Zoom H6
Scott Dorsey wrote:
George Graves wrote:
Funny thing about imaging. It has to exist in the recording. Often,
in mode= rn recordings, especially commercial pop/rock recordings
it's not. It also = doesn't exist in multimiked/multi-channel
classical recordings or in most c= ommercial jazz recordings. True
stereo (the only way to get real image spec= ificity, image height
and imaging front-to-back layering) just isn't done t= hat much,
commercially
And that, in short, is why people use things like the Bose 901s,
which add artificial phase cues in there.
--scott
No, I have tried to explain to you that there is more to speaker sound and
imaging than frequency response. Most engineers have a hard time thinking in
spatial terms, but the effects of the 901's radiation pattern are spatial,
not "phase" or "comb filtering" or any other nonsense that you can measure
with a microphone. They are spatial effects, caused by the radiation pattern
and its interacction with the room surfaces.
The easiest way to understand the spatial nature of sound is to make an
image model drawing. This is a technique from architectural acoustics in
which you draw the reflected sound as virtual sources on the other side of
the rerlecting surfaces, rather than ray tracing. It gives you a bird's eye
view of the entire horizontal early reflection situation. Using this
technique you can more easily see the effects of speaker positioning,
especially for multi-directional speakers. Very instructive.
Gary Eickmeier
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