Dreadhead

Nope, dress watch style with 3 complications :

Service on my Zentih El Primero, could by me a couple nice watches for the service price on that thing

Hmmm those look rather promising I would say. IF you do have them Dan make sure to send both out

come on this is Hollywood where a guy who commits statutory rape then skips the country. Since then earning millions and jet setting around Europe to his multiple houses has paid enough for his crimes....

Bad times... I hope you get a refund.

Yup the EQ and research into that EQ is what you're paying for. I plan to apply the EQ using an impulse response function which is a lot easier if you're dealing with the data digitally and doesn't have the phase issues (I think Aachen may do it digitally too). Heard back from the calibration guy and he is interested but needs to think about it a bit because of concerns about the HRTF effecting the results but I only want the calibration with the head facing the source anyway.

Why not? I am actually being serious. The distortion numbers on the measurement mics is very low and the transducers in the KU100 are pretty small too. I guess I could go nuts and do it with Earthworks M30s instead but that would drive the cost way up. I long ago abandoned that because it has a brand name on it is something special. The Aachen is even more expensive (I think north of 20k) because they pretty much only sell it as a measurement device. Long term I'd love to find a KU100 but I could never really justify it but if I keep this under $500 it's a lot easier to justify. I have a paper from the guys at Aachen that I have to read on the auralization of spaces goes rummaging through his briefcase.

I emailed the guy who I bought my calibrated mic from to see if he would calibrate the head and for how much if he will. He usually charges $50 or so for a mono mic so I would assume $100 or so. If I get the calibration done for that price and including the mics I may get out for under $300 not bad considering the Neumann is over 5 grand

Dusty, thanks for the advice re the body shop but I actually have quite of a bit of experience with fiberglass through my work on various sailboats through the years. The head I'm using has ears etc so the flaps are covered mostly (the Aachen head doesn't even have real ears, HEAD acoustics - NVH Division - Binaural recording systems - Overview). The newest binaural heads (Aachen/Head, Neumann) seem to have a hard surface with a matte finish which Bob is pretty close to as well. Also the methods for binaural vary a bit because some even use mics outside the head like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dummyhead.jpg I figure if they will calibrate it it should be damn close after the equalization is applied. The professional ones have the equalization built in.

You should be turning it up 6dB (or so). As far as working harder the amp should be using 6db more gain as well and be 6db closer to the noise floor etc..

Hi All, I'm thinking of buying two measurement mikes and turning my new mannequin head Bob into a binaural head with ear canals etc. Once I do that I will also send it off to be calibrated and then the fun will really begin To do this though I need a dremel or something that will let my router out a couple access ports etc into the back of Bob. Anyone have something suitable I can borrow?

I will take that under advisement.....

He takes his listening very seriously

I did the hour estimates for the 7 people in my group through the end of the year and found out that I have 560 hours of scheduled work for myself and there are only 520 hours to the end of the year. To add insult to injury that does not include my management load, like doing hour estimates and schedules. I think it's time to find a new job.

Pics of Bob (the head). Looks surprisingly good but I had not thought it through because he's fiberglass and it's going to be very hard to install a measurement mic.

It has been touched by the hand of luvdunhill.....

Dunno. I'd whine a bit too if they downgraded the spec on the DAC chip (even if it's inaudible). Look forward to hearing impressions

Now I need to figure out how to mount the measurement mic in it once it arrives.

Foam head for some experimentation

I live inside the beltway

Happy Birthday Sir!

Claiming there is no difference between the two parties is like claiming there is no difference between Fox News and CNN

Great Thanks! This is going to result in some weird looks when I pick this up from my mailbox at the UPS store.

Doug if you don't mind could you put up where you found the mannequin heads? I have been thinking of getting one myself.