Forget surround sound systems!!!

unklerosco

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/Cereni%20-%20Holophonic.mp3

Use a pair of headphones, close ur eyes n listen to this.. Its bloody freaky. How its done is beyond me, beats any surround sound sytem i've heard.. To hear the sound below u is the weirdest bit...

subway

thats cool
hearing it move over your shoulder is freaky.

good find

KTRIC

Oh my god !!!!, This is un-fcuking-real !!!

youcancallmeal

Is this another scream thingy?
Using headphones makes me suspicious....

CyberGhost

wow that was amazing! but I mostly heard it behind and besides me, not infront of me.

No al, no jokes.

cormie

Yeah, I didn't hear it in front of me either. Weird that. I wonder is it possible to hear it in front of you?

The Free Man

i'm really freaked out after that, its amazing.

J2DaC

That is the BEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!

Creamy Goodness

J2DaC wrote:

That is the BEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!

yup definelately another screamy thing.

normally the hints like TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS, THIS IS UNREAL/BEST THING EVER

swing it for me

alantc

Didn't hear it go infront of my head (should I) but very good anyway.

Anima

You can do this with a lot of audio editing programs. Maybe not to the same standard but the basic idea is there.

Endurance Man

Omg, that was insane, it felt like the sound was crawling down my arm at one stage. And then it shoots over your shoulder, fooking hell, i want games to do that :eek: .

AnCapaillMor

V.impressive, would love to play res evil or a game like it with that sound.

BopNiblets

Binaural recording perhaps?

Get a dummy head, put a microphone where the ears are, and record away, whatever you want.
Must try it myself.... meh, maybe later.

Lump

I would imagine it's a combination of Binaural Recording, Phase alteration and Delaying the sound coming from the left and right speaker. All this things will give a crazy stereo spead (almost 360 in some cases) Having a stereo track that's totally out of Phase sounds like it's coming from infront. However if you mono'd that you'd have massive cancellation.

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

John

iregk

That is pure class...

Imagine playing doom3 or something with that on...

Khannie

Absolutely class. Great find rosco. The underneath sound is pretty freaky allright. Sounds like it's coming out of your arse.

WizZard

That's amazing. The sooner we see that in games the better!

kc66

Khannie wrote:

The underneath sound is pretty freaky allright. Sounds like it's coming out of your arse.

LOL

Will have to bring it home cos no speakers in work:(

dent

Brilliant, really nice find. Would be cool for movies and the like.

The Free Man

Cremo wrote:

yup definelately another screamy thing.

normally the hints like TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS, THIS IS UNREAL/BEST THING EVER

swing it for me

youre too paranoid man...

HungryJoey

Just put this on me' MP3 Player, Have to show the lads this one tomorrow.

Hj

Hagar

When I were a lad we didn't have any fancy MP3 players or nowt like that. We used to just put pins in a matchbox and shake it for amusement.
You young folk wouldn't know how to to enjoy that, would you?

**Timbuk2**

That is the best thing ever

I listened to it first on my surround sound (5.1) speakers and it didn't sound so good as it was only coming from the front speakers the "behind" sound didn't sound like it was behind at all, but then a listened to it on my headphones and wow

I love it... THAT IS CLASS :D

cython

Gah! There's someone behind me!

Seriously though, that is amazing out of a pair of headphones. The door noise behind me would have freaked the hell out of me only for the fact that I could see the only door in the room!

cormie

Where can we get more samples like that

tba

cython wrote:

The door noise behind me would have freaked the hell out of me only for the fact that I could see the only door in the room!

or could you?!?!!!

jozi

Pretty cool.

I understand what they mean with surround sound from stereo speakers now

The Free Man

found loadsa samples of binaural recordings, i gave a few a listen.
some are great, some arent so great, and most are just plain weird
http://www.cmorrow.com/cma/audiosamples/#

DonkeyStyle \o/

tbh my old soundcard with A3D used to do stuff like that out of 2 speakers... impressive stuff... although I've got proper 5.1 now days \o/

Irishpimpdude

Haha try listening to that in a dark room.. i was looking behind me and all !

DonkeyRhubarb

OH
MAN
I
DONT
KNOW
WHAT
TO
SAY
!!!!!

Ive taken a huge interest in binaural sound now, never knew it could be this effective. Theres gonna be money involved somewhere! I can smell it!

BopNiblets

I guessed it was binaural... you could give some money to me?

Lump

DonkeyRhubarb wrote:

OH
MAN
I
DONT
KNOW
WHAT
TO
SAY
!!!!!

Ive taken a huge interest in binaural sound now, never knew it could be this effective. Theres gonna be money involved somewhere! I can smell it!

It's not only that in use. Look at my previous post.

John

CuLT

Awesomes.

That was entertaining.

Hagar

Reverse your headphones. The sound then goes around the front. Or at least it seems that way to me.

DonkeyRhubarb

Hagar wrote:

Reverse your headphones. The sound then goes around the front. Or at least it seems that way to me.

Nope, still around the back.

Ferror

Very very freaky, thought that someone was climbing over my head at one point!

Excellent for games alright, or horror movies even! :eek:

JackKelly

I heard it go around the front around the back, and then down my arms. Freaxy stuff. Check out the website. They have some more exampler, althought not as good. They also have the same clip in mono and stereo.

Smellyirishman

It WOULD be really cool for games , movies etc.... if you didn't have to close your eyes .

Very good find.

stevenmu

Hagar wrote:

Reverse your headphones. The sound then goes around the front. Or at least it seems that way to me.

Part of it should sound like it's in front of you anyway.


I played it first through a set of 7.1 speakers using creative's cmss to upmix it, and it was really good like that, better than most genuine surround. Then I tried it with just a cheap set of headphones and it was even better, I couldn't believe it.