[Sursound] Esfera Mic: IBC launch

2013-09-13 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
Anyone at this year's IBC might be interested in the launch of Sennheiser's new microphone: the Esfera. http://www.noodls.com/view/84DDC0FB08F1DCD3D116474D5EC49E93382C4A5F Not sure on any other details as of yet so if anyone is going - could you report back? Thanks! Please consider the environ

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
RedNet is focusrite's integration with Dante. Effectively acts as an audio switch for cat5 cabled devices. Some units are DAs, some units are ADs. I'm sure to implement 256 channels of audio would be costly (far greater than 14k) but it does give you remote control of every signal in the matrix,

Re: [Sursound] Auro 3D

2012-10-15 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
Jorn is spot on with his analysis. Every live sound show I've worked (8 years+) has had all the amplifiers on maximum. Even those without DSP. You choose what you want the SPL at the desk via the master faders, and balance accordingly to that SPL. Mixing 'backwards' (Jorn's last point) is EXAC

Re: [Sursound] Hybrid Hi-Fi (HyFi?), IRs, etc.

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
I'll use this as a shameless excuse to reference my paper "Using a Non-Standard Audio Toolkit to Produce Standard Spatial Audio Mixes" found online (scribd.com is one place). It uses Reaper (can handle up to 64 channels of audio per bus) and WigWare and is for first timers or those who want ambi

Re: [Sursound] OT: Spatial music

2012-04-13 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
My clients, students and those who have Ambisonics produced appropriately would disagree on your opinion. I'd also wager that Funktion One, Imogen Heap and Lou Reed would all argue that Ambisonics (even first order) works perfectly well for produced modern music. But that's just their opinion, t

Re: [Sursound] BBC - Travel - 3D audio may revolutionize travel

2011-08-21 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
I'm getting an error page, as it seems to be content created outside of the UK (and therefore isn't covered by the fee). I presume it's a blog page, not video / audio content? Perhaps someone from the BBC can ask for a reproduction just for the mailing list? Andrew J. Horsburgh, Researcher andr

[Sursound] Ambisonics featured in BBCs Click

2011-08-13 Thread Andrew Horsburgh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013pdnf Some exposure on the telly for Ambisonics, WFS and general good quality sound! Andrew J. Horsburgh, Researcher andrew.horsbu...@uws.ac.uk Ambisonic & Spatial Audio Research Group University of the West of Scotland, www.uws.ac.uk Please consider the envir