[NewMusic] Core Sound ambisonic mics

[David Slusser]

On Nov 7, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Tom Duff wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, David Slusser wrote:
>
>> A colleague told me he had demoed the Core system, and
>> was not impressed with the capsules back when he did it.
>> He recommends the soundfield system, which he said
>> sounded pretty darned good on its own, outside a surround
>> situation.  He also said using the matrix box, you can
>> encode all the channels to a stereo pair, and then at a
>> later date decode for multi channel.
>>
>> http://www.soundfield.com/soundfield/soundfield.php
>
> Sure.  The Soundfield microphone costs over $6000. The Core Sound  
> mic is
> under $1000.  (It's the price I thought was remarkable, and the whole
> reason I posted the item.)  I'd be stunned if the Core Sound mic  
> performed
> as well as the Soundfield.

Okay, try this one on for size:

http://cag.csail.mit.edu/mic-array/

check out the harry caul in a box demo:

http://cag.csail.mit.edu/mic-array/videos/microphone-array-switching.wmv