[ywd]

And how does it pertain to headphones? It seems like some kind of surround sound in stereo type thing. Is any special equipment needed to use it? Headphones with a soundstage? (I have sr60s)

 

[ericj]

"two eared"

fwiw, the guy who pioneered stereo audio had envisioned (and experimented with) mixing techniques that would allow two speakers to reproduce the same audio experience as being in the same room as the musicians.

He never thought the music industry did it justice, and had envisioned "stereo" as something greater than "binaural"

Funny how things turn around.

 

[Sovkiller]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ywd /img/forum/go_quote.gif And how does it pertain to headphones? It seems like some kind of surround sound in stereo type thing. Is any special equipment needed to use it? Headphones with a soundstage? (I have sr60s)

Binaural is a recording in which the mikes are placed in the exact place where the ears are, so that gives you the exact way you should hear the event recorded, with the soundstage and spacial distribution of the intruments the exact real life way, instead of a simulated distribution done on the console in the recording studio....

You can find more info here...

 

[colonelkernel8]

Look at ericj's avatar, essentially they take a dummy head (for isolation and spacing) and put two omnidirectional microphones where the ears are. Then they record.

 

[ywd]

So are binaural recordings only listenable on headphones?

 

[ericj]

Quote:

Originally Posted by colonelkernel8 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Look at ericj's avatar, essentially they take a dummy head (for isolation and spacing) and put two omnidirectional microphones where the ears are. Then they record.

Ya, my avatar is an AKG D-99-C binaural microphone - aka "Harry".

fwiw i can't find a single positive review of the D-99-C. One engineer said it was great for making vocalists slightly uncomfortable.

 

[aaron-xp]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ywd /img/forum/go_quote.gif So are binaural recordings only listenable on headphones?

No, though they would probably sound best with headphones.

 

[RasmusseN]

my two fav binaural recordings:
http://www.terzoorecchio.com/carta.html
http://www.holophonic.ch.nyud.net:80...Holophonic.mp3

there is a huge thread of em there pretty sweet

 

[Uncle Erik]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ywd /img/forum/go_quote.gif So are binaural recordings only listenable on headphones?

Nope. They sound just fine on speakers, but you don't get the full effect without headphones. A real shame there are so few binaural studio recordings. The loudspeaker guys would by happy with them and headphone listeners would have multiple eargasms.

 

[65535]

With proper speaker placement speakers mainly dual speakers no surround sound, will give you the whole experience the key is to know how to place speakers, you can basically get the same performance that you would with headphones, but headphone seem to produce the best reproduction of good recordings. On a related note there is just something about having open air without headphones and speakers cranking out music with light ambient living noise.

 

[Contrastique]

Check out the Binaural link in my sig....Some nice exmples there on how they sound and what they do. Don't know if you have already seen it but still.

 

[lerio]

Dead link

First one is great

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Originally Posted by RasmusseN /img/forum/go_quote.gif http://www.holophonic.ch.nyud.net:80...Holophonic.mp3

 

[in_the_membrane]

Wow RasmusseN, this is seriously creepy, I could almost swear someone is behind me with a plastic bag... I keep trying to look over my shoulder.

And people say MS-1s have a small soundstage...

 

[Aidanael]

There's also this one : http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=22913

My fav of the moment ^^.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ywd /img/forum/go_quote.gif What exactly is binaural?

Audio recorded with a dummy head, with microphones mounted where the ears are placed.