I am very interested in this as well. I have been thinking about taking the 3d audio plunge and would like to figure out what kind of setup I would need.
I would also be interested in knowing what you guys are using to do the encoding of the audio streams. Anthony On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Pedro Lopes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Impressive setup you have there. > I'm also building an 8 speaker ambisonic setup, although budget limitations > will force me to buy something like YamahaHs50, KRK rokit, or Mackies... > something in the 150€ price range per speaker. > > ThomasChen do you use two octagons one above the other? > > I'm researching about my speaker positioning, and considering two quads > (rectangles), one vertical and one horizontal. The goal is to provide a > small space (3 by 3 meters) with 3D sound with ambisonics. Whats the > general > though on 8 speaker positioning? > > I attached an idea of the placing, for illustration purposes. > > best regards, > Pedro > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Darren > > > > I am using a dual octagon setup with ambisonic plus stereo playback. I > > have custom decoder implemented in Scope--Soniccore. I am using Genelec > > speakers with larger for the front and small for the rear. The addition > of > > powered speakers is that the addition gives much greater sound pressure. > > The > > advantage of distributed sound sources is that the sound level is more > > tolerable than from two. They are in a 1000 sq. ft. room > > > > ThomasChen > > > > > > In a message dated 5/5/2011 6:07:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > Hi Darren here, > > > > I am doing a surround sound / octagon (8 speakers) setup using ambisonic > > software to create immersive sound running out of "M-aduio firewire 410" > > > > I am wanting to do 30-80 people in a room I want to do testing in house > > and use for live setup as well - > > > > what you think is the cheapest option being 8 speakers. > > > > 1. What speakers should: (to buy) > > > > a) Monitors (near field) powered - would these work ? being near field. > > > > b) or just powered speakers. > > > > Please any ideas of what to buy with this setup > > > > thanks > > Darren > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: > > < > > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110505/48da4d92/attachment.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110505/6e4a7dcf/attachment.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > > > > > -- > Pedro Lopes (MSc) > contact: [email protected] > website: http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes / > http://pedrolopesresearch.wordpress.com/ | > http://twitter.com/plopesresearch > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110505/99221fdb/attachment.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: doublequadSetup.png > Type: image/png > Size: 42473 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110505/99221fdb/attachment.png > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110505/75a6828b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
