Virtual Barbershop

If you have never experienced the virtual barbershop, then you'd better thank your lucky stars you decided to have a squiz at BB's blog.

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Anyhoo, this is further down just in case some may not have wanted to know what to expect . . .
The effect is created by recording a scene with two microphones that are positioned the way our ears are. when each mic's recording is then channeled into the appropriate headphones, our brains calculate the ever-so-slight differences in the sounds to recreate the three dimensions, and the directions each sound is coming from.

"Setera . . ." - Still gives me shivers.

This is to date the best example of stereophonic (I think thats the name) recording I have heard.

*Edit* It is a holophonic sound clip, created with a technique called Binaural Recording