Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-12 Thread Thorsten Michels
Hi John! Actually, I don't know what other noises as the ones of the fans, I will hear there. But I expect it to be the most dominant. I hope to persuade the technicians there to produce a very rare and seldom noise: The powering up of a Z. ;-). But this will be a hard piece of work. I would

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-10 Thread John Leonard
Thorsten, I think the question is rather more what sort of noise do you hope to capture: will it not just be more or less white/pink noise? I’ve recorded in computer rooms in the past and the overwhelming sound is of the aircon/refrigeration units and internal cooling fans. As far as I can see,

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-10 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 8/10/22 1:50 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 12:30:25PM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Any graphs of the performance in elevation != 0? Ie: plots, of, say, "T" at different frequencies? I'm really curious... For the EM and the Zylia I used two sets of 'measurements

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-10 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 12:30:25PM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > Any graphs of the performance in elevation != 0? Ie: plots, of, say, "T" at > different frequencies? I'm really curious... For the EM and the Zylia I used two sets of 'measurements': - A set of 324 directions distributed '

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-09 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 8/9/22 1:57 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:54:25PM +, Thorsten Michels wrote: My first idea was to use my native Ambix-B-format microphone setup. This would give me the greatest flexibility, right? Not really. Higher order AMB will give you much better results. T

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-09 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 09:12:54AM -0400, Marc Lavallée wrote: > Your document mentions that the results for the EM and the ZM-1 are based on > a numerical simulation; can you (briefly) elaborate? There is an analytical solution (involving spherical Bessel and Hankel functions) for diffraction by

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-09 Thread Ralf R Radermacher
Am 08.08.22 um 23:54 schrieb Thorsten Michels: At the end of August I will be in the IBM Mainframe research lab and I was granted the great honor and permission to do some recordings of the following devices: If you happen to have an iPhone and would like something really portable, you might h

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-09 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:54:25PM +, Thorsten Michels wrote: > My first idea was to use my native Ambix-B-format microphone setup. This > would give me the greatest flexibility, right? Not really. Higher order AMB will give you much better results. There are not so many options. The followin

Re: [Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-09 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
Try to borrow a Zylia ZM-1 or any other higher order ambisonic mic, this gives you third order b-format. Converting to other formats works better than first order. When I feel comitted to be sure and get it right I record tetracycline foa and spaced omnis on a 6 track tascam dr-680 recorder and a

[Sursound] Which microphone system to choose?

2022-08-08 Thread Thorsten Michels
Hi all! At the end of August I will be in the IBM Mainframe research lab and I was granted the great honor and permission to do some recordings of the following devices: Mainframes: IBM Z 14, IBM Z 15 and the brandnew Z16. As this wouldn't be enough, I will get a few minutes to record the IB