4 capsuled mic? From your pre-edited comment: you probably have twigged on now that the mic is only a two capsuled mic, so it's stereo, with an ear over each capsule that infuses binaural information to the recorded sound, giving us external perceptions of where the sound is coming from, when the volume is set correctly on playback. I think this version of the new mic sounds pretty epic! Thank you for leaving a comment.
At the beginning of my video career, in the early 1990s, I was fortunate to work on an air show in Kalamazoo Michigan that featured a demo of a MiG-29 as well as a full Blue Angels presentation. Back then I had fantasized about capturing the audio in full-frequency binaural. And now you've done it! I'm looking forward to more. My impressions: good immersive effect, excellent dynamic range (seemingly uncompressed), generally excellent frequency pickup (perhaps a little lacking below, say, 80 Hz). My experiments with binaural, including having my personal HRTFs being measured back in the 90's, have shown me that for optimum binaural effect the pickup and my HRTFs must match pretty closely. That's why Apple's Personal-Spatial-Audio works so well for me and my AirPod Pros. When spatial audio is turned on I actually get some externalization of the sound field. Too bad mere mortals cannot turn on the necessary flag to activate the effect on RUclips (I've only found it works with streamed multichannel movies and spatial-encoded Apple Music material). As it is in this recording while the ambient immersion is good, I never got a firm impression of "upness" that you get at a live airshow. Nor was there much pinpoint precision in L/R positioning in beach-parallel flybys of the Typhoon. Mind you, these are the same effects I hear in other binaural recordings of more mundane material, such as music. I'd be interested to hear what others think. It may be an "only-me" problem. BTW generally excellent camera work, especially some of the shots in the Red Arrows segment. You were lucky that the background clouds had just enough texture to maintain a sense of motion and of position when zoomed in. I found back in Kalamazoo that with a clear blue sky you can lose both since there is no visual frame of reference.
Hi, thank you for your detailed comment. I can agree with you on many levels, binaural is very much down to the shape of the pinna recording equipment and your own pinna, if the shape is off set by too much, it just causes confusion of perception. I also recorded last year's typhoon at Southport with the original mic that has been made since 2013 when I first realised hot to create "analogue" binaural, the new stuff on iPhone I've heard of, but not actually tried it yet, and hands down for the audio on the iPhone 15, which is actually very good, the batteries died on the Zoom F3, so was quite disappointed as they only lasted n hour or so, but shows off it's capability very well in the Red Arrows section, and, as being an obsessed photographer back in the 90's myself, I too thought that a few shots were actually pretty good too, and indeed the texture of the cloud formation sure helped give a sense of movement where I also tried not to always be zoomed in, but to try and show the sense of distance to help bring the binaural aspect into its own, the iPhone sure handled the videography admirably, the hand sake and little movements have been completely eliminated by the phone it'self, no processing of the video apart from fades and cuts were made, the audio side was a direct file transfer from the recorder, and was selected for output as IEEE float, at 32 bit, I have no idea what RUclips does to the audio when it is processed by them, the software was davinci resolve, which I think is a fantastic free software. I am very excited about the results from the new circuits inside the microphone and hope that any comments reflect this, as yours did. I am obsessed with binaural, as I was in the 90's with photography, I had my own darkroom and 3 enlargers and many different format cameras, from 1/4 plate, to 35mm, and I have processed the negatives and prints in both colour and black and white, then in 1995, got given a computer by a very close friend at the time which got me into computing, where the obsession in that took over until RUclips came about, and I eventually found the magic of audio, and the different modes it has, mono, stereo and binaural for the analogue types, am not looking at the digital aspects of it, but understand that maybe one day, I may find someone who can place my ideas for the formulation of algorithms that possibly could add binaural information to mono sound sources.
there can´t be a great panorama with so many refections. To me this sounds as good as possible.
Good content, thank you!
4 capsuled mic? From your pre-edited comment: you probably have twigged on now that the mic is only a two capsuled mic, so it's stereo, with an ear over each capsule that infuses binaural information to the recorded sound, giving us external perceptions of where the sound is coming from, when the volume is set correctly on playback.
I think this version of the new mic sounds pretty epic!
Thank you for leaving a comment.
At the beginning of my video career, in the early 1990s, I was fortunate to work on an air show in Kalamazoo Michigan that featured a demo of a MiG-29 as well as a full Blue Angels presentation. Back then I had fantasized about capturing the audio in full-frequency binaural. And now you've done it! I'm looking forward to more. My impressions: good immersive effect, excellent dynamic range (seemingly uncompressed), generally excellent frequency pickup (perhaps a little lacking below, say, 80 Hz). My experiments with binaural, including having my personal HRTFs being measured back in the 90's, have shown me that for optimum binaural effect the pickup and my HRTFs must match pretty closely. That's why Apple's Personal-Spatial-Audio works so well for me and my AirPod Pros. When spatial audio is turned on I actually get some externalization of the sound field. Too bad mere mortals cannot turn on the necessary flag to activate the effect on RUclips (I've only found it works with streamed multichannel movies and spatial-encoded Apple Music material). As it is in this recording while the ambient immersion is good, I never got a firm impression of "upness" that you get at a live airshow. Nor was there much pinpoint precision in L/R positioning in beach-parallel flybys of the Typhoon. Mind you, these are the same effects I hear in other binaural recordings of more mundane material, such as music. I'd be interested to hear what others think. It may be an "only-me" problem. BTW generally excellent camera work, especially some of the shots in the Red Arrows segment. You were lucky that the background clouds had just enough texture to maintain a sense of motion and of position when zoomed in. I found back in Kalamazoo that with a clear blue sky you can lose both since there is no visual frame of reference.
Hi, thank you for your detailed comment. I can agree with you on many levels, binaural is very much down to the shape of the pinna recording equipment and your own pinna, if the shape is off set by too much, it just causes confusion of perception. I also recorded last year's typhoon at Southport with the original mic that has been made since 2013 when I first realised hot to create "analogue" binaural, the new stuff on iPhone I've heard of, but not actually tried it yet, and hands down for the audio on the iPhone 15, which is actually very good, the batteries died on the Zoom F3, so was quite disappointed as they only lasted n hour or so, but shows off it's capability very well in the Red Arrows section, and, as being an obsessed photographer back in the 90's myself, I too thought that a few shots were actually pretty good too, and indeed the texture of the cloud formation sure helped give a sense of movement where I also tried not to always be zoomed in, but to try and show the sense of distance to help bring the binaural aspect into its own, the iPhone sure handled the videography admirably, the hand sake and little movements have been completely eliminated by the phone it'self, no processing of the video apart from fades and cuts were made, the audio side was a direct file transfer from the recorder, and was selected for output as IEEE float, at 32 bit, I have no idea what RUclips does to the audio when it is processed by them, the software was davinci resolve, which I think is a fantastic free software.
I am very excited about the results from the new circuits inside the microphone and hope that any comments reflect this, as yours did. I am obsessed with binaural, as I was in the 90's with photography, I had my own darkroom and 3 enlargers and many different format cameras, from 1/4 plate, to 35mm, and I have processed the negatives and prints in both colour and black and white, then in 1995, got given a computer by a very close friend at the time which got me into computing, where the obsession in that took over until RUclips came about, and I eventually found the magic of audio, and the different modes it has, mono, stereo and binaural for the analogue types, am not looking at the digital aspects of it, but understand that maybe one day, I may find someone who can place my ideas for the formulation of algorithms that possibly could add binaural information to mono sound sources.