Point taken. Apologies if you don't think it's relevant, but really you don't have to move your head to crowd pleasing proportions. A little rotate in either direction with a very slight tilt to each side, or up down will normally sort it, if not, its directly above or below, and facing towards clears up the error. By doing this you are causing time differences at the ears, along with tonal differences. We do it constantly, as our head is never still.The other method is just using the plane between the ears as a pointer. Which uses shadowing and delay. Our heads don't pivot at our ears, or roll perfectly on the joint. Our ears aren't that level either. Which only adds to the differences. Mine are quite visibily not level. With both pinar of a different size and shape. Off piste I know but the filtering effect of the ears and body, when one only moves ones head up and down, is also quite substantial. When it is done in all planes its a lot more. Not to be to pedantic here, but one third of our lives is spent asleep, lying down, either with ones head facing upwards, or even worse with one ear covered. All in the dark, at our most vulnerable. This should be the time of all others, that our brains and ears need to sort out this confusion.
Best Steve On 7 Dec 2015 10:14 am, "Jörn Nettingsmeier" <netti...@stackingdwarves.net> wrote: > On 12/07/2015 12:18 AM, Steven Boardman wrote: > >> Just a little point here. I thought the amount of movement ones head can >> cover vertically is more than it can cover in any other plane. This is >> obviously not including moving the rest of the body at the same time. This >> being so, and generally having the ground for reflections, it allows us to >> work out any confusion. Especially coupled with a slight tilt. >> Surely hearing what is below is very important, probably more than above, >> and as such there must be an important mechanism to determine it. >> > > the natural vertical motion is to tilt one's neck. this does not change > the orientation of the ear spacing, only the angle of pinnae and the > direction of the torso/shoulder reflections. > > the discussion was about inter-channel time differences in vertically > spaced speakers not resulting in inter-aural time difference cues at the > ears, unless you bend your neck to the sides and then up/down. this is a > very unnatural movement. i do use it from time to time to check for errors > in complex loudspeaker systems, but it usually results in bystanders asking > if i'm ok. > > > > > > -- > Jörn Nettingsmeier > Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 > > Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) > Tonmeister VDT > > http://stackingdwarves.net > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20151207/357b7c4c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
