spatial & more

[tester]

As I said I did some experiments with in-ear binaural mics, and:

1) the spectral difference between my recordings and the "matchbox reference" is, that my recording use wide range of spectra to cover vertical axis of location, while matchobx seem to use only narrow and defined range of high spectra.
2) because my recordings were made with my ears - both recordings (my and matchbox) - sound in the same way to me in terms of spatialization and location (to other ears - some folks hear vertical location, some folks hear that sound becomes distant), althogh different aspects (band width) of sound seem to create that effect.

Just out of curiosity - I wonder if there is a way to research that part "as is". Reverse engineering.

So how plugins like Q-clone (from Waves) work? I suspect, that the part with "filtering" profiles - could be done this way? Taking short portions of sound, and averaging the spectral curve over time?

Generally I suspect, that positional aspects of location are rather present in sounds in motion, than statiic, so even adding a filter with morphed characteristic could be interesting here. Note, that I'm not necessarily focused on replicating human head (spatial dimensions 1:1). I'm rather interested in "exposing" certain aspects of spatialization and location, beyond typical boundaries, defined by replication.

[tester]

It looks this topic is worth to revisit, and it looks such plugin is worth to create.

Longcat no longer sells their products, and they don't want to share any information why, nor they give any information who to contact, to find out what is going on or how to try to get their past products. So either we have an enemy on the market, who blocks such types of psycho-active technologies (because there seem to be no new products that integrate realistic sound spatialization in their fashion, and they are down for quite some time) or someone sued them for some more or less obvious reasons.

Generally it's not about knobs, sliders or general concepts, but about destination quality, and they did really nice job. But their solutions have some issues to solve too.