now there is plenty of audio file grade sound equipment out there that promises
a super realistic experience but let's
face it it is pretty darn hard to fool
your ears into thinking that you're listening to something live as opposed
to a recording or a stream even if you did blow your life savings on some
amazing headphones or speakers but believe it or not there's actually a
relatively old and fairly straightforward technology that can
surpass even the most ridiculous surround sound speaker setups in terms
of spatial realism I'm talking of course about Bal recording but what is that and
how does it fool our brains into thinking we are right in the middle of a
scene well it helps to keep in mind exactly how your ears work when you hear
any kind of sound let's say it's your pet doing its best Yan cat impression
from down the hall the sound waves are going to arrive at your ears at slightly
different times and they'll also be slightly louder in one ear than the
other your brain takes these minute differences and processes them to figure
out exactly where the noise is coming from Boral audio takes advantage of this
fact by recording an audio track in the first place in a way that mimics our
natural hearing the idea itself is actually very simple to create a BAL
recording two High Fidelity microphones are placed about roughly the same
distance apart as your ears from each other some recording studios even embed
the mics inside of a dummy human head complete with realistic ears to get an
even more accurate sound Imaging and bippity boity the result is an amazingly
accurate reproduction of Ambient sound that fools your brain into thinking the
noises are really happening around you and since the concept behind banaro
recording is so simple it was thought of long before the Advent of modern digital
audio in fact it was first introduced for telephone phones all the way back in
the 1880s but didn't become more common
until fairly recently thanks to the falling prices of both recording
equipment and headphones yes headphones only you
cannot use this on your freestanding speakers because of the way the
recordings are made remember the microphones are placed right where your
ears would be the effect is nearly impossible to duplicate on regular
speakers but the good news is that you at least don't need Super high-end
headphones powered by some exotic tube amplifier to enjoy the effect a cheap
pair of earbuds will actually do the trick just nicely well that's all fine
and well Linus then but so where can I hear this Bal stuff I mean I don't
really see a whole lot of it on Spotify although it is still pretty hard to find
in music and movies various producers and musicians have been experimenting
with it and a large community has popped up on YouTube around banaro recordings
featuring everything from music to walking tours of New York City to
Virtual Barber shops that are actually kind of creepy it's a very weird
experience but if you're not into random novelty YouTube videos I totally get
that and if you're waiting for banaro audio being part of your everyday
listening experience if you're a gamer you'll be pleased to know that the
future looks very bright because virtual reality game developers are seriously
pursuing the use of Bal sound in headsets such as the Oculus Rift and
Sony's Project Morpheus except instead
of just using two microphones VR developers are experimenting with rings
of microphones on dummy heads to create a true
360° binural sound experience that is
preserved no matter which way you turn wearing your head-mounted display and as
virtual reality technology continues to mature game Publishers will seek more
and more interesting ways to achieve full immersion in 3D sound and our ears
may be in for just as much of a treat as our eyes you know what's a word for
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