22 Jul
2010
22 Jul
'10
4:45 p.m.
On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:29:01 Chris Cannam wrote:
It makes sense to reduce B-format to stereo.
But the target is important, if you aim at headphones, there are decoders that
create an binaural signal. If normal stereo-systems are the target, you will
do a decoding similar to any ambisonics setup but only use two speakers in the
correct stereo positions and decode to file...
The headphone-version gives more of the ambisonics feeling, but the normal
stereo signal also benefits from the recording done in ambisonics.
Have fun,
Arnold
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>
wrote:
you don't
ned anything fancy to listen to B-format
recordings, and one of the major reasons for that is fons' open source
decoder that will allow you to listen to them with any jack-enabled
audio player and your existing equipment.
Question that just occurred to me. I'm very ignorant about spatial
audio, and although I'm sure several of my colleagues could tell me
this, I thought it might be sort of on-topic here. Is it possible, or
easy, or sensible, or worthwhile, to reduce a B-format recording into
stereo in multiple different ways in order to achieve different
subjective "listener position" results when using headphones?