Moonlight Beethoven in Binaural (USE HEADPHONES)

[chocolatedesign]

Excelent, great sound and video quality, the best of this place.

[BMassey1987]

oh, ciao! didnt hear you come in. Greetings and welcome to 'ask that guy with the glasses'

"what are binaural audio recordings?"

That's a very good question. they are the bi-product of bose tinkering around with various headphone applications, hours of manual labor, and a deal with the dark lord himself, satan.

Now i know what you're thinking: "but in what way does this have to do with the video?"

Absolutely nothing. With onions.

[DoomsDaysLIVE]

O.0

[ProdavackaDivu]

BRAVO!

[FollowersofDamu]

Moonlight Sonata, fuck yeah bitches!

[Smubbs]

yeah too bad the sound is from the camera and not the mics

[ThatHauntFreak2]

She plays beautifully

[Balgangsak]

Why is no one clapping?

[edgrrr101]

@Balgangsak They're too busy coughing and rustling. I'm surprised no body had popcorn.

[oelung]

@Balgangsak lol good question

[whylus]

@Balgangsak You don't clap between movements of any piece of classical music, and this is just the first movement.

[Balgangsak]

@whylus I see, thanks for the explanation.

[freeztme]

headphone no used here.. too many noise

[lapmarty]

tempi is to fast for my liking

but interesting recording

[ru2holmes]

she is hot

[smudger671]

Nice and natural, but a little over distant sounding for my taste.

[Gonnakillyou]

@smudger671 Well she is somewhat distant though.

[VideoMadnezz]

What kind of microphones (Brand/type) are used here? And what setup did you use to record binaural?

[Martins2012]

@VideoMadnezz I used Roland CS-10EM.

[VideoMadnezz]

@Martins2012 Thanks for your reply. Last week I bought a display head (good dummy since it got covered with latex, not a hard surface). I also bought 2 separate electret microphones each with a separate Pre-Amp to power them (can also be used without the pre-amp). Do you think it's important to actual put the microphones inside the head? At this moment i just attached them on the outside (the head has no external ears as well, should i get 2 ears on it for a more accurate sound capture?

[Martins2012]

@VideoMadnezz absolutelly. The ear is acounts for about 50% of direction and locatiom perception. Very important!!! U could place the mics right on the entrace of sound in the ear. Not inside because the headphones wont go inside the ears either. (where u capture the sound is where you release the sound, the headphones can only release the sound in the ears so thats where you capture and placw the mics. Send me your recordings.

[VideoMadnezz]

@Martins2012 I made a website for my recordings, visit "worldwidebinaural dot bandcamp dot com"

[MrJdsenior]

@VideoMadnezz

Very cool post here, uploader. If you really want to do it to the nth degree, you might consider making a copy of your penta (outer ear) and record some things then. I’m guessing vertical location will improve, maybe even dramatically, since it will be mapped directly to your anatomy, and the penta determine vertical location using some filtering that’s mapped specifically to your brain. It's not really that difficult.

[MrJdsenior]

@VideoMadnezz

Also, it would be interesting to see the difference between using an ear bud vs. headphones to listen. I’m betting the ear bud would be better since the penta is not involved twice in the listening. I believe this is one of the main things that make stereo recordings played back through speakers so lousy at reproducing sound stage location, the mix occurs once to the microphones (even so-called uni-directional microphones) and again to your ears

[MrJdsenior]

@VideoMadnezz

This is why binaural works so well and mixing down as opposed to using 2 mikes, and any post mixing makes it totally artificial and just plain wrong for location of sound (irks me). Some of the older Vangard (as well as other recording/distribution lables) recorded with two microphones and no mixing and are noticeably better, but certainly not binaural. I’ve also used some 4 mike placements to make 4 channel recordings in the past with homemade capacitor mikes set up to

[MrJdsenior]

@VideoMadnezz

match the speaker geometry and angular positioning, and this did a lot to open up the sound, about like mono to stereo again in the fore/aft direction. If you want me to set up a temporary email account so that we can get together email wise (or even phone wise, if you wish) without getting inundated with every other person reading this, or maybe to get some others involved as well in a net discussion group as I suspect there might be some genuine interest here as well,

[MrJdsenior]

@VideoMadnezz

or both use some active currently active web discussion group for communication, let me know (applies to others on this discussion as well) ;-). I can get access to some really first class time corrected (z transform) $2000 microphones that could be temporarily used in such a head, and would be interested in helping with the design and operation of a head that could be easily modified to allow testing with different microphones and different penta

[MrJdsenior]

@VideoMadnezz

as I am an degreed engineer with definite interest. I would bet that musicians on the web would be interested in doing some recordings with such a device just to have some demos to provide to the public or sell. Sorry for the exceedingly long post, hope it’s not irritating to others here, and if so, I apologize. Any one else here interested in this idea reply as well.

[wholelotofleavin]

Nice work...was this recorded with 2 microphones??

[Martins2012]

@wholelotofleavin Itwas recorded using binaural technique. However, I set the volume too low. Next time I will get it right....

[xinaesthetic]

@Martins2012 recording at 24bit and leaving plenty of headroom then normalising in post is a good strategy IMO.

[Martins2012]

@xinaesthetic Oh boy, there is none editing on this. Strait out of the camera.

[xinaesthetic]

@Martins2012 :) fair enough. For best results, some minor editing can help ;).

Bear in mind it is more of a mistake to record too loud than too quiet generally.

Actually, binaurals probably aren't really the right tool for a job in this situation; conventionally you really want to get close if possible and use more directional microphones. Although binaurals record something similar to what we hear, in practice our perception is always different hearing a recording vs being there.

[evlampi666]

Great quality, nice play)

@xinaesthetic

Sounds like you know a better way of "being_there"-type recording.

[xinaesthetic]

@evlampi666 not really, I just guess that if some people criticised the recording as mentioned here @ is(dot)gd/hi1PXB then perhaps it's because they want a more conventional 'recording of the piano' rather than a 'being there' recording. I love binaural recordings, which is why I found the link through that review - I'm thinking about buying these mics.