Hi Gordon...
i've never used the raw B format from the soundfield when I had one.  Try Focker ?

Jim Pollock has circulated hundreds of his B-format recordings.  They're all over archive.org 

Quote from: live2496 on September 10, 2008, 01:38:24 PM

Has anyone got any recordings recorded with a soundfield or the core sound mic?

I am putting together an full-sphere decoding setup and would like to hear them. I would be interested in the raw format (A-format?) or b-format. Thanks!

Gordon

Gordon I'ev got lots of B Format recordings saved....fromt he Soundfield 350.  Let me know what you'd like and I can send it your way.  I have about 15 complete B Format recordings saved....and a shitload of partial recordings.

P.M. me with the names of the bands you have. I would sure like to get some shows in B-format.

As ancient as I am I can remember the grumbling when stereo came in: two of everything.  Granted, stereo was a quantum leap forward.  Most in-home receivers today are set up for 5.1, which means that it should be able to hand AS OK: just feed four channels.  The decoder is the key.  Does not AS offer one?  There has to be some reasonable way to get that sound into four or 5 or 5.1 channels.  Otherwise, as you intimate, what's the point? 

On another board a fellow has said that SF, and I guess AS, make the best Blumlein pairs as the angles are always a perfect 90 degrees.  As an emulation of standard stereo setups it should be great.  I will have enough grief making the Schoeps DMS setup work.

Cheers

I will have enough grief making the Schoeps DMS setup work.

You'll see it's easier than you think. I'm using it with a Behringer LD and two cheap SD cardiods for outside atmospheres and soundscapes and it works nicely.

Ralf

There are numerous B-Format recordings from different Soundfield models and the TetraMic on Ambisonia.
http://www.ambisonia.com/

There's also electronic music mixed with analog and digital B-Format panners/encoders on Ambisonia.

- Daniel

Thanks Daniel. Yes, I am aware of ambisonia. (Actually I have been working with Etienne a bit on a tool for his site.)
That is a good source of samples ready to download in b-format. I was hoping to get some longer shows here and various genres for additional listening at home.

Project Verdi (in german, here's the Google english translation) has some interesting info on comparing multiple surround techniques all simultaneously recorded for orchestra and chorus back in '02.  The download page has AC3 encoded samples of multiple 5.0 techniques as well as a link to the Soundfield B-format (without height) files.  The zipped B-format files required contacting the webmaster for download.

Not B-format, but I've had fun recently playing with 4 channel surround recording and the results are quite promising.  I don't have a 4-track recorder so all recordings are made to two R-09's which actually keep sync amazingly well.  I'm basically adding two additional channels to my primary existing L/R stereo recording so I can always default to stereo. The additional two tracks are either a Ls/Rs pair or a center/back pair. Playback is through the analog inputs to a 7.1 receiver using 4 or 5 of the amplifier channels and good quality but unmatched speakers.  L/R+Ls/Rs playback ignores the center speaker and uses two rear speakers.  The L/R+C/B instead uses the center speaker and a single central rear, or splits the mono rear signal to two rear speakers which used all 5 speakers and produces a more diffuse an enveloping rear.  I'd like to play with decorrelating the the split mono signal between the rears.

The recordings are either 4 omnis (DPA 4060's) spaced in a square for L/R+Ls/Rs, closer spaced baffled omnis for L/R+C/B, or a Blumlein pair for L/R + spaced omnis for LS,Rs.