All-round ambisonic panning and decoding

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 807-820

  Zotter, Franz ^a   Frank, Matthias ^a  

^a Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE PANNING; DIRECTION-INDEPENDENT; ENERGY SPREADS;

DECODING; LOUDSPEAKERS; OPTIMIZATION;

AUDIO RECORDINGS;

EID: 84870348435     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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