Binaural sound kit

[Celia]

Hi guys,
From the other side of the spectrum, here is a lost artist with desperate need to try binaural recording for herself. Planning a video installation for my degree show where the spatial sound played back over headphones will hopefully play a major part. That is if i succeed..

New to the business, with high expectations and an amateur's budget can anyone please recommend me some good binaural mikes and headphones to start me off? Any particular favorites out there?

Read around here that model head for wigs have been used as dummy heads so may try that out, but any advice on the gear side will be immensely appreciated

cheers!

[matt thomas]

you can use your own head and some small lapel mics in your ears.

make sure the mics pattern is omni

it'll be cheap as chips

narco

[big country]

how much are looking to spend.

binaural doesn't give you the full 3d effect but it puts in the ball park.

I'm currently building a semi binaural mic ( as it doesnt have ears ) that offers binaural and my spin off
of the jeckline, com binding , its a different combination of different mic separations and mic angle than what is known as the jeckline disc

basically its got a different form of space separation ( hopefully phase? ), the Mic's on the jeckile wanna be portion are 90deg parallel.

could possibly work great in 3d applications with proper time and phase
adjusting software or hard ware

as it has four different Mic's , hoping for a desert island mic

should have it working to day

its for sale.

its buttery looking cool ...
with a bit of WTF!
big piece of art looking thing

[big country]

better to find a professional studio that can Handel professional 3d recordings
might save time money if you want true professional 3d results

unless its something your truly passionate about learning
then buy a mic.

[NorseHorse]

SASS-P MK II

I think the CROWN SASS mic is binaural? I bought mine for $500 used.

Cheers.

[big country]

Originally Posted by NorseHorse

SASS-P MK II

I think the CROWN SASS mic is binaural? I bought mine for $500 used.

Cheers.

probably a great mic for rooms with many reflections

PZM...

[mohthom]

Soundman OKM . . .

[joeshambro]

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[Dave C]

Folks,

spaced omnis, PZMs, whatever, with whatever type of baffle you want to place between them will not give you a Binaural recording. Binaural recordings can only be made using ears. Either your own, someone elses, or a dummy head's. That's it. Apart from close miced sources filtered using HRTF's or sounds synthesized from scratch with binaural cues, there is no other way to get a spatially realistic Binaural recording.

So, apart from sitcking mics in your ears (a la Soundman OKM mics) the other options mentioned so far are NOT binaural recordings.

If the original poster wants stereo recordings, then any of the methods mentioned will do (Jecklin, Crown thingy, etc), and they may be quite immersive, spacious, etc; but this is different from spatial Binaural recording, which will give the aural illusion of direction and distance to a listener using headphones. True Binaural recording is not just any type of close together or all in one stereo micing, it is a specific type of spatial recording with a specific aim of being able to accurately localise sounds in any direction by the listener, which so far only accurately works when listening on headphones.

Regards,

Dave C.

[big country]

I heard that about the ol binaural.
I don't think I tottay agree with that .

although ears help crank the high frequncies and knock off some of the omni. and makes it a little more directional

look at the word in its self ,

its not a subject worth arguing over
at least not to me...

[Shadow_7]

Originally Posted by NorseHorse

SASS-P MK II

I think the CROWN SASS mic is binaural? I bought mine for $500 used.

Cheers.

Nice. Any samples of this mic in action? Wind Noise? Brass Ensemble? This one looks like one of those that I didn't know that I wanted, until I saw it on craigslist type mics. I can't really tell much from the frequency response curve as it looks a bit drawn. And the only sample I have so far for this mic is a 22.05kHz MP3 file of thunder.

Thanks,
James