Re: [Sursound] Sonicam

2017-05-30 Thread Politis Archontis
Hi Steven, (hurried reply on the go) the numbers were for 17cm diameter (8.5cm radius). You also get around 15-18dB SNR improvement just by combining that many microphones, that’s still included in that simulation. I wasn’t saying that the device is not good or useful, apart from the video,

Re: [Sursound] Sonicam

2017-05-30 Thread Steven Boardman
Hi Archontis The size is 170mm diameter not radius. They also state the capsules are in arrays of 16, so 4 arrays of 16 capsules. Looking at the camera though, I can’t work it out…. The also said: 'The noise and frequency respond i quote is for individual mic. We have noise reduction

Re: [Sursound] Sonicam

2017-05-27 Thread Politis Archontis
Hi Steven, as Fons mentioned before such an array will have trouble to deliver proper HOA components at a useful range. Running a simple simulation here for R=17cm and assuming perfect matched microphones and perfectly (uniformly) arranged, spatial aliasing starts to become serious at 4.5kHz.

Re: [Sursound] Sonicam

2017-05-27 Thread Steven Boardman
Surprise suprise, they can't provide a 3rd order sample at this point in time Here is the message. "We talked with our R team regarding to the schedule of audio. As our timeline is to achieve the 3rd order Ambisonic in first shipment in October, from now to October we still have a lot of

Re: [Sursound] Sonicam

2017-05-26 Thread Steven Boardman
I just messaged them, apparently it will be. They will be also providing access to each individual mic stream via a software upgrade! ‘Yes, 3rd Ambisonic will be in the first shipment, but 5th order Ambisonic rendering will be provided in the early next year, by upgrading the software.’ A

Re: [Sursound] Sonicam

2017-05-26 Thread Marc Lavallée
I notice that although it is a Ambisonic microphone, the audio is rendered as a stereo binaural stream; it's not clear if the Ambisonic stream is available. But often, Kickstarter campaigns are hiding important details to target specific markets. -- Marc On Fri, 26 May 2017 09:14:15 +0100 Steven

[Sursound] Sonicam

2017-05-26 Thread Steven Boardman
Hi all Just seen this... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/303473622/affordable-professional-360o-sound-and-video-camer It has 64mics, plus 9 4k camera's and is a lot cheaper than an Eigen mic. Any thoughts? As it's got my attention. Steve -- next part -- An HTML