that is a question i had been meaning to ask. can a tetrahedral mic be used to create a room (correction) impulse response in B format? and how? umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > From: rica...@justnet.com.au > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:31:00 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music > > > I've recorded with Tetramics and I've set up an HSD 3D system > > Mark, what is this HSD 3D system? > > Can it play Aaron's B-format recordings? > > If you have been following the BLaH series, what we've found is that hardly > any software decoders do plain FOA properly. > _______________ > > I tend to agree with Ronald. The main music business today is iStuff, ie 2 > channel. That's why we need UHJ. > > The only "surround" niche is films. Maybe a growing market for games. > > But what we need is to secretly put loadsa proper (see BLaH) Ambi enabled > devices on the market. > > The most important feature of the Super Ambisonic Decoder is PLAYS STEREO, > 5.1 .. ZILLION.1 BETTER THAN THEIR NATIVE PLAYERS. > > The technology to do this is for a universal media player like VLC is nearly > here. This is what the BLaH series is about. Ambi technology can .. > > - make the speaker positions less critical. Automatic detection and design > of matched decoder. > - make up for lousy, unmatched speakers > - incorporate Room EQ beyond the naive strategies used today > > all this with an inexpensive version of TetraMic. > > Can this be done? It already is! > > The Trinnov Optimizer for studio use is largely Ambi inside. It is sold as > Super Room & Speaker EQ allowing speaker layouts to depart from mythical > ITU-R 5.1 No mention of Ambi > _________________ > > Oh. And if you click on a ... > > *.uhj > *.amb or > *.[new HOA format file which will appear in the next millenium when the > experts come to an agreement] > > .. the Super Ambisonic Decoder will decode these to good surround too. > > But don't bother with this until you do the 5.1 stuff better ... > > And the guy who puts this tech into VLC gets to decide the *.HOA format > regardless of what the experts say. > _________________ > > I'll pass on the ... > > "all you need for Dead White Men's Music is stereo and you can just > synthesize ambience and squirt it from another 2 speakers" > and > "What you must have is a dodecahedron of speakers, anechoic chamber + HOA" > > Just point out that de-pinnaeing and a Greene/Lee neck brace solves most > problems. > __________________ > > PS The most immediate need at the moment, and it is crucial, is to > re-surrect Ambisonia.com. Otherwise, the best evidence that Ambi is worth > pursuing goes down the drain. GV Malham, I hope you have this in hand before > you hang up your pointy hat. > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > 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/20120414/c6baab48/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
