Digging up an old thread, because I've found a huge resource of binaural recordings.

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=225523

Some are really great.

These, in particular, are pretty nice.

http://www.terzoorecchio.com/mp3.html

An LP wrapped up in some paper towels works well in a pinch. Not in a pinch, too.

I do a fair bit of field recording using binaural mics - I've used these little fellers for about four years now and they work like champs. I think the capsules are made by Sennheiser. You wear them like little earbud headphones and they give a really convincing spatial impression.

http://www.soundman.de/

cjh wrote:I do a fair bit of field recording using binaural mics - I've used these little fellers for about four years now and they work like champs. I think the capsules are made by Sennheiser. You wear them like little earbud headphones and they give a really convincing spatial impression.

http://www.soundman.de/

i now have the image in my mind of you walking around Brum with a dummy head on top of your actual head.

that'd be plenty funky...

cjh wrote:I do a fair bit of field recording using binaural mics - I've used these little fellers for about four years now and they work like champs. I think the capsules are made by Sennheiser. You wear them like little earbud headphones and they give a really convincing spatial impression.

http://www.soundman.de/

I record all my field pieces with these because I wanted to emulate all the Aachen Head recordings I had heard as a kid.

hollis wrote:The recording process of the last two Talk Talk records is quite well documented by interviews with Tim Friese-Green and Phill Brown. It just takes a google or 2. This is generally not the case, but you sometimes find things in Mix or Studio Sound

Several of the Phill Brown articles and interviews are at ProsoundWeb:

http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording/ta ... 12_1.shtml

I made a dummy head a few weeks ago. I used these tiny mics from naiant.

Here are some clips These are all done in a room that is approx 12 feet square with about an a 9 foot ceiling (our living room/practice space):

Drums: about 5 feet in front of the kit, sort of off to the right of the kick, 7 or 8 feet up. Bass guitar bleed is bleed from the next room

Acoustic guitar: dummy at head-level, guitar player walking around room.

3 piece band: dummy at head-level, off to right hand (bass player) side, facing drummer.

Vocal: head-level, vocalist walking around dummy.

Electric guitar: 7 feet back and 7 to 8 feet up, guitar is a jaguar thru a super reverb, but the super is feeding two cabs instead of the normal 4=10 speaker arangement. Cabs are both open backed, one is a 4x12 and the other is a 2x12, cabs are about 10 feet apart. I think you can hear the guitar player's pick hitting the strings too, he's standing to the right of the dummy.

The head is Styrofoam covered in rubber. It has hair (we gave it a stupid haircut). The mics were cheap (only $25 each). Preamps used are boring crap (either built in to my tascam interface or a little mackie mixer).


And that's about it. It was weird drilling holes into the mannequin's head I guess.

This Heat used one for a bunch of stuff. I think the 'Metal' track on Repeat was all done with one, and is supposed to be amazing on headphones, although I've never tried it. It was also used for a Psychic TV record, or records, but I don't know the titles.