The reality may work in the context of locating things.
But the slogan
description is scary because it is the road already
followed by the recording industry into disaster.
Trying to capture what is produced by a musical instrument
rather than what is heard from a natural listening position has
been the basic philosophy of an endless succession of
really awful recordings. The curse of multimiking!
To mention only one problem, musical instruments
have a complex radiation pattern. They do not have an
"axis" on which one automatically captures the
whole, correct sound. Look at the radiation pattern
of a violin
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://articles.ircam.fr/textes/Vos03a/
Just exactly how does anyone imagine that they could go
about capturing what is produced here?
As a slogan, it works. And one can construct locationally correct items
this way. As a reality, one always gets
oddball stuff--even though the idea has been sold to the public
forever.
The only hope for hearing something really like music--
or like any reality--- is recording
the sound at a listening position--or using an enormous
number of channels to do wavefront reconstruction.
Recording in the proximity of instruments is a doomed
process for natural sound--for location it will work
but for sounding like a musical instrument.... no chance.
Robert
On Fri, 17 May 2013, Augustine Leudar wrote:
Actually someone just wrote to me who does similar work and put it
perfectly - "Dont capture what is heard but what is produced" - and your
other question - yes it is a form of amplitude panning.
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