Have I really heard sounds from below me?? Yes, all the time - every time
I walk around (other than a really, really, soft carpet), in stair wells
let alon leaning out of windows, in cable cars, in microlights, hot air
balloons, mesh floored lighting bridges - I could go on and on (and I
frequently do :-). Mind you, it's not as robust as horizontal imaging -
witness what happens if you play recordings of birds flying below you (top
of Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire), it's impossible - or very nearly so - to
hear them as anything but above.
Dave
On 26 November 2014 at 03:22, Sampo Syreeni <de...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2014-11-21, dw wrote:
>
> The state-of-the-art finds it very difficult to render sounds below the
>> listener.
>>
>
> True. But then, at the same time, have you ever truly heard sounds from
> right below yourself? Does even the human auditory system *really* know
> what it means to "hear something from below"?
>
> Think about it or awhile. In the psychoacoustic sense there actually might
> not even *be* such a thing "due below".
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Dave Malham
Honorary Fellow, Department of Music
The University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK
'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio'
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