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Video and Binaural Audio

Started May 1, 2020 | Discussions thread
Sean Nelson
Sean Nelson Forum Pro • Posts: 16,109
Re: Video and Binaural Audio
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Markr041 wrote:

Roland makes a cheap (omnidirectional) mic/earbud combo (CS-10EM) with excellent fidelity properties - you put it your ears, just like any earbuds (it looks just the same). It has wires with two plugs - for the mic-in and for the headphone out (the latter is not required). So if you have a headphone jack in the camera or recorder you can monitor exactly what the mics are picking up, which of course is exactly what you would hear without them! So, the rig adds nothing to weight and is inconspicuous.

That sounds very cool, a far cheaper option than the fancy binaural dummy head microphones which are supposed to reproduce the delay and shaping of sound that reaches each ear through the mass of your head. Using your actual head do to it - well now that's using your head!

It's something I would have loved to try out, except that my left ear is now kaput, which means I've totally lost my ability to perceive stereo sound or indeed even tell which direction a sound is coming from.

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