The Doppler shift is a naturally occurring phenomenon that shifts the pitch of sound if the emitting object’s distance to the listener is not a constant. These pitch deviations, alongside amplitude change help humans to localise a source’s position, velocity and movement direction. In this paper we investigate spatial audio reproduction methods to determine if Doppler shift is present for a moving sound source. We expand spatialisation techniques to include time-variance in order to produce the Doppler shift. Recordings of several different loudspeaker layouts demonstrate the presence of Doppler with and without time-variance, comparing this to the pre-calculated theoretical values.

Authors: Morrell, Martin J.; Reiss, Joshua D.
Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
AES Convention: 129 (November 2010) Paper Number: 8278
Publication Date: November 4, 2010 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Spatial Sound Processing
Permalink: https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=15700

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