{"id":9354,"date":"2021-04-22T16:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathis-nitschke.com\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2022-01-11T22:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:11:23","slug":"the-wearable-spatial-microphone-sonic-presence-sp15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathis-nitschke.com\/en\/the-wearable-spatial-microphone-sonic-presence-sp15\/","title":{"rendered":"The wearable spatial microphone Sonic Presence SP15"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sonic Presence SP15<\/a> microphone is worn on the ear quasi like a hearing aid and is connected directly to the smartphone or computer via USB. The arrangement acts much like an artificial head: all the functions of natural hearing and its fantastic ability to localise sounds in 360 degrees are embedded in the recordings made with it. The resulting file is incredibly realistic; it’s as if you were there!<\/em><\/p>\n

At least that’s how Sonic Presence<\/a> advertises its product, founded by Russ Hamm, a veteran of the New York pro audio scene and extremely well connected. After delivery problems from New York to Munich, audio legend Daniel Weiss of Weiss Engineering<\/a> himself helped out with a copy from Zurich, which was an extremely great honour for me.<\/p>\n

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With the Fieldrecorder<\/a> app for Android, for example, the complete recording setup looks like this. A setup – and this is the important thing – that you always<\/strong> have with you.<\/p>\n

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The capsules are not placed inside the auricle, as is the case with the artificial head or the common binaural setups<\/a> with e.g. dpa mini capsules, but the capsule is worn in front of the ear (see article photo). This means that the sound is not filtered by the auricle, which may or may not reduce the spatial representation somewhat, but makes the frequency response suitable for loudspeaker reproduction. In the first example, listen to how the capsules sound inside the pinna, in the second example, how they sound in front of the ear.<\/p>\n

Please listen to all examples and videos with headphones. Although the recordings are not broken if you listen to them through loudspeakers, the spatial effect can only be heard in all its glory through headphones.<\/p>\n

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