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M/S Stereo system with two caridioid microphones When we first saw this, we couldn't believe it! How should that work? Just two cardioid microphones facing each other and that's it? Actually ... yes! At least when it comes down to the recording itself. The routing…

IRT cross It consists of four cardioid microphones arranged in a square. The microphones are angled 90 degrees from one another and spaced 20 to 25 cm apart. With wide cardioids it should be 31 cm. But these microphones are not very common in the…

How to record SMPTE timecode if your handheld-recorder doesn't provide this feature. Let's assume, you have a handheld recorder with no SMPTE features, neither read, nor write. But you need to synchronize your recordings to a video in post with a time-code, in this case…

Handheld recorders Since our focus is on immersive audio, we look for recorders with at least four microphone inputs (XLR). While other handheld recorders are great and offer great advantages, they are not suitable for our purposes. Therefore, we are not focusing on them. However,…

HØSMA HOSMA is a project of the "AudioGroupCologne" of the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. Although it is about six years old, it hasn't lost any of its fascinating details. But what is it? It is a 3D-printed sphere with a diameter of 23.5…