Sound (56)

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Cardioid-based surround array

Cardioid-based surround array This microphone system should be used, when you need a very smooth and equal coverage of the soundscape around you. As you might have already guessed, this is mainly for 5.x setups. And it also has a lot of details with the…

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Burmajster Array

Burmajster Array Chris Burmajster is a retired ex-DECCA engineer. He developed the Burmajster array, which consists of a regular ORTF setup with a center microphone and two rear-facing SDC cardioids. The original setup used three AKG C 414 microphones. Combining LDC and SDC microphones in…

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Art and Science of Immersive Recording

A Meeting of Art and Science When Hyunkook Lee and Grammy Award-winning mixer/producer Andrew Scheps first connected at the AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio, it was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. Andrew, impressed by Hyunkook's organ recital recording, described the experience:…

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Ambisonic microphone systems you can buy

Ambisonic microphone systems you can buy Zylia ZM-1 If you have some money saved up and are looking for an extraordinary high-order ambisonic microphone system, you may want to try this: People sometimes sell the Zylia ZM-1 on eBay for an attractive price because they…

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Align the LTC in Reaper

Align the time in Reaper We prefer Reaper as our DAW, but it has some drawbacks that really suck. Unlike other professional DAWs, you can't import recordings according to their LTC. For example: We made some test-recordings with the ECHO projects "ESMA-3D v2". We used…

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