Archive for category: Audio

A couple of interesting links for materials on librivox.org

October 13, 2011 | Audio, Audioblogs, Audioblogs and Podcasting | By: Mark VandeWettering

I really like librivox.org. For those of you who may not have heard of it before, it’s an effort to take works in the public domain and record them as mp3 and ogg files for anyone to download. It’s an awesome resource: I’ve listened to many of their recordings, and while the quality can be […]

Ambisonic Microphone Exp2 Construction

September 23, 2010 | Audio, diy, Music | By: Mark VandeWettering

Here’s one for Tom, or anyone else interested in doing ambisonic sound recordings. It mounts four inexpensive Panasonic electret microphones into a tetrahedral array to record sound that can later be processed for surround or other spatialization effects. Seems pretty cool, and they even include the patterns for PCBs that can be cheaply manufactured by […]