Holophone For Auditory Perspective Natural 6.1 Discrete Recording/Playback

A new microphone, called the ""Holophone,"" has been developed and built by Mike Godfrey, a recording engineer and inventor in Toronto, Canada. The microphone utilizes seven omni capsules made by Sennheiser for the companyís MK2E Lavalier Series. The capsules are arrayed in the surface of a black plastic ellipsoid ""dummy head"" structure to yield Left, Center, Right, Left Rear, Right Rear, Overhead and Low Frequency in a ""semi-coincident"" array.The design was developed to capture full motion natural auditory perspectives using simple point-and-shoot techniques. When used to capture video or film sound, the results are reported to produce an utterly natural surround auditory perspective with natural openness and sense of space. Users say that the reason it works is that the surround channels give enough extra information across the bandwidth to really fill out the auditory perspective that our hearing uses to localize in reverberant spaces. The seven capsules of the Holophone capture natural sound in a way that overcomes the obvious interference effects and ambiguities encountered in stereo and mono. Intended uses for the Holophone include location work, ENG, live broadcast and other situations in which a strong sense of ""placeí is important and/or useful. Using the Holophone to capture dialogue in real filming environments could drive down the amount of ""unnatural"" ADR (automated dialogue replacement) called for in such productions. Reportedly both Sony and Dolby are working on a surround headphone to monitor the signal from the Holophone in the field while recording. And both Sony and Sennheiser are planning are marketing the Holophone soon. For more information on the 6.1 discrete channel Holophone, contact Mike Godfrey, Rising Sun Productions, Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 416 504 5953.