Lo-Fi ATC - Hackdot

Re:Lo-Fi ATC by sandos on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:59AM (#35133472)

This is interesting, I could hear controller and pilot talking. But they had some sort of stereo-separation! Pilot was to the left and tower to the right. Thats not possible, is it? I assume the audio is mono in real life.

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Re:Lo-Fi ATC by blackboxlogic on Monday March 13, 2023 @06:53AM (#35133900)

it might pan the audio side to side each time there is silence just for effect.

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Re:Lo-Fi ATC by jagged-chisel on Monday March 13, 2023 @07:01AM (#35133968)

I mean, why can’t the ATC streamer mix the audio sources into stereo?

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Re:Lo-Fi ATC by joelccr on Monday March 13, 2023 @08:21AM (#35134706)

LiveATC often mixes multiple feeds for one airport (out of tower, ground, approach etc) into a stereo stream with one feed in each channel so you can listen to more than one frequency at once

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Re:Lo-Fi ATC by someweirdperson on Monday March 13, 2023 @09:40AM (#35135584)

All the x.y multi-speaker configurations are missing a "top" speaker. Why hasn't anyone invented that yet?

For the recording, with the ground transmitter stationary, it could be separated by one receiver shilded to look at only the ground transmitter, and a second omni-directional one for anything flying.

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Re:Lo-Fi ATC by etskinner on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:15PM (#35139976)

The human ear doesn't really have the ability to determine the height of a source reliably, only left/right. A better effect might be putting the audio out of phase on left/right, which usually has the effect of making it difficult to hear where the sound is coming from (it kind of makes it sound like it's omnidirectional like you mentioned)

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