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"HOLOGRAPHIC" sound
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:08 pm
by jeskola
Listen to this
http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testa ... phonic.mp3
How can i do this with my percussion?!
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:28 pm
by rbmonosylabik
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:28 pm
by hoffman2k
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:45 pm
by philipbarrett
Almost certainly recorded with a "Dummy Head" microphone system. I believe this is a recording made by an Italian or Swiss (?) guy naked Zaccarelli (?) to demonstrate his recording system in the early 80's. He demo'd it for us on headphones at Air Studios in London.
You can find a Dummy Head here -
http://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=curr ... escription
Or there are many online resources to construct your own.
Wow, trip down memory lane or what?
PB
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:19 pm
by Michael-SW
That was scary! Extremely good spatialization through heaphones.
Thanks for the link. I'm currently working with 8 channel surround audio and that demo had better spatialization through headphones than I've ever achieved through a speaker setup. Off to do some research...
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:26 pm
by Machinate
Thing is: "any old dummy head" doesn't cut it. It needs very specific ear-shapes to work fully binaurally (?).
From what I've heard danish mic-people DPA have the best one out right now.
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:36 pm
by axou
philipbarrett wrote:I believe this is a recording made by an Italian or Swiss (?) guy naked Zaccarelli (?) to demonstrate his recording system in the early 80's.
He did the recording naked ?
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:07 pm
by bstalz
axou wrote:philipbarrett wrote:I believe this is a recording made by an Italian or Swiss (?) guy naked Zaccarelli (?) to demonstrate his recording system in the early 80's.
He did the recording naked ?
clothing messes with the phase of certain frequency ranges of the signal.
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:11 pm
by philipbarrett
He did the recording naked ?
Funny typo eh? Back in Texas we say Nekkid anyways.
PB
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:12 pm
by philipbarrett
Machinate wrote:Thing is: "any old dummy head" doesn't cut it. It needs very specific ear-shapes to work fully binaurally (?).
From what I've heard danish mic-people DPA have the best one out right now.
Absolutely agreed, but I did find some clever home-brews with a quick Google search.
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:17 pm
by DeadlyKungFu
philipbarrett wrote:
He did the recording naked ?
Funny typo eh? Back in Texas we say Nekkid anyways.
PB
naked is without clothes
nekkid is naked but looking for trouble
didn't you hear the slight <fap fap fap> as he walked around the room? Just naked.
I love stuff like this, tripped me out on my cheap ass sony earbuds I use at work.
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:31 pm
by philipbarrett
DeadlyKungFu wrote:
I love stuff like this, tripped me out on my cheap ass sony earbuds I use at work.
Reminds me of the great scene in The Milagro Beanfield War where Herbie Platt puts his Walkman 'phones on 90m year old Amarante Cordova who starts looking all around to see where the sound is coming from!
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:49 pm
by jeskola
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:01 pm
by philipbarrett
Thanks for the link.
Wow - my old memory isn't quite as sad as I thought. Zaccarelli or Zuccarelli, close enough after 23 years! We tended to agree with this article, that the good doctor was trying to sell somthing that really already existed. As the writing says, he was very cagey about specific details.
PB
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:08 pm
by philipbarrett
The article goes on to talk about SRS Labs (
http://www.srslabs.com/broadcaststereoprocessor1213.asp) which is the system ESPN uses to "enhance" the stereo in it's live sporting broadcasts. I'll probably be using one tonight, applied subtly they are pretty effective as a mono to stereo on individual inputs but I'm not a fan of using one on the entire mix.
PB