Subject : Roundabout in Le Soler near Perpignan, the roundabout is between the D916 and road Emile Zola heading north. A lucky event took place of cars honking to celebrate a wedding. Ended the recording as I missed my bus, which you can hear drive by lol
Date YMD : 2024 10 22 around 15h10
Location : Le Soler near Perpignan, the roundabout is between the D916 and road Emile Zola heading north. France.
Hardware : Zoom H2n in "Spatial audio" mode. With wind cover.
Notes : Grey sky with pockets of light, slightly windy. Mic on tripod. There's tree chopping SW. Tesla/electric cars, BMW and Mercedes amongst the wedding cars. One of the first cars does a cheeky drift.
Processing : None as I don't know how to preserve "Spatial audio" recordings.
Tips : May want to trim the sound. There's a car rev up that saturates during the middle.
! I struggle to understand which direction the cars are going though the audio. IRL they went frol West to East, so from left to right if the mic is pointing north...Not sure the audio is representing that... !
Attribution is greatly appreciated but not required. Recommendation : X sound by Sadiquecat on Freesound.org in CC0 licence.
Hope you enjoy :)
PS: Id love to hear how you use this sound, feel free to link your creations or share how/why you listen to this :)
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
6:13.307
File size
205.1 MB
Sample rate
48000.0 Hz
Bit depth
24 bit
Channels
4
Comments
1 year, 3 months ago
I'm sorry. I thought it was recording this downmix in stereo. I didn't look at it. Good question about the preview in freesound. Yes. I'm not a specialist in Embisonics (and thank God for that, probably), but I understand well what MS is. I understand that in Ambisonic, it seems like in fact there are several multidirectional MS. By and large, no offense to those who love MS, I don't like the sound of MS, compared to ORTF or AB. I mean listening with headphones on. And those recordings of Ambisonics that I heard were not impressive in any way. They look like MS records. In most cases, figuratively, a stereo picture in MS can be represented something like this: we have three images of an ellipse on the left, in the center and on the right. And these parts seem to be torn from each other (like flaps). There is no integrity, as in ORTF or AB. But then again, there are good records. It seems to me that the impression is very strongly influenced by the kind of sound recording you make. I mean the perspective and width of the image. How are the sounds arranged in this space. Plus, it affects, as I understand it, which microphone records the mid component (directional pattern). Well, in the end, how do you decode your recording in stereo. But the fact that, in general, space in other formats is more realistic is a fact for me. Although someone probably thinks differently. Returning to embisonics, I consider this to be an exclusively marketing phenomenon.
1 year, 3 months ago
Hey, Newlocknew, thanks for sharing, you didn't say anything bad!
It's good to discuss technical issues, and I don't take it personally! Id be happy to know about any technical issues and record clean audio! :)
I will mention, the recording is a 4 channel ambisonic format (Type B I think?), I'm not sure how Freesound preview handles that.
As I understand it, there's no Left and right in the audio itself.
There's a omnidirectional main channel, and then a front/back and a left/right (no up/down here, one channel is silent).
So it's like a two axis MS recording.
I don't know how most audio players handle that, nor Freesound preview.
Have you tried downloading it, and listening to it in a Ambisonic compatible software? If so does the problem persist?
Thanks!
1 year, 3 months ago
I don't want to say anything bad, but I will. In my opinion, in this mode, a hole is formed in the middle of the stereo image. The picture splits into right and left parts, which live separately from each other, and in general the image is greatly distorted. This is very far from how we perceive with our ears. But in general, the recording is interesting in terms of atmosphere.
