Am 21.09.22 um 15:35 schrieb Fons Adriaensen:
If the room is big enough, you could use a larger distance.
This will reduce the amplitude of the the impulse but not
the room response, so you could have a better S/N ratio.
Good hint! I always thought it was necessary to place the impulse source
as close as possible to the microphone.
There is NT1 preset available for tetraproc (real-time A/B processor,
Jack)
and tetrafile (file processor doing the same). I can send it if you want.
Yes! I really missed using the commandline for A-/B-convertion. I'd
really appreciate that!
The method of choice today is not to use balloons or pistols, but
a logarithmic sweep signal and deconvolution with the inverse sweep.
This will give you
1. A more correct result, since the spectrum of the test signal is
exactly known (apart from the speaker used to play it),
2. A much better S/N ratio since the test signal can be several
seconds long so it has much more energy at the same amplitude as a
popping balloon.
I know this procedure from speaker development. But I wonder which tool
is used to do the deconvolution in this scenario. What do you use?
The downside is that a good speaker with a wide frequency range is
certainly much heavier and bigger than my package of paper bags. :D (Let
alone the fact that amplification and signal generation could afford two
additional devices - and an additional power source.) I already thought
in the same direction, but I dropped it in favor of mobility.
Although, I already realised, that my paper bag impulse is not the best
option for audio quality and partly needs heavy postprocessing…
But I managed to accelerate finding the correct equalization setup, at
least:
Using the right head-/tailcut parameter, it's possible to isolate just
the impulse in the "LSP IR Mono" plugin. Stimulated by a pink noise
signal one can spectrum analyse the output and find out which
frequencies are underrepresented in the impulse. With IEMs "MultiEQ" one
can fill the gaps. Still - as long as you're trying to combine an
ambisonics recording with an afterwords integrated mono signal, f.e. -
it's necessary to use hearing and comparing with original recordings.
Altogether, a not-so easy and quick task. Besides the fact, that heavy
equalizing won't improve S/N ratio, at all.
Greets!
Mitsch
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