This has been something of long interest to me.
And that is the lack of height channels for stereo music. What advantage would that bring? And I don't mean close miced mono recordings mixed together on a virtual soundstage. I mean actual stereo recordings of an acoustic space.
It leaves us to extrapolate the height dimension from a left right stereo track.
Dolby Atmos now has height channels but I see little use of that for stereo acoustical recordings in an acoustic space. It's all movies and stuff going overhead etc.
instance, I am curious whether there can be additional audible information gained for these following recording and playback options.
- Choir on risers. Self explanatory
- A singer playing a guitar. Guitar is lower than the singer.
- Two singers of different heights singing side by side
- A recording of a single large instrument in a room. Will it portray the size of an instrument more accurately.
Anyway, does anybody have any thoughts on stereo with height?
I see that somebody is doing height recordings using an orchestra. Their purpose is stated to be to provide better ambient information of the church venue.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/v...g-music-in-91-height-surround-lindberg-lyd-as
https://www.auro-3d.com/blog/interv...ut-a-sculpture-you-can-literally-move-around/
Has anybody tried out the music?
I figured below what I write below would be an entertaining read. But it's just me recounting something fun I tried to do while being completely clueless about what to do. So please don't take it seriously like I'm claiming some sort of science or any right way to do this. I'm pretty sure I've bungled whatever I was attempting at.
So I went ahead and tried my own amateur (read newbish) recording method . I used four mics. Two matched pairs but each matched pair was different from the other pair.
One pair of MXL condenser microphones. And Rhodes Stereo condenser microphone.
I set them up but wasn't aware of the correct way to do so.
The directions I ended up with a North south, west, east points for the mics - like the ends of a cross. The idea was that west to east was the stereo information. North to south was the height information.
As you can see since the silver Rhodes is a stereo microphone there is no way to adjust the angles on it or separate it out. So I just made do.
I did a I tried to eyeball the volume on my Tascam DR 70d mk2 which has four volume levels to try and get things somewhat matching using the onscreen graphical feedback. I'm pretty sure I didn't succeed.
Anyway the Tascam DR70d mk2 is a pretty neat cheap device. It has the ability to power four phantom microphones at the same time while being standalone. It also can record four independent mono channels at up to 96 khz. Or two stereo channels.
So basically I got information for a stereo setup with a second stereo "top height and bottom height channel.
Unfortunately that's where my adventure ended. I didn't have a multichannel device to play back four channel audio. And I didn't know how to mix mono channels to multichannel audio. And I didn't have a multichannel amp though I did have four speakers.
And that is the lack of height channels for stereo music. What advantage would that bring? And I don't mean close miced mono recordings mixed together on a virtual soundstage. I mean actual stereo recordings of an acoustic space.
It leaves us to extrapolate the height dimension from a left right stereo track.
Dolby Atmos now has height channels but I see little use of that for stereo acoustical recordings in an acoustic space. It's all movies and stuff going overhead etc.
instance, I am curious whether there can be additional audible information gained for these following recording and playback options.
- Choir on risers. Self explanatory
- A singer playing a guitar. Guitar is lower than the singer.
- Two singers of different heights singing side by side
- A recording of a single large instrument in a room. Will it portray the size of an instrument more accurately.
Anyway, does anybody have any thoughts on stereo with height?
I see that somebody is doing height recordings using an orchestra. Their purpose is stated to be to provide better ambient information of the church venue.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/v...g-music-in-91-height-surround-lindberg-lyd-as
https://www.auro-3d.com/blog/interv...ut-a-sculpture-you-can-literally-move-around/
Has anybody tried out the music?
I figured below what I write below would be an entertaining read. But it's just me recounting something fun I tried to do while being completely clueless about what to do. So please don't take it seriously like I'm claiming some sort of science or any right way to do this. I'm pretty sure I've bungled whatever I was attempting at.
So I went ahead and tried my own amateur (read newbish) recording method . I used four mics. Two matched pairs but each matched pair was different from the other pair.
One pair of MXL condenser microphones. And Rhodes Stereo condenser microphone.
I set them up but wasn't aware of the correct way to do so.
The directions I ended up with a North south, west, east points for the mics - like the ends of a cross. The idea was that west to east was the stereo information. North to south was the height information.
As you can see since the silver Rhodes is a stereo microphone there is no way to adjust the angles on it or separate it out. So I just made do.
I did a I tried to eyeball the volume on my Tascam DR 70d mk2 which has four volume levels to try and get things somewhat matching using the onscreen graphical feedback. I'm pretty sure I didn't succeed.
Anyway the Tascam DR70d mk2 is a pretty neat cheap device. It has the ability to power four phantom microphones at the same time while being standalone. It also can record four independent mono channels at up to 96 khz. Or two stereo channels.
So basically I got information for a stereo setup with a second stereo "top height and bottom height channel.
Unfortunately that's where my adventure ended. I didn't have a multichannel device to play back four channel audio. And I didn't know how to mix mono channels to multichannel audio. And I didn't have a multichannel amp though I did have four speakers.