Friday, March 7, 2008

Binaural Samba Squad Audio Documentary

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This 'cast is an exploration of the world of Binaural recording. Its best listened to on headphones.




I'm using a binaural microphone set up. 2 microphones that look like earbuds go in my ears.



The result is a listening experience that spatially transcends normally recorded stereo, since it accurately reproduces the effect of hearing a sound in person, given the 360° nature of how human ears pick up nuance in the sound waves.

Binaural recordings can very convincingly reproduce location of sound behind, ahead, above, or wherever else the sound actually came from during recording. Once recorded, the binaural effect can be reproduced only using headphones. It does not work with mono playback; nor does it work while using loudspeaker units, as the acoustics of this arrangement distort the channel separation via natural crossfeed (an approximation can be obtained if the listening environment is carefully designed by employing expensive crossfeed cancellation equipment.)


The actual show is an audio documentary: A Samba Squad corporate gig.
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