There is another point - you can recover the B-Format horizontal information from UHj - so, notionally, using Bruce Wiggins' irregular decoding, you could display it on 5.1
Dr. Peter Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby, UK e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk t: 01332 593155 -----Original Message----- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Jörn Nettingsmeier Sent: 14 March 2014 10:48 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Question about UHJ On 03/14/2014 03:48 AM, Schumacher Marlon wrote: > Dear list, > > A friend of mine was planning to encode a recording of his > instrumental music (appr. 20 mic feeds) into 2-channel (2D) UHJ format > and was strongly discouraged as UHJ would introduce nasty phasing > effects. Since there should be some hundred 2-channel UHJ LPs and CDs > (which should be stereo compatible) I wonder if this is true? > I read about the stereo-widening effect when listened to undecoded > (which was sometimes purposely used asa production effect), but wasn't > aware of these phasing artefacts. > > I'd be happy about any advice/comments. they are very obvious for sources far to the sides and in the rear, but if you balance them properly, the overall effect to me is very pleasing. a mistake i once made: a jazz recording, musicians surrounding the tetramic, turned so that the singer is due north. the double bass ended up at 150° to the left, which meant it caused large amounts of negative correlation when listened to in UHJ, and lost quite some oomph. don't do that. if you can keep all your important sources between, say, +/-55°, i find UHJ to be very satisfactory, and in fact it makes mixing past the usual stereo boundary quite easy. but as with all real-life audio solutions: expect miracles and be disappointed, use the wider soundstage subtly and economically, and you just added a new hue to your mixing palette. if you know your target will always be stereo, then UHJ is a slightly sub-optimal solution - hand-crafted stereo will be better in corner cases, but that takes a lot of care. if you are targetting surround and stereo is needed for compatibility, then UHJ is a very reasonable 95% solution, and its sound may even be preferred by some (me included), but for every person who loves it you will find another who hates it. -- 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/listinfo/sursound The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please select unsubscribe. Unsubscribe and Security information contact: info...@derby.ac.uk For all FOI requests please contact: f...@derby.ac.uk All other Contacts are at http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/ _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
