Sounds interesting! I think I'll leave a member of the BLaH gang and/or
Fons to answer the calibration question, but as for the name, since it's a
bunch of shotguns bunched together, how about 'Gat" as in short for Gatling
:-)

    Dave

On 13 April 2015 at 16:23, umashankar manthravadi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I am planning to do an experiment and want some suggestions.
> I plan to build an eight channel microphone using short shotgun capsules
> they should be considered 2nd order directivity) I can design an octahedral
> frame to support them. overall it  will make a 12 cm radius sphere, but the
> capsules will be on a 20-25 mm radius sphere. I can easily design to drive
> an eight channel a to d like the 8 pre.
> how should I go about calibrating the microphone? the eight A-format
> signals can be decoded to first order with height plus 2nd order
> horizontal, I guess.
> what should I call the microphone?
>
> umashankar
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The University of York
York YO10 5DD
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'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio'
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