Augustine
I have used a Mac Book with the MOTU Traveler. It gives you 4 line
inputs and 4 Mic inputs. I use a Mark V Soundfield and connedt to the
line inputs. You can then use the other 4 inputs to record spot
accents to placed later in the soundfield. One of the techniques I
routinely use is that the spot mics are 10 to 30 msec or feet earlier
in time than the Soundfield Mic. This uses early time of arrival to
help localize your sound. A Soundfield 350 is more compact and will
also give lline outputs.
This sounds like an interesting project!
ThomasChen
B+
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From: Augustine Leudar <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, Nov 9, 2010 5:35 am
Subject: [Sursound] Largest ever indoor multichannel sound art
installation in the world at Eden project, Cornwall, UK
Hello ,I am writing to let you know about the largest multichannel
sound artinstallation in the world at the Eden project. For those
unfamiliar with theEden Project it is the largest indoor tropical
conservatory in the worldcovering several acres and presently has lots
of speakers hidden in thebushes ! Hopefully this event is something
that would interest you as
well:http://www.edenproject.com/come-and-visit/whats-on/heart-of-darkness
.phpWe actually did this before in March - it is quite different to
ChrisWatsons in that includes many imaginary sounds as well as
authenticrainforest sounds as well as several actors and native people
from therainforest who talk to the public as they walk around. The
event is held inthe evening and so far has got a fantastic response
from the public, it ison every Friday and Saturday in November. As well
as being set upambisonically it also has a lady singing a lament
floating around the biomein in a hot air balloon .hopefully somebody
from this list will be able to get down and check it out,Although the
installation is laid out with a very unusual speakerconfiguration which
included height information as well as surround sound Ihave discovered
several things during my application of large soundinstallations.
Discrete sound sources (ie one speaker dedicated to onesound) work much
better than trying to put the sound in a surround soundimage using a
surround sound panner in Nuendo or whatever). Leaves act asfantastic
dispersers of souind and the sound of say, insects, sound muchmore
realistic if the speaker is hidden in the bushes.Although the
installation is ambisonically laid out many of the recordingswere only
taken with surround sound microphones - I am shortly to return tothe
amazon with new equipment and would welcome any advice on a
goodmultichannel recorder and low noise mics to take with me (I reckon
I need atleast six inputs for this - sound devices look good but are so
expensive -what are peoples on the Tascam 680 ?) any suggestions
welcome. I also lookforward to discussing the best way of recording
ambisonically ,best,Augustine Leudar-------------- next part
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