Excellent portfolio of Ben Bauer , Sonik Wiz.
BTW was'nt he also heavily involved in the "London Box" addition for SQ encoding ?
As for the Ghent SQ microphone which automatically gave the SQ encoding to any recording in use , I always wondered how many wee actually made ?
I wonder if anyone knows the answer to my question.
Thanks!
Yup the London Box tried improve mono capability if a sound is positioned center back. It was basically a crude comb filter accomplished by EQ filters set oppositely between Lb/Rb input chs to the encoder. Think: Left 60Hz low, 120 Hz high, 240 Hz low etc. And right back would be 60Hz high, 120 Hz low, 240 Hz high, etc. It's very similar to those old time black boxes for TV's that tried to turn mono into stereo.
I found some interesting stuff today about the Ghent mic partway down in an article about Ambisonics:
https://www.fugato.com/pickett/pantoph.shtml
Edit: I should clarify that only sounds an artist wanted sent to center back went through the London Box. Corner sounds were not.
Also don't forget the SQ Position Encoder. There were several flavors of SQ encoding such as front oriented, side oriented, back oriented, & of course the basic vanilla flavor. These were all wrapped up in one "package" called the SQ Position Encoder. Odd how SQ was pushed as the optimum stereo/quad compatible system ( well they all were...) they spent a lot of time & ingenuity fixing the loop holes.
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