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Fun with sound [message #43759]

Thu, 05 July 2007 09:05

Deeej

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As a former sound design student, I'm fascinated by this. It works (I think) by arranging a pair of microphones like human ears. You would never be able to create something like this entirely in post-production because of the hugely complicated mixing, effects and tiny time delays that would be required to get it to sound right.

You must listen through headphones -- you'll lose almost all the effect if you don't. (It just sounds like a bog-standard piece of sound design without.)

http://toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2007/07/3d-sound-with-holofonia.html

Re: Fun with sound [message #43771 is a reply to message #43759]

Thu, 05 July 2007 22:41

Deeej

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Location: Berkshire, UK
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Is this sort of thing boring to everyone else? Am I the only person here with headphones? Or is it just something not worth commenting on?

I wish I'd tried something like this as a final project at university. Not a 'virtual haircut', but perhaps a play recorded three dimensionally around a pair of microphones. Come to think of it, I still could. If only I had the time ...

David

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Re: Fun with sound [message #43772 is a reply to message #43759]

Thu, 05 July 2007 22:44

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
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It is as wonderful today as the first stereo demonstration LPs were way back when.

When we're used to Dobly (spinal tap, not my ignorance) surround sound then it seems less extraordinary, though

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Re: Fun with sound [message #43773 is a reply to message #43771]

Thu, 05 July 2007 22:59

On fire!

Location: Worcester, England
Registered: January 2005
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Not in the least boring, but my headphones fit the amp, not the pc, so it means burning a CD and taking it through to the other room to listen ... which I'm sure I'll get round to. But not tonight - I'm shattered after a 13-hour day at work (only my third day ... and I'm only supposed to do 3 x 7-hour days!).

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Re: Fun with sound [message #43781 is a reply to message #43772]

Fri, 06 July 2007 06:44

Deeej

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Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
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I found it much more interesting than 5.1 surround sound. Having spent the last year mixing the stuff it's very, very hard -- nay, impossible -- to create anything in post-production that sounds as realistic as that. Surround mixes almost always start out as mono or stereo recordings, duplicated to other speakers in varying amounts. It's not the same.

Dolby Surround is a theatrical medium, designed to be heard by lots of people at the same time, and therefore not at all personal or intimate, and rarely subjective.

If you listen to the way 5.1 is conventionally mixed, the vast majority of the sound comes from directly in front, just as it did when mono was the norm. Very unadventurous.

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