Thats pretty similar to an example I heard the other day. A composer had split the sound of a cello into different frequency bands and dispersed them around a lot of loudspeakers (in a line if I remember correctly) each one playing a different frequency - imagine his dissapointment when the human auditroy system summed all the frequencies back up again and and allocated the sound source and its entire set of frequency bands to one blurry spot. The solution it turned out to be that he had to decorrolate and desynchronise (slightly) the signals and frequancy bands to each speaker and then , and only then, did he achieve the spatialisation effect he looked for. Gary Kendal explains it very well in his paper "why things don't work" section 3.8. Why do I still hear single image when I put the harmonics of a sound in different loudspeakers?
> What surprised me is that nobody could associate pitch and speakers. > I somehow expected it would be obvious that e.g. all 'C' notes would > come from the same direction, and that one would be able to identify > the pitch of each speaker when listening to the complete signal. But > that was not the case, and you had to go quite close to any speaker > in order to notice there was something strange with the sound it > produced. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120531/82abef66/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
