Probably 10 to 15 years ago I started truly researching Binaural audio and discovered that before in-ear microphones were regularly available binaural was captured from a dummy head.

On the other end, and this is a bit wild, we really haven’t heard ourselves from someone elses prospective, in less, we have a friend or family member waring the in-ear microphones, and then you hear them breathing and the other things I mentioned above. If you turn your head the audio spins, if you breathe and a semi quiet recording, you hear it back strongly on the recording, when you talk your voice is muffled. In real life, in real time I believe our brains acomidate for these things, but when we’re listening back to a recording they are noticeable.

I didn’t realize many of these things until I started recording with the use of the Binaural in-ear technique. Remember that audio recorded in Binaural is a very life like audio capture. Why a dummy head instead of you just waring the mics? On top of all of this if the condissions are right you can hear a source positioned behind the warer of the microphones. You can also hear if the source being recorded is above or below the warer of the microphones. You can hear the smallest of movements, the immage is also much wider, more spacial. Not only do you hear stereo, what is to the left or right, but much more defined than standard stereo recording. To me, Binaural recording is the most realistic method of capturing audio, the way the human ears hear it.

From that moment I was fasinated and had to get my hands on a pare of in-ear Binaural mics. I first heard a Binaural recording on a BCT podcast created by Neal Ewers back in 2007. All links to purchase peaces for this project are at the bottom of this post.

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