Current use of Ambisonics

•1st order Ambisonics is still widely employed, as now it can be implemented employing very cheap equipment (Tetramic, Brahma) •Pulsive sound sources are usually preferred for a number of reasons •Portable, battery operated recorders make it very easy to collect a large number of impulse responses •A new digital method of processing the signals provides much better polar response than those available form the original Soundfield microphone