By all means. We'd like to hear them. Why not put them on Ambisonia? http://www.ambisonia.com
------------------------------ On Sun, May 17, 2015 10:47 PM PDT Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: >I have a number of recordings using a tetramic and Tascam DR-680, the >recordings are mostly: >church choirs among other recordings a full church with only singers making a >700+ choir singing Händel, >Jazz recordings ( Benny Goodman style) in a club with audience eating and >talking, >One Gospel recording with all of the public joining in, >A few short recordings of rainy afternoons with a bit of thunderstorms from >the Swedish archipelago. >A long recording of Early morning birdsong at sunrise 03:30, with absolutely >no wind or man made background sounds, from a wooden glade in the archipelago. > >Most of them can be distributed within this group and the ambisonic community >if someone is interested and wants to listen. > >Best Regards >Bo-Erik Sandholm > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Curtis >Alcock >Sent: den 14 maj 2015 12:33 >To: Surround Sound discussion group >Subject: Re: [Sursound] Converting 16 mic array recording to B format > >Thank you everyone who contributed to answering my question. I am now fully >convinced that using the DEMAND library would be next to useless and not worth >the work involved in trying to make it (partially) usable. Pity really, as a >database of everyday noise would be a useful resource - but only if it's done >properly in the first place. > >I am in the process of doing my own field recordings using a Brahma mic (been >impressed with results so far: birdsong; a very noisy, reverberant restaurant; >organ playing in a church) but as it will take some time to build up a >complete library I was looking for some other material I could use, >particularly every day environments. > >Thanks, Richard, for your suggestion of ambisonia.com. I started there but was >having trouble downloading the torrent files. (The internet access I have here >(in a shared building) blocks torrent files so I need to download somewhere >else then transfer.) Will continue to pursue this route. > >Thanks again, everyone. > >On 14 May 2015, at 19:11, Richard Lee <rica...@justnet.com.au> wrote: > >> Duu.uuh!! http://parole.loria.fr/DEMAND/DEMAND.pdf states >> >> "the microphones of the array ... are not calibrated with respect to >> each other, and so gain variations are to be expected: we found that >> the energy in some channels is consistently higher than in other >> channels. Algorithms working on this data should compensate for this >> variation" >> >> ie they haven't a clue what each capsule is doing. >> >> This precludes any attempt at conversion to B-format and also of >> beamforming. >> >> I was hoping this might lead to a discussion about EigenMike and how >> it might be made good enough to record music but this is certainly NOT >> the vehicle. >> >> I can't help feeling they should beg borrow or steal a TetraMic and >> repeat their recordings. >> >> Presently, about all you can say is they have a close bunch of >> unspecified mikes in some sort of horizontal pattern. >> >> Curtiss, if you are after some 'realistic' atmospheric background (and >> this is something TetraMic and properly aligned Soundfields do better >> than an ything else), try ambisonia.com and recordings by John Leonard >> (soundmanjohn), Paul Doombusch, JH Roy & others. >> >> John Leonard's specialty is WW2 aircraft flyovers but he includes a >> lot of airfield noise too :) He's also got some very realistic street >> scenes, audience noise, applause etc too. >> >> Aaron, you are right about SVD not being much use here as we have >> multiple solutions but I was hoping to dream up something to help S/N at LF. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit >> account or options, view archives and so on. > >_______________________________________________ >Sursound mailing list >Sursound@music.vt.edu >https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit >account or options, view archives and so on. >_______________________________________________ >Sursound mailing list >Sursound@music.vt.edu >https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit >account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
