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Post by rowuk on Mar 3, 2008 15:36:53 GMT
My second son is studying recording engineering and is looking for a subject that has not been dealt with before and has industrial relevance. We have limited funds, so I thought I would ask the gear heads here is anything relevant comes to mind. We wanted to do a remote controlled microphone positioning system, but that project has been taken. All aspects of recording and playback can be considered. Thank you for any possible help.
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Post by Sol on Mar 3, 2008 17:42:53 GMT
What about the effects on production quality of the MP3 expolsion .... i.e. differences between production techniques.
or is it meant to be "gear" driven ... i.e. mechanical engineering based
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2008 21:15:43 GMT
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How about the use of high resolution recording (SACD/DVD-A mastering techniques) and their application to the creating of much higher quality CD releases than currently available. e.g. The CD release of the Norah Jones SACD is obviously mastered from the original SACD Master, and on good equipment is very close indeed to the original SACD, whereas other Norah Jones CDs are way behind in SQ in comparison. It also has to do with the hidden cues that remain after conversion to 44.1KHZ and anti aliasing is done ? This theory has been expounded elsewhere. Alex
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2008 21:18:04 GMT
Sol You mean "shit" as compared to "SHIT" or " SHIT" Alex
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Post by rickcr42 on Mar 4, 2008 0:25:01 GMT
how about the final frontier of audio-capturing the SPACE of a performance and then recreating it in the home. You can go all the way back to the original Hafler Dynaquad ambience extractor to the quadraphonics nightmare on to the "next wave" which was audio delay lines for the rear channels to increase the apparent room size (search for the original cambridge mass demo) then to movie surround sound which takes from all of the above then onwards and upwards to binaural and omnisonics then conclude the piece with "unfortunately no matter what electronic trickery we tried the illusion of space was never quite right unless we closed our eyes because eyes open our brain was telling us "NO WAY DUDE" while our easrs were saying "WAY"
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Post by XTRProf on Mar 4, 2008 6:02:48 GMT
Hi guys, I think what they need is mechanical base, if I'm not wrong, from their implication. If others also can be considered, both Alex and Rick visions are great things to look into as that really does enhance our enjoyment of the content. Obviously, it must be something to do with hirez stuffs as we are talking of studio recordings and not wannabe recordings. If I'm the project supervisor (Prof) grading here, I will give a higher grade for hirez stuffs than low in your proposal. The project obviously must up the ante of recording to score higher marks.
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Post by rowuk on Mar 4, 2008 16:08:03 GMT
Thanks for the input! My son is not limited to software/hardware, it just has to be UNIQUE and of industrial relevance. Hardware is maybe easier to prove.
Rick, have you ever listened to John Eargles recordings for DELOS (4 microphones: ortf array in the middle and 2 omnis at the left and right side of the stage)? They produce a pretty believable space with only 2 speakers........
I do have a Dynaco/Hafler album here somewhere for demonstration of the pseudo quad.
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Post by sometrolls2 on Mar 4, 2008 20:47:19 GMT
The one thing the forum users have done a lot of is more or less like for like upgrades and component rolling, coincidently a lot of pro equipment suffers from a lot of pretty poor PSUs also. Doing something like demonstarting that for 10 Euros more, a piece of pro equipment would make significantly less noisy original recordings etc. Also cap degradation in older equipment. An intersting thing would be the super regs which can be DIYed for a few euros, bought for 50 but have obvious benefits, at some point someone will make these in China and undercut the market.
A second area might be the use of inaudible frequencies in playback, something Graham was always keen on.
How about 3D effects and those damned in the ear phones, major gaming and MP3 applications there.
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Post by rickcr42 on Mar 5, 2008 3:15:58 GMT
Rick, have you ever listened to John Eargles recordings for DELOS (4 microphones: ortf array in the middle and 2 omnis at the left and right side of the stage)? They produce a pretty believable space with only 2 speakers........ sorry no but I do have extensive time with most of the others.Some intersesting work with HRTFs and headtracking are being done by both MIT and the US Military and offhand can't come up with the links but if you go to headfi and do a search on "binaural" or "Headphone surround" you will find some very good threads on both the technical and theoretical fronts with links to sites for more information
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Post by rowuk on Mar 20, 2008 11:59:58 GMT
So, what finally got approved is a project which puts multiple audio perspectives on a single DVD. You will be able to choose for instance from a front row or middle of house "sweet spot" seat with playback designed for speakers and perhaps a binaural mix for headphones. This will not be plastic perspective generated by the computer. It will be additional microphones designed to do the job correctly. The industrial relevance of course is the added feature of picking the perspective that suits your concert going listening habits. If you want more detail, you pick the front row perspective and if you want to listen to the music with "the big picture", you can pick the sweet spot. I am sure you can guess where the headphone suggestion came from................. We investigated moving freely about the concert hall using a surround system. The technical hurdles are too great if you want the REAL THING. Plastic surround would be a possibility, my son is into audio quality however.
We will need to make this menu driven like picking a language on a DVD movie and surround probably will not be able to be handled as the project would just get too big (but will be considered for future ventures).
If any of you have had good experiences in productions with "convincing" binaural perspective, we would be interested.
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