Excellent - this is exactly the method I was about to suggest - steppers,
related hardware and motor control boards have been driven down in price so
much by the 3-d printing/cnc/maker revolution that it makes almost no sense
to do anything else. I would use the esp8266 arduino compatible wifi module
which costs about the same as a decent cappuccino - I paid about 4 euros
for one at the end of last year - which has a reasonably powerful 16 bit
processor and is quite capable of acting as a web server, so I'm doing that
and controlling my steppers from a web based interface on my mobile or
laptop. Note, however, that I've confined it to just my home network for
security sake - don't want people using it to influence the elections :-)
Dave
PS Sorry once again I'm not currently doing this for audio - maybe one of
these days I'll get back to that.
On 24 April 2018 at 02:58, umashankar manthravadi <umasha...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> I have been using a stepper motor (of the kind used in 3d printer ) driven
> by a low cost Arduino and motor control board. I 3d print a snug fitting
> fixture for the microphone with the motor shaft aligned to the array
> centre. It is low cost so I design a fitting for each mic I test, including
> the Brahma-in-Zoom. A small Arduino script rotates the stepper 25 steps
> each time I press a button (for 16 positions) and 50 steps (for 8
> positions). I was worried about the stepper skipping with the weight of the
> microphone, but that is not happening, even with a five volt supply. I was
> ready with a thrust bearing between the motor housing and the microphone
> housing but it was not necessary. I plan to get rid of the switch and use a
> pulse on the right channel instead, though I generally do not like to
> automate things too much.
>
>
>
> umashankar
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Sursound <sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu> on behalf of Fernando
> Lopez-Lezcano <na...@ccrma.stanford.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 1:40:56 AM
> To: Surround Sound discussion group
> Subject: Re: [Sursound] RIR measuring, how to capture a higher order
> Ambisonic room responce?
>
> 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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