"Laurence Payne" wrote in message

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:24:38 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
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.

Dummy head recording is very old news.

It can only be reasonably be played on headphones.

Any thoughts before I start moulding body parts in
plaster?

Do some homework, first. Google gives 100,000 hits
for "dummy head recording".

But not much on dummy head recording using a modeled ear
cavity.

And that makes perfect sense, because the person listening to the recording
listens through a *real* ear cavity.

If you want to go a little beyond a glib put-down,

Seems like it is very much on-target.

Google has interesting stuff on "ear acoustics" such as:

Umm, you just told the guy to go google. Like I just did.

;-)