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Natural Sound Recording of an Orchestra with Three-Dimensional Sound

Authors: Hamasaki, Kimio; Van Baelen, Wilfried

AES Convention 138 · Paper 9348 · May 2015

Abstract

This paper introduces the microphone techniques for recording an orchestra with three-dimensional multichannel sound and discusses the spatial impression provided by the recorded sound of an orchestra. Listeners in a concert hall simultaneously hear both a direct sound arriving from each musical instrument and an indirect sound reflected from the walls and the ceiling. Concerning a direct sound, existing microphone techniques can be used for three-dimensional multichannel sound with necessary modification, but new microphone techniques should be developed for an indirect sound. This paper will propose the microphone technique consisting of a main microphone array and an ambience microphone array, which will enable us to control spatial impressions easily and realize the stable sound source localization.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 138
AES Convention
138
Paper number
9348
Publication date
May 6, 2015
Session subject
Recording and Production
Affiliation
Artsridge LLC, Chiba, Japan; Auro Technologies N.V., Mol, Belgium (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper