Topic: binaural recording with canine dummy head

[weroflu]

in light of the fact that dogs are known to have better hearing than us, would it not make sense to cast a dummy head and ears in the shape of your favorite canine?

[Gutbucket]

Possibly for quality AUD recordings of Dr. Dog, but not if your pooch only listens to poorly produced, clip-limited itune downloads via earbuds. The canine music audiophile is rarer than the endangered old white guy type. 

Fido don't file share.

[aaronji]

^^^ I don't know about that; I used to have a dog that loved music...She was particularly fond of "Seamus"...

[illconditioned]

I put microphones on my dog collar.  Does that count?  What did I get?  Well, a lot of scratching, moaning, groaning, sighing, etc.  Better to put the mics, spaced omnis, on either side of the entrance to his crate.  Or wear mics (binaural) and get up close to the dog.

  Richard

[Gutbucket]

My neighbor once wanted to attach a tiny video cam to my cat to record her jungle roamings, but she prefers straight AUD audio and provides excellent, if non-verbal critiqe feedback to me on the ambient 'realism' of my better recordings.

..She was particularly fond of "Seamus"...

Moore or Floyd?

[thunderbolt]

I used to record binaural with my Sonic Studios using a Nerf football.  I mounted it vertically, stuck a straightened coat hanger through the middle, and mounted the mics on each end.  A lot cheaper than a purpose-built dummy head and it worked pretty well.

[Church-Audio]

I put microphones on my dog collar.  Does that count?  What did I get?  Well, a lot of scratching, moaning, groaning, sighing, etc.  Better to put the mics, spaced omnis, on either side of the entrance to his crate.  Or wear mics (binaural) and get up close to the dog.

  Richard

Um you wear a dog collar? 

[aaronji]

..She was particularly fond of "Seamus"...

Moore or Floyd?

Floyd...She would sit between the speakers, ears pricked up, head cocked to one side, sometimes joining in on the howls...Pretty fond of the whale-song in "Echoes" too!

She was sort of a jazz-head, as well.  Particularly stuff from the hard-bop era...

[Seth01]

This thread is all kinds of entertaining!

[SmokinJoe]

Going back to the original question... I expect a dog's hearing comes from the inner ear/nerves, etc.  We have 2 dogs... a toy fox terrier with pointy ears that move around like a radar... and a lab with floppy ears that just hang, and probably cover his ear canal most of the time.  The second one seems to hear as well as the first one.

I've contemplated making a human dummy head, maybe just a nurf ball.  The main reason I don't is because I don't want to spend all night explaining to people what it is.  I think a dog head would require even more explaining.

[rhinowing]

My neighbor once wanted to attach a tiny video cam to my cat to record her jungle roamings, but she prefers straight AUD audio and provides excellent, if non-verbal critiqe feedback to me on the ambient 'realism' of my better recordings.

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[Gutbucket]

photographercat.com

Ground seems fertile for someone to raise the bar with a POV binaural audio / 3D video rig returning footage of battles with rodents and birds in slow motion HD playback. 

Would require cat-eye 3D glasses of course-