How To Be An
Armchair Tourist.
This is one of the most amazing cdroms I've ever heard and it was made using
a unique technology called Binaural Recording.
Why is this cool? It's recorded using microphones mounted in the ear
canals of the person recording the event. The end result is simply the most
life like and realistic recording technique ever. It's Just Like Being
There !!! You can't get any more perfect an audio recording than this.
period....
IT'S REAL LIFE - UNSCRIPTED!
Binaural Recordings are a popular way to drift off to far locations
and add the inner mind creative element of reading a book, as opposed the
brain dead act of watching a video. Binaural producers have created trips
to Europe, Exotic Islands, Remote Locations, Nature, you name it! Imagine
- Listening to the streets of Paris, or New York City,
New Orleans, Spring Break, and on and on!
What Is Binaural Recording? I'm glad you asked ... Binaural recording
is more than standard stereo recording where you would place 2 microphones
in standard locations - one to record LEFT and one to record RIGHT. Binaural
microphones are placed on a form resembling a head, or a real human head
in the case of this recording, in the same area as the human ear. But that's
not all. In order to truly achieve locational 3D sound information,
the microphones must be worn near the ear canal. Your ears are shaped like
they are for a reason - to help us locate the source of sound. Minute echo
location occurs when sound 'bounces' off of the outer ear. Sounds from beneath
us and to the right are reflected differently then, say, sounds that come
from above and left. The physical shape of the ear causes this subtle, yet
critical echo system to provide us with 3D audible clues as to the location
of objects we here. This is one of the reasons humans have survived - they
heard where the predators were and could run the opposite way!
Standard stereo recordings simply cannot reproduce the echo location information
and cannot provide the depth and realism of binaural recording.
Is Binaural some new technology? NO - It's been around since at least
the 1920's when Harvey Fletcher joined the Research Division of Western Electric
Engineering and published his studies on human hearing. And The human body
has been listening binaurally for as long as humans have had ears!
Typical stereo only records left and right. Binaural records left, right,
up, down, front, and back. That's why binaural is so cool! Listen
to this CD and you'll truly believe YOU ARE THERE. There is no other
way to put it. And no other recording technique comes even close!
In order to hear the binaural recording properly you must wear
headphones. Since the sound was recorded at the ear, it must be
played back from the same location. When playing binaural recordings from
speakers you simply cannot achieve 3 dimensional impressions - only left
and right.
What About Surround Sound??? Surround sound doesn't come close - it's
missing the essential microphone positioning that differentiates binaural
recording from anything else. Surround Sound is not natural - it's a subset
of real life audio positioning and, in most cases, is quite exaggerated to
achieve it's effect. Yes, surround sound does sound good - but binaural is
better!
Listen To A Sample - and
be sure to WEAR HEADPHONES !!!!!
Track 1: Announcement 0:34
Track 2: A Binaural Trip To The Mall 48:25
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