[LAU] Elevation with Stereo?

Philipp hollunder at lavabit.com
Thu Apr 29 23:13:33 UTC 2010


Excerpts from Jörn Nettingsmeier's message of 2010-04-30 00:58:27 +0200:
> On 04/29/2010 11:59 PM, Philipp wrote:
> > I wonder whether it's impossible or whether there are ways to achieve
> > some kind of elevation effect with plain old stereo.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization#Sound_localization_in_the_median_plane_.28front.2C_above.2C_back.2C_below.29
> 
> has a reference to blauert's work, but it's pretty sparse otherwise.
> 
> german wikipedia is more detailed:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blauertsche_B%C3%A4nder
> 
> and yes, you should have a good chance of faking some of those cues. 
> haven't tried it myself, though.

Thanks Jörn.
I wouldn't have expected to find anything on that in wikipedia..
I'll certainly experiment with it, maybe I can achieve what I envision.
Ambisonics would probably be far superior for that, but besides me
pretty much everyone else lacks an ambisonics system.

Thanks,
Philipp



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