On 02/26/2010 05:20 AM, Ken Restivo wrote: > Way off-topic, but in 1992 Frank Zappa with Ensemble Moderne > delivered a series of concerts in some of the finest concert halls in > Europe, mixed live in 6-channel surround. I cannot imagine what that > would have sounded like, other than incredible. as much as i love the yellow shark music and fz in general, i think their approach to surround was a little hare-brained... iirc, they had a "hoop" of six microphones which could be put over a musician to feature him/her as a soloist, and each of the mikes would be panned to a speaker tower. the rest of the music was panned pair-wise. > Zappa was a huge audio engineering nerd. he was, but he could have used an ambisonics guru - i wonder how he and MAG would have hit it off... :-] i got to know the stage manager that did the yellow shark tour a couple of weeks ago, let's see if i can reach him and get some more details... best, jörn _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
