Not technically music kit, but I now need everything Norsonic makes.
A footfall-simulating tapping machine:
Dodecahedron loudspeaker with omnidirectional characteristics:
A beamforming acoustic camera array?!
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Can you please explain why this is so exciting? I mean I kind of get the idea behind them… but would you please be so kind as to provide some examples of what you would do with any of these pieces?
Well, acoustic cameras are really amazing. It’s both an optical camera combined with a microphone array, that records and then analyzes the sounds and where they are coming from. This can also be done in 3-D.
What might be especially interesting to people in this forum, is you can go back and acoustically isolate sound from areas in the recording, by pointing to the area you’d like to listen to. ( See 2:12 in the video below. )
You can also isolate sound by frequency and see where it is coming from.
Also interesting are the high speed images showing the reflections of echoes, bouncing around.
Stop this video at 10 minutes, an ad starts at that point.
Seems to me this might be very useful for audio post production, for regular recording, and certainly also for movies where you could move a “microphone” around a shot and change the mix.
A different way to think about “granular” sound.