Topic: SoundField SPS200

[Scooter]

Looks like MBHO capsules?

def look like mbho's to me...  or at least the capsule and the body housings do.

[Colin Liston]

I just want to know who does the foam cut outs for the pelican case.  I need that guy.

[jimmyrow]

LV Pro Audio confirms that this will be shipping from England in about 6-8 weeks.    They do not have a price for it yet, though, but will have it up as soon as it is available.

[bhadella]

As for price, I think I remember the Soundfield guy telling me it would list around $6K

  I think I'll go back to offering Jimbo money and sex with my wife for his ST250.

does that mean we will actually hear jimbo's rig go for it...

But.....what Jimbo lacks in transfers/seeds he makes up with fatty extra tickets for upcoming shows!   

[halleyscomet8]

As for price, I think I remember the Soundfield guy telling me it would list around $6K

  I think I'll go back to offering Jimbo money and sex with my wife for his ST250.

does that mean we will actually hear jimbo's rig go for it...

But.....what Jimbo lacks in transfers/seeds he makes up with fatty extra tickets for upcoming shows!   

yes he does

[F.O.Bean]

Looks interesting as usual w/ SoundField

Does look a bit too fragile to me tho! And how can one accomplish MS and any other config/pattern when each capsule points in a diff direction and on diff horizontal angles/tilts

[boojum]

Looks interesting as usual w/ SoundField

Does look a bit too fragile to me tho! And how can one accomplish MS and any other config/pattern when each capsule points in a diff direction and on diff horizontal angles/tilts

Bean, it is all in the math.   

[dancesonrocks]

yep,
its all in the math.  this configuration can reproduce
pretty much any mic configuration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambisonics


I use Plogue Bidule for ambisonic processing
using the plug-ins from Daniel Courville

http://www.radio.uqam.ca/ambisonic/

[F0CKER]

I'd already inquired about it and may change over at some point.  I love the fact you can power it with any 48V preamp...just to hear the results mixing up pres.  I do love my 350...when it works.

$2500 was the ballpark price I'd heard.  It's long overdue for release though.

[F.O.Bean]

I'd already inquired about it and may change over at some point.  I love the fact you can power it with any 48V preamp...just to hear the results mixing up pres.  I do love my 350...when it works.

$2500 was the ballpark price I'd heard.  It's long overdue for release though.

Just $2,500.00 I bet its damn near DOUBLE that when its actually released to the public. I mean, there are 4 capsules, and  all. Although, you may be right, because you dont need the power supply like you do w/ the ST250 and the ST350. That is BADASS that you can power it w/ ANY +48v phantom source Maybe because this one doesnt require a power supply, it will be at a cost around what FOCKER stated. I bet you'd see alot more of these in the field in the future since theyre +48v phantom powered, and have the ability to do surround recordings, and MS and pretty much any pattern/config possible, right folks? If so, that is one AMAZING idea for a microphone. I just hope that its sturdier than it looks in the one picture of it!

Its ALL IN THE MATH, right?

[boojum]

I would love to see how this compares to the Schoeps 2MS setup which can do 2, 3, 4 or 5 channels out of their software decoder from three (2 Mk4 and 1 Mk8) feeds.  Anyway, the SF250 sure is interesting.  I am eager to see how it performs.

[Kewl]

Looks like the Tetra mic does it not?

It may look like it, but I guarantee you this one actually works and is 1000X better. Len's shit is just that...shit.

Yikes... I don't know what kind of experience you have with Len's shit, but the TetraMic does work. Some samples are available at http://www.ambisonia.com. There's also a detailed account of using the TetraMic here http://ambisonic.info/tetramic.html.

- Daniel

[J.T.L]

Looks like the Tetra mic does it not?

It may look like it, but I guarantee you this one actually works and is 1000X better. Len's shit is just that...shit.

Yikes... I don't know what kind of experience you have with Len's shit, but the TetraMic does work. Some samples are available at http://www.ambisonia.com. There's also a detailed account of using the TetraMic here http://ambisonic.info/tetramic.html.

- Daniel

That maybe, but enough experience has been gained by many others to know to stick with another company. Anyways, there has been questions and threads started asking Len to go more in-depth about the T-Mic that went unanswered. His own thread on his mic stays locked so moving on to the Soundfield...'nuf said.

[Kewl]

OK, I didn't know about Len's reputation and I never bought anything from him... I was on the TetraMic software dev team for about, like, 15 minutes and my email exchanges with him were always cordial and professional. So there you go...

At least, the TetraMic forced SoundField to take a pause and think about making their own incarnation of a tetrahedral mic where the A-Format to B-Format conversion is done digitally within the computer. Although the real inspiration for that A to B digital conversion was the AGM MR-1 in 1992 http://www.agmdigital.com/page2/files/77a5535ce4bacf67c382b03168ce73c3-4.html.



- Daniel

[J.T.L]

B&K 4011's for caps! That thing looks yummy...