Dear God, surely notta 'phone wivva Nat, or a mate fer SpotSorryBot?
I may need an Medicinal…
Carinthia.xx
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As close as we’re likely to get, I think. Ambisonic recorder: four microphones in the cage at the top for omnidirectional sound, that can then be virtually re-miked so that you can e.g. pull out just what one person said and not the other stuff near them.
Round here that could be replaced by a flashing light. Time to buy more gin, that’s wot it is.
Well, I could put it on the Slaughterbot to pick up ambient noise while it was cleaning…
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Sleep still absent presumed dead
I was to go to the ward then I was too awkward for the ward so they wanted to send me to another hospital but then the ward took me while I was waiting for ambulance
Then the insultant decreed I need the care of the main hospital so here I am
Wasn’t it McBeth who murdered sleep?
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“Never met her.”
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Macbeth said it was a voice he heard crying “Sleep no more!” He added that it said, “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
(Turns coat inside out, spins on axis three times clockwise, leaves the house and spits over left shoulder. Goldfish dive for cover.)
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They should have dived hereafter.
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Now that the answers been given - details, young Sparrer, details.
Its the new Zoom, I think?
Would be interested to hear how it works in practice - we do a lot of stuff that involves immersive multi-channel audio, so I’ve been looking at ways of documenting the results.
Of course, what I really want is one of these:
…but at over seven grand, it’s not going to happen. The results are impressive though:
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Yup, it’s the Zoom H3-VR. I have two use cases for it:
(1) people sitting round a table talking (when that’s a thing again), where I want a dedicated channel per person that I’ll probably put into a stereo image;
(2) ambient sounds for background to other productions.
It can save into ambisonic A or B, stereo or binaural, but I’ll probably be capturing into A and then furkling it about on a bigger scarier machine.
I know people who have done binaural with a foam head salvaged from a clothes shop…
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Which is actually what I’m in the process of building! Always loved Neumann mics, though (but never been in a position to own one!)
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And I thought that we were doing well having a Techie Nun… 
Carinthia.xx
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That is v interesting. TFD, who is 3/4 deaf, has hearing aids that do the same thing, with quite remarkable success, given the size of the microphones - the entire aid is so small you’d hardly notice it if you weren’t looking for it.
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A sort of black pudding groestl has been consumed here. It hit the spot
Carinthia.xx
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A video for Twellsy. Perhaps it could be worse, you could be marshalling at a rally like this one:
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Gawds, I had to switch the sound off
Carinthia.xx
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I have marshalled corners like that
Great fun
And shows the safety of the cars at preserving the mad eejits inside of them
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What particularly tickled me was the madman rushing to the aid of the crashed drivers with a fag hanging out of his mouth. Possibly not quite the correct procedure.
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I have been that marshal
Petrolheads do strange things around rally cars
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Meh. Some things just aren’t worth interrupting a smoke for.
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Not all cars that crash immediately burst into flames, malgré what the fillums would have you believe.
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True fact about me that you may find hard to believe: I haven’t seen a film since I saw 2001 in 1968. (Probably a coincidence, though if that wasn’t enough to put a person off films for life I don’t know what would be.)
I haven’t seen a TV programme since 1989, so it was a little longer before I gave up on that medium. Never, for a moment, missed either though.
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