What Is A Binaural Microphone?
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
- Have you ever wanted to record immersive audio that makes the listener feel like they are actually there with you? I show how to build a binaural microphone using inexpensive parts. I also show how to install acoustic foam to help reduce the amount of external noise, reverb, and echo in your recording environment.
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My original flat panel speaker video: • How To Build "The Worl...
In-depth guide to building binaural microphone: • How to make a Binaural...
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0:00 Introduction
0:31 Background Info
1:23 What's A Binaural Microphone?
2:58 How I Built The Mic
4:39 Acoustic Foam Panels Introduction
5:58 How To Install Acoustic Foam
8:23 Foam Placement Tips
10:25 Before and After Testing
11:52 Conclusion
12:17 Bloopers
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Steve Earwin is a good listener.
You could just use plastiline that's how i do when i go to an hotel and need to record something
You mean plastiline modeling clay? Yes, I suspect that would work really well. Great tip!
That binaural mic is awesome. Oh with headphones on you could hear a door close at about four minutes - sounded exactly like somebody shut my patio door into my house. it freaked me out - like an invader just entered into my house, and I knew my doors were locked. And then rewound the video and noticed it was in there and not in my house. Awesome.
There is a company that makes microphones that you actually wear inside your own ears. I record the audio in 24-bit/192khz. When I listen back using ear buds, it's incredibly realistic. Great for recording concerts.
I always wondered how recordings were done to make the sound move with the subject. That's interesting to know! Thanks.
I’m excited about the testing video
I’m excited to get it published. Hopefully this week sometime!
If you really want to optimize the Binaural Microphone you should try to mount the "ears" on an object that has approximately the circumference of a human head, Sound waves travel around the surface of your head and there is a little bit of out of phase cancelation stuff going on that helps you localize the sound. I was messing around with this in the early 1980s in art school and haven't done anything with it since so I've forgotten the details but if you look up head transfer function you should be on the right track.
You can pick up inexpensive Styrofoam dummy-heads at beauty supply stores. (People use them to store and to style wigs.) I used to record Grateful Dead shows with microphones are stuck in these.
Binaural is awesome! Disney’s Florida MGM studio used to have an exhibit where you wore headphones and listened to a short Mickey Mouse story. My kids and I would listen to it over and over again!
thanks for sharing...
You teach me something I've NEVER heard before. And what is more surprising, is that I learned it from a DIY channel 🖤
Wow, thank you!
You should give Rockwool a try. It is much more effective than the black foam, but requires more work to build covers of burlap or some other acoustical neutral covering to ensure little fingers can poke it and pull it and such.
Hey Walt - I've heard good things about Rockwool. Certainly if I was setting up something permanent I'd look into using it. Thanks for watching!
I live in a mobile home with very thin walls. The head of my bed is against a wall that has my kid's TV on the other side of it. Would these acoustic foam panels do anything to quiet my room if I put them on the wall in the kid's room behind the television, or since they absorb sound, would they make it worse?
Hey Bradley! Yes, placing them behind the TV will help some. It won’t completely eliminate the sound of the TV, but it will help. You may want to try some larger panels of acoustic insulation from Lowe’s or Home Depot, though. It’s likely a better, more effective solution for your situation. Good luck!
@@AmplifyDIY Thank you for replying. I'll look into that.
Friend, as it's thin walls, it won't make good to put absorbers in the wall or on your kid's room. It's best to put a REFLECTIVE material, it'll block the sound going to your bedroom and as it reflects the sound, you can turn DOWN the volume of the TV, so your kid will listen at the same perceived sound, but at lower REAL sound volume/amplitude. Put a wood panel, plywood, marine plywood, etc... (more dense the better, to reflect and block). The ABSORBER material you have to put in YOUR bedroom 👍