Eeyore wrote:

Eiron wrote:

I was thinking about doing some dummy head recording and the effect on
frequency response
of using an electret capsule in a model of an ear, compared to just
placing it on the surface of a head-sized sphere.

Any thoughts before I start moulding body parts in plaster?

If you model the ear's shape then you'll double the effect when listening
to the recording. Not required therefore I'd say.

Surely not if you're listening on in-ear phones.
Whatever effect the external ear produces, you only want it to happen once.
So perhaps a dummy-head microphone with realistic ears would be better
for in-ear phones,
and one without ears would be better for full-size phones.

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Eiron.