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ambush · Jan 28, 2006, 04:14 PM

ONLY works with headphones

I was blasted away!

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/te...Holophonic.mp3

porieux · 06:57 AM

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Kevin · Jan 28, 2006, 04:26 PM

Wont with with me. I am dysfunctional.

MrForgetable · Jan 28, 2006, 04:27 PM

I have an entire CD made by Stax of these types of recordings. Pretty cool stuff.

analogika · Jan 28, 2006, 05:03 PM

google "kunstkopf"

Rolling Bones · Jan 28, 2006, 05:43 PM

Sounds like a guy walking back and forth while brushing his teeth

Didn't blow me away.

I wear earphones alot and get the same effect when listening to music...especially Pink Floyd.

May have been better with a music sample, I dunno.

CollinG3G4 · Jan 28, 2006, 06:19 PM

Can music be recorded in this manner?

Doofy · Jan 28, 2006, 06:46 PM

TETENAL · Jan 28, 2006, 07:02 PM

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/voce.mp3

That one is interesting as well although I don't like it when people spit into my ear when speaking.

CharlesS · Jan 28, 2006, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by CollinG3G4

Can music be recorded in this manner?

I believe that all you have to do is wear a microphone on each ear (I've seen glasses with microphones mounted to the frames near the ears). Each mic is mono - the one on the right ear records the right audio channel, and the one on the left ear records the left audio channel. You just record whatever while set up this way, and you end up with something that, when played through headphones, sounds just like it would sound if you were right there using your two ears to listen to it.

analogika · Jan 28, 2006, 07:14 PM

the real "kunstkopf" (artificial head) recordings of the 70s were done with the membranes at eardrum level, with anatomically correct "ears" and a "chest" resonator attached to the head, which apparently strongly influences the perceived sound.

Amazing stuff.

keekeeree · Jan 28, 2006, 07:51 PM

Check the extras on your Monsters, Inc. DVD for more of this kind of stuff featuring John Goodman and Billy Crystal.

teney7 · Jan 28, 2006, 08:45 PM

WOW that is unbelievable...

iomatic · Jan 28, 2006, 08:47 PM

creepy! it works!

ambush · Jan 28, 2006, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by Rolling Bones

Sounds like a guy walking back and forth while brushing his teeth

Didn't blow me away.

I wear earphones alot and get the same effect when listening to music...especially Pink Floyd.

May have been better with a music sample, I dunno.

Yay for the "I'm never impressed" kind of people!

We love you

Gator Lager · Jan 28, 2006, 09:16 PM

I'm impressed, thanks for the link.
really cool

ShotgunEd · Jan 28, 2006, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by Rolling Bones

Sounds like a guy walking back and forth while brushing his teeth

Didn't blow me away.

I wear earphones alot and get the same effect when listening to music...especially Pink Floyd.

Yeah I love that bit in darkside when dave gilmour really gets to work on his plaque.

RAILhead · Jan 28, 2006, 09:21 PM

Cool beans.

alligator · Jan 28, 2006, 10:18 PM

Awwww, that's just gross! I feel like I've had someone in my house I didn't let in! Weird!

Rolling Bones · Jan 28, 2006, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by ambush

Yay for the "I'm never impressed" kind of people!

We love you

Stick the head in the middle of a symphony orchestra and I might be impressed.

Kevin · Jan 28, 2006, 11:28 PM

No YOU are Holophonic!

euchomai · Jan 29, 2006, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by Rolling Bones

blah, blah, blah

Mr. Positive is back again. Great.

JoshuaZ · Jan 29, 2006, 12:37 AM

Really kind of weird.

Rolling Bones · Jan 29, 2006, 12:39 AM

Originally Posted by euchomai

Mr. Positive is back again. Great.

Hi, how are you? I like you. You're cool. Now fekk off!

euchomai · Jan 29, 2006, 12:51 AM

Rolling Bones: "Proving his manhood one post at a time!"

I give you permission to use that quote in your sig, it's better than the lame old one you have now kiddo.

Rolling Bones · Jan 29, 2006, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by euchomai

Rolling Bones: "Proving his manhood one post at a time!"

I give you permission to use that quote in your sig, it's better than the lame old one you have now kiddo.

I tried to send a message thru that post to quit stalking me but you didn't get it.

Instead you're bent on derailing this thread.

Now go away.

spatterson · Jan 29, 2006, 01:12 AM

Very Creepy! :-D

It put chills down my back!

KeriVit · Jan 29, 2006, 01:45 AM

Kewl. I want more.

f1000 · 05:35 AM

I've been meaning to listen to Steven King's binaural recording of The Mist. Maybe one of these days...

EDIT: There's apparently a difference between holophony and binaural recording. I can certainly hear it.

macintologist · Jan 29, 2006, 04:33 AM

That Is So ****ed Up

kick52 · Jan 29, 2006, 05:43 AM

thats really good.

ah! who is that guy shaking tic tacs in my ear?

oh....

euphras · Jan 29, 2006, 10:48 AM

Pretty cool! But i always had the impression that the matchbox was sidewards or behind my head, never in front of it

Stradlater · Jan 29, 2006, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by euphras

Pretty cool! But i always had the impression that the matchbox was sidewards or behind my head, never in front of it

That's how it sounded to me too. However, about halfway through the recording, it not only sounded to the right side of me, but it sounded as if it was going down (and not moving from side to side) and then up until it was above the original point. At this higher point, the sound traveled above my head to the left.

f1000 · Jan 29, 2006, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by euphras

Pretty cool! But i always had the impression that the matchbox was sidewards or behind my head, never in front of it

1) Earphones and canalphones may work better than circumaural and supra-aural headphones.
2) Closing ones eyes can enhance the visualization of the sound space.

Kevin · Jan 29, 2006, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Rolling Bones

I tried to send a message thru that post to quit stalking me but you didn't get it.

Instead you're bent on derailing this thread.

Now go away.

Someone getting a taste of his own medicine and not liking it hmmm?

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 29, 2006, 02:13 PM

The speakers on my TV do the same thing with only the two speakers in the set, it is really cool.

MaxPower2k3 · Jan 29, 2006, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun

The speakers on my TV do the same thing with only the two speakers in the set, it is really cool.

I think that's done by simulating the effect the shape of the ear has on sound waves coming in at different angles. so if a sound is supposed to be behind you, it puts a filter on it that makes it "equivalent" to an actual sound behind you that was reflected around your ear and into your ear canal. At least, I think it was something like that... my dad explained it to me a while ago and I probably don't remember it quite right.

Doofy · Jan 29, 2006, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by MaxPower2k3

I think that's done by simulating the effect the shape of the ear has on sound waves coming in at different angles. so if a sound is supposed to be behind you, it puts a filter on it that makes it "equivalent" to an actual sound behind you that was reflected around your ear and into your ear canal. At least, I think it was something like that... my dad explained it to me a while ago and I probably don't remember it quite right.

Google for "Roland RSS" to get a rough idea.

spatterson · Jan 29, 2006, 07:05 PM

does anyone recognise that language she is speaking? Its so sensual... and neat too!!! Maybe some one knows what she is actually saying.... Voice Here

f1000 · Jan 30, 2006, 02:54 AM

Originally Posted by spatterson

does anyone recognise that language she is speaking? Its so sensual... and neat too!!! Maybe some one knows what she is actually saying.... Voice Here

I think it's Italian, since voce = voice in Italian. It sounds like she's saying "Né vicino, né vicino, suono molto..." but then I become too excited to make out the rest.