Legally Download-able Binaural recordings links - Page 11

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Originally Posted by derbernd7 

Hi, 

i just joined this Forum... i'm a musician, and since a few months i'experimenting with binaural recordings... so if you like classical music: 

Live performance of Max Reger, Meine Seele ist still zu Gott

 

Reger meine Seele

 

Best wishes!

 

Bernd

That sounds fantastic! Thanks for sharing

Hi all,

I am developing a new type of dummy head for binaural recording, and am looking for feedback on what works and what does not, from headphoners..

I have previously contributed to Ambiophonics and kept the Audio and Three Dimensional Sound Links web resource. ( long since abandoned and pirated..)

I will be placing various binaural samples here:

http://www.freesound.org/people/dwareing/

I would be grateful for any feedback, either there or here.

David.
 

Thanks for the compliments on the Cowboy Junkies show from The Ark. That was quite the night. I wish we had shot video that night as well, but alas, this was not possible. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how the recording turned out - the one thing that I wish I could change (but accidents do indeed happen) is the gain shift in the FOH mix during "Moonlight Mile". Still, all in all it's a pretty intimate recording.

You might also like this recording, made in a very small venue (in this show, the performers were seated in an arc on stage, so the strong left-to-right placement that you will hear on any given track is due to that): http://archive.org/details/CappsDonohoeIannaceJackAndKristLiveAtTheTrinityHouseTheater

Note that on the archive.org site, I try to post as much technical detail as possible so that others who may have an interest can read about where the mics were placed etc.

There are a few others out there that have posted since then (ones that I have done) and some of these also have video, ironically, from the same venue where the Cowboy Junkies show was recorded. So, here are the links to a few excerpts from a concert featuring a band called Sumkali, and all of the content in the videos from that show is binaural, made with the same type of mannequin head:

Akhian Udeekdian:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_oumi50dy0

and you can find other excerpts from that show just by browsing the YT site.

If you're into Kirtan (call and response chanting), here's another link. This show is (like the CJ show from The Ark) part binaural and part stereo (the stereo component comes from an OSS type of microphone that I designed and fabricated), however, there's a bit more stereo content in this relative to the binaural content. I had to post them on the site at 192 kbps mp3 (file size issues) but they still sound quite good for 192 kbps.  http://kirtanannarbor.org/annarborholidaykirtan2012.cfm

Lastly (for now anyway), if you like Sam Roberts Band (Montreal, Canada), you might like this recording from The Fillmore Detroit: http://archive.org/details/SRB2009-11-28

This show is anything but acoustic, but it is fully binaural, again, made using a Neumann type KU 100.

I hope you enjoy the links...

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Originally Posted by immersifi 

Thanks for the compliments on the Cowboy Junkies show from The Ark. That was quite the night. I wish we had shot video that night as well, but alas, this was not possible. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with how the recording turned out - the one thing that I wish I could change (but accidents do indeed happen) is the gain shift in the FOH mix during "Moonlight Mile". Still, all in all it's a pretty intimate recording.

 

 

Ah! So you are responsible for that recording! I have really been enjoying that CJ show. It's been getting some good rotation in my listening. I look forward to checking out the other stuff.

Thanks!

Yeah...I'm the one alright. I was at a CJ show at The Ark about 14 months prior, and I sat there thinking that "these guys would be great to record in binaural". Fast forward to October 2009, and it all kind of worked out.

I have such great memories of that show - from watching the dynamics of the sound check (they were fighting some bizarre room modes that were causing headaches for the bass player which took a long time to fix) to hanging out with some of the band in the alley, having a cigarette, etc. I have to say, being at sound check was great - to have been (literally) 10 feet away from them as they worked through the sound / segues and so on was really cool. The opening act for that night (Lee Harvey Osmond) put on a great show as well, and the pedal-steel player who played in the CJ set sat in on the LHO set, which really rounded out some of the numbers they performed. I have those tracks as well, but they have not officially been 'cleared', so no one's heard them but me...and the cat from Lee Harvey Osmond.

Anyway, I'm glad that you liked the CJ recordings.

If you want to see / hear a quick demo of binaural + video (if you web search for "A Fun and Simple Binaural Audio Demo (USE HEADPHONES)" you should find it) - I shot a short video (just over two minutes)  with binaural audio. The whole thing is a static camera shot, which is unlike the Sumkali binaural video links (for those links, the camera traveled, but the mannequin head stayed were it was). Anyway, it's a fun, short demo that, by using synchronous video, helps to demonstrate some aspects of binaural localization in the presence of synchronous video.

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Originally Posted by immersifi 

Yeah...I'm the one alright. I was at a CJ show at The Ark about 14 months prior, and I sat there thinking that "these guys would be great to record in binaural". Fast forward to October 2009, and it all kind of worked out.

 

I have such great memories of that show - from watching the dynamics of the sound check (they were fighting some bizarre room modes that were causing headaches for the bass player which took a long time to fix) to hanging out with some of the band in the alley, having a cigarette, etc. I have to say, being at sound check was great - to have been (literally) 10 feet away from them as they worked through the sound / segues and so on was really cool. The opening act for that night (Lee Harvey Osmond) put on a great show as well, and the pedal-steel player who played in the CJ set sat in on the LHO set, which really rounded out some of the numbers they performed. I have those tracks as well, but they have not officially been 'cleared', so no one's heard them but me...and the cat from Lee Harvey Osmond.

 

Anyway, I'm glad that you liked the CJ recordings.

 

If you want to see / hear a quick demo of binaural + video (if you web search for "A Fun and Simple Binaural Audio Demo (USE HEADPHONES)" you should find it) - I shot a short video (just over two minutes)  with binaural audio. The whole thing is a static camera shot, which is unlike the Sumkali binaural video links (for those links, the camera traveled, but the mannequin head stayed were it was). Anyway, it's a fun, short demo that, by using synchronous video, helps to demonstrate some aspects of binaural localization in the presence of synchronous video.

Cool...thanks for sharing the background story! Good stuff. I will check out that binaural/video demo. Thanks again.