ambisonics.pdf best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
to four or more speakers using just three recording channels. that's another huge advantage. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 01/23/2011 01:41 AM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: In fact, the introduced system might deliver better results than say Dolby Pro Logic IIz. that's like saying this new car model is a lot faster than a dead whale on the beach :-D -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49

Re: [Sursound] Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
considerably wider than the speaker angle, without ad-hoc tricks. regards, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio), Elektrofachkraft Audio and event engineer - Ambisonic surround recordings http

Re: [Sursound] Subject: Re: Why do you need to decode ambisonic/b format signals ?

2011-01-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
amplifiers are meant to drive many speakers in parallel, not many channels discretely, so the price per amp channel might be prohibitive. but it does give you the option to run the amps and players outside of the habitat, in conditions appropriate to semiconductors. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier

Re: [Sursound] Masters /PHDs related to surround sound / Sound art in Europe

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, düsseldorf * erich-thienhaus-institut, hochschule für musik detmold -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing

Re: [Sursound] horizontal-only decoder design for line sources

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/20/2011 04:52 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:21:41AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: What is this 'coupling' ? just a frequently used technical term used by p.a. systems engineers to describe the plain simple fact that a reasonably high number of point sources

Re: [Sursound] Ambisonics max/MSP 8 speakers - ICST Ambisonic Externals

2011-03-20 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
to change are the speaker distances. you really want to use third-order panning. best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Hey Hector - Ambisonics ambdec fail on install

2011-03-22 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 03/22/2011 01:39 PM, Anthony Palomba wrote: Can someone please post a link to ambdec? temporary location while fons is having problems with his ISP: http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177

Re: [Sursound] Reflections from the wodden floor on an ambisonic room..

2011-03-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
dangling off a crane or something. i'd say as long as your recording has floor reflections, the added ones won't hurt. best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Reflections from the wooden floor on an ambisonic room

2011-03-29 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
reverberation of the listening room. in the SPIRAL with its RT60 of 0.3s, the effect was quite striking. btw, subjectively, i have found that wet recordings already mask some of the coloration and phasiness, so it's not all due to the listening room. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11

Re: [Sursound] Exciting news anyone?

2011-04-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
order ambisonics. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] NYC-area TetraMic owners? or: advice on a wind-screen

2011-04-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
). best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-04-29 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
will be, too. have to :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-04-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/30/2011 02:12 AM, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: On 29 Apr 2011, at 19:15, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: but you are right, we are still heavily in the DIY + slightly kludgy realm. then again, most ambisonics fans will be, too. have to :) That's large part of the problem of lack of adoption

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
be the only entity that defines the bus semantics. then you need an n-way sum compressor with an intelligent enough (i.e. not very) sidechain to be able to perform a max() operation, and presto: arbitrary order ambisonics. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, that's certainly the way to go. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
luxurious outfit, your material will be able to exploit it. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/02/2011 12:09 AM, Richard Dobson wrote: On 01/05/2011 20:29, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: .. the point is: if you want to produce in tenth order and have the means to do it, your customer can still enjoy it on his/her 2nd order rig. Fine. I agree. But what exactly is a '2nd order rig

Re: [Sursound] Domestic speaker layout (was Re: Minim AD7 for sale)

2011-05-02 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/02/2011 11:50 AM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Mon, 02 May 2011 06:59:40 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier netti...@stackingdwarves.net wrote : not native, but here's a very simple one that has been shoehorned into a third-order workstation: http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/11_3

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-04 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
moved on :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
be worthwhile. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Minim AD7 for sale

2011-05-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
). he was able to comfortably locate all instruments except the double bass (which was at 180°). i encouraged him to turn around a bit, and reported stable localisation after the initial homing-in process, too. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für

Re: [Sursound] HOA standards

2011-05-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
dandelions (the 100 best ambisonic layouts for home use, rouse your spouse - minimally intrusive multichannel systems for your bedroom, kindertotenlieder resurrected - 45 surefire decoder tweaks for a mahler like you've never heard it before). -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel

[Sursound] Linux Audio Conference 2011 starts today with live video stream coverage

2011-05-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
to join us on irc for conference-related chitchat and real-time feedback. at the end of each session, you will get the chance to ask questions to the presenter, which will be relayed to the crowd in maynooth by a local chat operator. best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128

Re: [Sursound] Speaker configs + subwoofers

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
has recommended the KEF eggs more than once, which are coax iiuc. they'd certainly be my HOA dream setup for home use... -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Speaker configs + subwoofers

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
but is to clear if they will suit my needs for ambisonic. can't comment on this, but at 150,- you're not quite in the pro or semi-pro range for studio monitors, hence it might make more sense to look at reasonable consumer offerings and maybe profit from a kit deal. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11

Re: [Sursound] Domestic speaker layout (was Re: Minim AD7 for sale)

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
of treble shelf boost to taste, and that will usually get rid of any clear preference your listening subjects might have, but it does indicate that there is more combing going on at HF. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik

Re: [Sursound] Speaker configs + subwoofers

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
and align it with some delay. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] Speaker configs + subwoofers

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/12/2011 07:55 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Le 12 mai 2011 13:46:56, Jörn Nettingsmeier a écrit : On 05/11/2011 03:42 AM, Marc Lavallée wrote: I like this idea of a full-sphere bass setup. There would be 3 (small) subs on the floor (front-left, front-right, rear-center) and one on the ceiling

Re: [Sursound] Speaker configs + subwoofers

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
in Southampton, they are quite good for the size. what kind of setup was that, and where? ambisonic? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Domestic speaker layout (was Re: Minim AD7 for sale)

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
when moving. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu

Re: [Sursound] Domestic speaker layout (was Re: Minim AD7 for sale)

2011-05-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 05/12/2011 11:13 PM, David Worrall wrote: On 13/05/2011, at 3:35 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: ah well, bad choice of words. below expectations would have been better. the IEM cube (24 speaker hemisphere) I looked at the photo here: http://iem.at/services/studios/cube And I fail to see

Re: [Sursound] Carver sonic hologram unit

2011-05-19 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
time, while all other factors (specifically the W) remained constant? that would be cause for alarm. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

[Sursound] example ardour sessions for ambisonics-stereo production workflow

2011-05-29 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
quite heavily on fons adriaensen's software, so mac users will have to grind some code and start their X11 for maximum enjoyment. have fun, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT

Re: [Sursound] AmbiSym2011 paper on large-scale Ambisonic systems...

2011-06-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
and create an inverse filter. we did measure, but i left it to the systems engineer to provide a linear system using his tools. the design of large line array systems is a lot messier than the optimisation of studio speakers, and you won't go far if you take a too subtle approach :) -- Jörn

Re: [Sursound] Papers and suggestions for implementing an ambisonic delay plugin ?

2011-06-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
effect in connection with a panner, say fons' AMB plugins and any old LADSPA delay/echo. then you would have to write a small function generator that does interesting things with the azimuth and elevation, or if it's a fixed tape composition, just automate the panner parameters. -- Jörn

Re: [Sursound] Papers and suggestions for implementing an ambisonic delay plugin ?

2011-06-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
a full b-format as an input. in that case, swap panner for rotator, tilter, tumbler. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] ambisonic spatialisation with reverberation

2011-06-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
so far was create a few artificial reflections for soloist microphones (using ardour busses, panning, eq and delay, very fussy and not really feasible in day-to-day work.) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio

Re: [Sursound] Jacktrip (bandwidth)

2011-06-08 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, it works better than jacktrip in that it doesn't cheat with synchronization. but it's also a lot more hairy to set up. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Jacktrip (bandwidth)

2011-06-11 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman

[Sursound] Comparison recordings of CoreSound Tetramic and Soundfield ST450

2011-06-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
shopping for a new surround microphone. Attached is a README that goes with the audio files. Enjoy, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net -- next

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-09 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
near as pleasant as simpler stereo microphones. in addition to coloration problems, they suffer from noise problems due to the high gains required. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-09 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 07/09/2011 11:49 PM, dw wrote: On 09/07/2011 22:28, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: ps. I am sure M Gerzon knew that ambisonics (low order) has theoretical sweet spot the size of a pea, but it still sounds good to some people, His fans are still as self-righteous as ever. i could imagine way

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
cable and green felt marker discussions on me, i'm happy to see them happy. :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
. if you're in a hurry, there are slides as well, which are a lot more compact: http://stackingdwarves.net/public_stuff/linux_audio/tmt10/TMT2010_J%c3%b6rn_Nettingsmeier-Higher_order_Ambisonics-Slides.pdf best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
genius. particularly his illustrations are really helpful. http://gyronymo.free.fr/audio3D/the_experimenter_corner.html best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http

Re: [Sursound] HOA mics [was] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and ...

2011-07-10 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
. there is a nice diploma thesis by peter plessas from iem graz that gives a good overview of the design problems: http://iem.at/projekte/acoustics/awt/mikrofon/project_view don't be put off by the german abstract, the actual thesis is in english. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-11 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 07/11/2011 12:39 AM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: With all these efforts, why is actually nobody just marketing a headphone solution with head-tracking? smyth research makes one (called the realizer), or there's the beyerdynamic headzone. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
/research/HowPlayersListen.pdf -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-12 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 07/12/2011 05:39 PM, Stefan Schreiber wrote: Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: there is an AES paper by simon goodwin that deals with this layout: www.codemasters.com/research/3D_sound_for_3D_games.pdf the rationale is that you can deliver a pre-decoded stream over the eight channels of a hdmi

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
cues which are more or less independent of ambisonics (any good recording method can do it). what you definitely won't get (with any order less than ridiculously high) are sources closer than the ring of speakers. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487

Re: [Sursound] the recent 2-channel 3D sound formats and their viability for actual 360 degree sound

2011-07-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
by visuals. the former are often limited to very specific content, and for the latter, if you have visuals, then like it or not, mono is totally adequate and the brain will do the rest (exaggerated, but only very slightly). -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, it will dominate your sense of distance. in that sense, larger rigs have the potential to be less intrusive wrt distance perception. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
sorry, itchy trigger finger... On 07/26/2011 10:14 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: as mentioned before, the floor reflection is a very strong distance cue at close range under semi-anechoic conditions (i.e. if you want to gauge the distance of that sabre-toothed tiger or the potential mating

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
here by giving precise numbers after a day of mixing and three bottles of beer, but it's easy to see that 0.3 compared to 4 ohms is a significant fraction. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT

Re: [Sursound] Distance perception

2011-07-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
order rigs, but i've done it on a hexagon at home, and it was ok. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing

Re: [Sursound] new technology?

2011-09-02 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
. particularly, the sound source visualisation was lots of fun. of course it's not the ultra-high-end classical higher-order main microphone many of us are waiting for, but then that's not what it's designed to be. good luck with your product! -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel

Re: [Sursound] another patent

2011-09-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
until i can get a replacement, i took the box and put it in the rear (which is clearly directional encoding). john anthony andrews, i 0wnz y0u ! -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http

Re: [Sursound] SoundField: from Calrec to MBHO, what year?

2011-09-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 09/24/2011 02:48 PM, Daniel Courville wrote: Does somebody know in what year SoundField caps production started at MBHO? i wonder: it's clearly evident that the capsules on the sps200 are made by haun, but do they also manufacture the capsules for the other soundfields? -- Jörn

[Sursound] [ANN] Program now online - International Conference on Spatial Audio, Nov 10-13 2011, in Detmold, Germany

2011-10-04 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
! Best regards, Jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] [ANN] Program now online - International Conference on Spatial Audio, Nov 10-13 2011, in Detmold, Germany

2011-10-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
for free download, but i need to convince the organisation team and find suitable bandwidth (we're talking massive amounts of data...). in any case, this will happen after the conference. gruß, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für

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

2011-10-09 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
always assumed a clap of some kind would start with a clearly defined positive flank, and i can't remember seeing anything else, but that's anecdotal evidence at best. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio

Re: [Sursound] Image-source model with consideration of air absorption

2011-11-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
(tr, -1/3.0f) - 1))); return 8.686f * f * f * (1.84e-11f * sqrt (tr) / p + powf (tr, -2.5f) * ( 0.01275f * (expf (-2239.1f / t) / (frO + f * f / frO)) + 0.10680f * (expf (-3352.0f / t) / (frN + f * f / frN; } -- Jörn Nettingsmeier

Re: [Sursound] online multichannel release

2011-11-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
make sure you document what you did very explicitly. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list

Re: [Sursound] matching speaker gain and delay compensation

2012-02-16 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
think of is when you have signal sets which are sensitive to crosstalk, say an a/b stereo set. it will always sound nicer when routed discretely to a pair of speakers than as two second-order ambisonic phantom sources panned 60° apart best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11

Re: [Sursound] matching speaker gain and delay compensation

2012-02-17 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
listen to this? -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister (VDT) http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] Periphonic problems

2012-02-29 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, and an out-of-phase ring. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https

Re: [Sursound] Naive HOA Questions

2012-03-02 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
-- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman

Re: [Sursound] question about simple equation

2012-03-15 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
WXYZ format as it is, in order not to break all existing recordings. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound

Re: [Sursound] 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield synthesis ?

2012-03-24 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
such as the directout andiamo (very affordable and excellent quality), or a madi to adat bridge such as the one by rme, or the recently released directout exbox adat (converts madi i/o to 8x adat io). -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für

Re: [Sursound] Sursound Digest, Vol 44, Issue 20

2012-03-27 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
experience with these ? well, with the behringers, you get what you pay for, and you didn't pay much. usable, and almost certainly not the weakest link in the chain unless you've got big budget room acoustic treatment and really sophisticated speakers. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128

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

2012-03-31 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
the resurrected interest. it was simply not possible with 70s analog equipment or 80s/90s know-how and computing power. and the entrance barrier to HOA is being lowered steadily. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio

Re: [Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
soundfield reconstruction, the human ability to judge height is not too good, unless the listener tilts her/his head. visuals or content usually win over actual direction, i.e. a sound is where you think you see its source, and birds are up, footsteps are down. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11

[Sursound] POA/HOA vs 5.1

2012-04-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
this happens. 22.2 is a strong argument to go for at least 4th order in production. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound

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

2012-04-02 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
guess the reason is our brain can sort out one set of ERs as natural and work around the coloration, but not two sets.) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Transient time differences

2012-04-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
variation thereof :-D incidentally, higher-order panned sources are also way more stable with respect to timbre. and now: duck, and cover :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http

Re: [Sursound] Can anyone help with my dissertation please? (Robert Greene)

2012-04-03 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
to many composers than ambisonics and multichannel mixing that is a phenomenon i haven't been able to figure out either :) why do people still fall for the BEAST? jörn (with apologies to the birmingham crew ;) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister

[Sursound] Linux Audio Conference 2012 at CCRMA - live stream coverage starting tomorrow

2012-04-11 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
Hi *! On behalf of the conference organizers, we would like to invite you to join the Linux Audio Conference 2012, kindly hosted by the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. The conference will start tomorrow, Thursday April 12, at 10:00 PST

Re: [Sursound] audio point / audio plenum

2012-04-18 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/18/2012 03:35 PM, Peter Lennox wrote: No - HOA could be ideal for achieving spaciousness! - it can achieve that decorrelation so much better... ah, peter, how cold-hearted of you to slap the baby with a steak. back to lurk mode... :) -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen

Re: [Sursound] microphone epiphany ?

2012-05-26 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
the resulting omni signal according to the number of capsules you used. best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Chasing flies with ambisoinics? (was Re: microphone epiphany ?)

2012-05-30 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
, and then it may work well for a few people, but certainly not for the majority of listeners. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

Re: [Sursound] Bittorrent responses--thanks!

2012-06-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
malicious seeder to seek softer targets elsewhere. -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound

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