AURALISATION OF A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH ODEON - THE CHAIN FROM MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS TO THE EARDRUMS

Auralisation is a very complicated technique, the quality of which depends on every single part in a long chain, starting with the anechoic recording of the sound to be used as input, continuing through the room acoustic simulation that connects the source and the receiver, and ending in the presentation of the sound to the listening person. The auralisation of a symphony orchestra is an even bigger challenge because of the large number of sound sources distributed over a considerable area. Recently, a number of high quality anechoic recordings of symphonic music aiming at the multisource auralisation technique have been available. So, the aim of this paper is to give an overview of the auralisation chain with particular reference to the multi-source auralisation of a symphony orchestra.