MONO vs. STEREO In Field Recording (3 Stereo Techniques Explained)

[@sr3d-microphones]

An excellent demo Jonas, You could add "perspective control" which is simply the volume on playback for binaural headphone listening, here with my HD250s a volume of 20% on my windows Dell laptop sounded to be about the right levels as if I was there with you. The other thing would be, you touched base that the sounds bounce off the pinna before entering the canal, which is correct, the other thing that could also describe it is that with conventional mics, the sound is directly recorded from the diaphragms of the mic capsules, whereas binaural is indirect, or reflected before the sound waves hit the diaphragm, this is ultimately where the binaural tones (or binaural colouration cues) are induced to the sound as it is reflected off various surfaces of the pinna, I understand that the well-read may be confused by that perspective in looking at it, as many institutional books and papers do not describe in detail that particular function, but more of timing differences which, when experimenting, you would find simple stereo micing setups can replicate those timing differences without the "externalised experience" of binaural, as there are no binaural cues (colouration artefacts from the pinna) with standard microphones.

[@JonasFasching]

Great input, thanks a lot! And thanks for watching :)