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You set up a lot of speakers and a decent computer. Two decent computers if your room isn't ideal. >Music Research Centre's Arthur Sykes Rymer Auditorium is eq

You set up a lot of speakers and a decent computer. Two decent computers if your room isn't ideal. >Music Research Centre's Arthur Sykes Rymer Auditorium is equiped with a sixteen speaker Ambisonic rig. This rig cosists of four high speakers, eight horizontal speakers and four speakers below the audience in the air conditioning plenum duct, which was designed to allow for this. The rig is driven by a Firewire audio interface (Focusrite Saffire Pro) which can be accessed from computers positioned in the performance area via Firewire. This rig can do up to third order horizontal with first order height. https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambisyrk.htm https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambisyrk.htm Here's some more York uni ambisonics stuff - https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambis2.htm https://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/ambis2.htm

erikschoster 8y ago
The minimum number of speakers for a horizontal ambisonic setup is 4 but you need at least 6 to localize sound in a full sphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic_reproduction_systems#Horizontal_vs._full-sphere_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonic_reproduction_systems... I'm not sure if massive speaker array systems like BEAST (http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/about/ http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/about/) use ambisonic diffusion techniques, I think part of the appeal of ambisonics is the relatively small number of speakers you need for full sphere spatialization. (It's also interesting to see this subject pop up here. Maybe because Zoom is offering a consumer option now? I've heard good things about the octomic: http://www.core-sound.com/OctoMic/1.php http://www.core-sound.com/OctoMic/1.php )