On 1 Nov 2012, at 17:00, sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu wrote:
i am wondering if we cannot produce HRTFs the way the first
produced spectacle lenses. one needs to look at the range of
variations in HRTFs and what actually varies from person to person
and produce a dozen or so hrtfs. people can just try them and stick
with the one they like. a real time, streaming b-format to binaural
programme into which the hrtf can be plugged in is all that will be
needed. umashankar
That's a great idea, then you could buy +1.00 or -3.50 headphones to
suit your ears. And it would give more work to audiologists! We could
develop a
test soundtrack like the opticians' chart.
I have experience though with a soundwalk project in amsterdam where
we just chose one sort of headphone (a compromise
between sound quality, comfort, robustness & price) and mastered all
the pieces for that type of headphone and MY ears seeing I was
doing the mastering. Generally we get very good reactions to the
spatial quality of the sound. The artists tend to use omnis placed in
the ears
(soundman, DPA 4060) for recording, or synthetically panned binaural
(e.g. Logic) and this is often also mixed with "normal" panpotted
stereo and
other stereo recording techniques. I've also used some binaural
decodes from soundfield mics but I've never been so happy about those.
see http://www.soundtrackcity.nl if you're interested.
best, Justin
Justin Bennett
i...@justinbennett.nl
http://www.justinbennett.nl
NEW RELEASES AND FREE DOWNLOADS FROM http://spore.soundscaper.com
_______________________________________________
Sursound mailing list
Sursound@music.vt.edu
https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
