On 04/23/2018 12:42 PM, Stefan Schreiber wrote:
I can do the 4 measurements with 45 degrees rotation of my tetramic, that
is not so difficult,  the next step to create a second order ambisonic
RIR

that is where I will fail :-).

You would need to "calibrate" the created 8 capsule array. That is, record impulse responses all around it in a big space or anechoic room (enough to accurately sample the spherical harmonics you want), and then derive an A to B converter from that. I have some preliminary code in my SpHEAR project that tries to do that, but it is not a "push a button and you are done" thing at all...

For Fons's code, and to do this the "right way"...
On 03/27/2018 01:18 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
...  you'll have to sell your soul :-)

:-P

I believe you might need a quite high precision to be successful even at
the first step...

(A SF mike has narrowly spaced capsules, and needs calibration....The
mechanical precision you need to measure 2nd order with a FOA mike is
IMHO high.)

Based on my experience with the Octathingy's I have built I would agree, you would need to be very precise (and repeatable).

In my case to get good calibration data I need to rotate the microphone with no wobble and at different orientations (or if it is not _exactly_ perfect, try to get away with calibrating out the average delays to all capsules).

BTW, I cannot move the speaker around which would probably be a better solution because of space constraints... I can barely get 4.5mSecs of IR data in the spaces I can use.

So the mathematical methods (based on FOA but improving the RIR
resolution, as suggested by Archontis) should be a better way to go
on... Especially since you could receive even higher resolutions/orders,
and in practice.

So the presented ideas to capture 2nd order RIRs via a 1st order mike
are brilliant, but are they practical?

Probably not practical IMHO.

And even if somebody could succeed in a very careful process: this does
not look to be a robust measurement method. ..

We always talk about the 1st reflections, in this case. Not reverb,
which is kind of statistical.

Of course you can try, but how much precision is really needed? (Should
be clarified before...)

I would have to go to my data to get some numbers... I definitely can see effects at high frequencies when the data capture is not precise (I'm in the process of trying to build a better measuring rig).

-- Fernando

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