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Project #2 - Ambisonic Soundscapes |
During the interval between Project 1 (when I had only
recorded my hesitant cat) and Project 2, I have spent
many hours recording with my ambisonic microphone, and
quite a few making futile attempts. I found early on
that the Texas winds play havoc with field recordings.
My simple foam windscreen resists only the slightest of
winds; and this is March in Texas. The few indoor recordings
have been a real treat, however.
Overall, I have been very pleased with the quality of the sound from the microphone, especially the recordings in my church during a worship service. The sanctuary is nearly octagonal in shape with hard surfaces and has a good decay time for music. For my second project, I played three segments, two outdoors and one from a horn solo with piano from the church service. Other than a short video title for each seqment, the presentation was done in darkness. The audience stood on the bare floor in the ACTLab Studio 4B so they could move about and turn different directions to better sense what they were hearing from the room's 5.1 system. |
This is my typical field rig. The microphone is wearing
a new furry windscreen on its first recording trial, too
late for this project's soundscapes.
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Between now and my final project, I am going to play with
the amplitude on the front center channel of the sound
system, including a 4.1 variation. Although my recordings
were basically front-facing, comments from the presentation
suggested it was a bit front-heavy. I am still very much in
the experimental and learning stages with ambisonics.
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