VR Ball
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Common name: B9Audio VR Ball
Production Status: In production
The VR Ball is a 20 cm diameter ball shaped enclosure that can house up to 7 microphones. The basic setup features a binaural omni stereo pair at the simulated ear position. Next to these two bidirectional microphones can be positioned for front to back, and up to down orientation. Together with the omni [M] microphone, these 2 figure-8 can be the [S] microphone for an MS matrix in order to obtain [Front], [Rear], [High], and [Low] pseudo pointing microphone signals. In the nose position, there is place for an omni, cardioid, super-cardioid, or shotgun microphone. The microphones are not fixed, they can be removed and used individually.
The microphone outputs are connected with 2 XLR connectors with various pin configuration depending on microphones combination. It can be two 3-pin connectors for a basic binaural stereo, two 5-pin for binaural stereo plus front to back as for surround sound configuration. Or two 7-pin for 6 channels that includes 2 omnidirectional microphones and four bidirectional microphones. Double 10-pin can be configured for up to 8 channels connection.
There are four 3/8” bolt threads for various mounting or flying applications.
Special thin multi-channel cables are available upon request. Multi-pin to multiple standard 3-pin XLR plugs are also supplied as needed.