The Impact of Height Microphone Layer Position on Perceived Realism of Organ Recording Reproduction

Luo J, Treanor G. The Impact of Height Microphone Layer Position on Perceived Realism of Organ Recording Reproduction. In: Convention Paper. Audio Engineering Society; 2024. Paper 10189. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22692

@inproceedings{Luo2024_22692,
  author = {Luo, Jessica and Treanor, Garrett},
  title = {{The Impact of Height Microphone Layer Position on Perceived Realism of Organ Recording Reproduction}},
  note = {Paper 10189},
  year = {2024},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22692}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - The Impact of Height Microphone Layer Position on Perceived Realism of Organ Recording Reproduction
AU  - Luo, Jessica
AU  - Treanor, Garrett
M1  - Paper 10189
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/09/27
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=22692
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - For on-site immersive recordings, height microphones are often placed carefully to avoid a distorted or unrealistic image, with many established immersive microphone arrays placing the height microphones 1.5 m or less above the horizontal layer. However, with an instrument so acoustically symbiotic with its space as the pipe organ, the impact of non-coincident height microphone placement has not previously been explored in-depth. Despite this, the pipe organs radiation characteristics may benefit from non-coincident height microphone placement, providing subjectively improved tone color without sacrificing perceived realism. Subjective listening tests were conducted comparing a pipe organ recording with coincident and non-coincident height microphone positions. The findings of this case study conclude that non-coincident height microphone placement does not significantly impact perceived realism of the immersive organ recording.
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