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From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	kailang@realtek.com, 903853@bugs.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Inverted internal mic
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:11:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4D18C3.1020700@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hy5rnnfvz.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

On 02/28/2012 04:20 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> I'm talking about recording an internal mic in *stereo*, as I just wrote
>> below. Or don't you agree that is a valid and probably fairly common use
>> case?
>
> Well, when you record it in stereo, and play it back, then you hear
> the sound without problem.

That could definitely be questioned: depending on the distance between 
speakers when you're finally playing it back, you might lose bass 
frequencies [1]. (That said, I'm not sure how much bass these mics pick 
up anyway.)

> The problem happens only when you sum the
> left and right signals into mono.  Thus, as long as the stream is
> handled as stereo, it could be passed as is, although it's not
> optimal.

So the official recommendation is that summing left and right to make a 
mono signal, is to be considered an invalid operation?

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic

[1] Or possibly get distorted sound in different ways, not sure.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28  8:57 [RFC PATCH] Inverted internal mic David Henningsson
2012-02-28  9:24 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-02-28  9:54   ` David Henningsson
2012-02-28 10:38     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-02-28 13:07       ` David Henningsson
2012-02-28 13:22         ` Takashi Iwai
2012-02-28 14:19           ` David Henningsson
2012-02-28 15:20             ` Takashi Iwai
2012-02-28 18:11               ` David Henningsson [this message]
2012-02-28 19:42                 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-02-29  9:21                   ` David Henningsson
2012-02-29  9:56                     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-02-29 10:45                       ` David Henningsson
2012-02-29 16:36                         ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-19  3:07             ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2012-06-19  7:43               ` David Henningsson
2012-06-20 13:31                 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-21  1:15                   ` David Henningsson
2012-06-21 12:52                     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-21 13:04                       ` David Henningsson
2012-06-21 13:19                         ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-21 14:23                           ` David Henningsson
2012-06-22  9:33                             ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-22 10:46                               ` David Henningsson
2012-06-22 11:00                                 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-22 12:46                                   ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-22 15:27                                     ` David Henningsson
2012-06-22 15:37                                       ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-22 17:33                                         ` David Henningsson
2012-06-23  2:58                                           ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2012-06-23  8:40                                             ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-23  8:39                                           ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-25  8:04                                             ` David Henningsson
2012-06-25  8:18                                               ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-20  8:02               ` Takashi Iwai
2012-06-20 10:54                 ` Eliot Blennerhassett
2012-02-29 11:02 ` Raymond Yau
2012-06-20 21:53 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2012-06-21  5:56   ` Takashi Iwai
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2014-10-20 13:52 rodney byne

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