Sound Reproduction

Sound Reproduction

Author: Floyd E. Toole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 956

ISBN-13: 1317415094

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Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms, Third Edition explains the physical and perceptual processes that are involved in sound reproduction and demonstrates how to use the processes to create high-quality listening experiences in stereo and multichannel formats. Understanding the principles of sound production is necessary to achieve the goals of sound reproduction in spaces ranging from recording control rooms and home listening rooms to large cinemas. This revision brings new science-based perspectives on the performance of loudspeakers, room acoustics, measurements and equalization, all of which need to be appropriately used to ensure the accurate delivery of music and movie sound tracks from creators to listeners. The robust website (www.routledge.com/cw/toole) is the perfect companion to this necessary resource.


The Audible Past

The Audible Past

Author: Jonathan Sterne

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-03-13

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780822330134

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Accurate Sound Reproduction Using DSP

Accurate Sound Reproduction Using DSP

Author: Mitch Barnett

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-02

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781520977904

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This eBook provides the audio enthusiast with an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide for designing a custom digital filter that corrects the frequency and timing response of your loudspeakers in your listening environment so that the music arriving at your ears matches as closely as possible to the content on the recording.Industry guidelines, spanning over 40 years of evolution, are referenced throughout the eBook, providing the recommended target responses for accurate sound reproduction. Correcting the measured response to known target responses is, in effect, matching the acoustic output signal arriving at your ears to the digital audio stored in a media file. The target responses can also be tailored to your own preferences.The chapter on the acoustics and psychoacoustics of room correction explains why we hear what we hear in small-room acoustics and what our ears care about most when it comes to accurate sound reproduction. There are individual chapters on industry target responses for frequency and step response, group delay, energy time curve, reverb time, polar response and interaural coherence coefficient (i.e., imaging).Advanced sections of the eBook show you how to design and implement digital crossovers, driver linearization, and driver time alignment; how to compensate for brickwall antialiasing filters; and how to use the Beamforming quasi-anechoic measurement technique. All of these sections are designed to incrementally improve your sound reproduction system's accuracy. The last section of the eBook shows you how to perform loopback measurements to verify the design and operation of your digital correction filter, not only at the listening position, but across a wide listening area as well.Whether your sound reproduction system is a computer desktop speaker system, stereo audiophile system, home theater multi-channel system, mains and sub-woofer system, DIY audio system, or car sound system, the results are audible, measurable, and repeatable.To benefit the most from this step-by-step guide, you will require a computer, a calibrated measurement microphone, an Analog to Digital (ADC)/Digital to Analog (DAC) converter, and two commercial software packages: Acourate DSP Audio Toolbox and JRiver Media Center. This eBook contains several color-coded images, so viewing on a color screen is required.With over 260 color screen captures of the software in action, plus 200 links to industry reference material and knowledge, this eBook is the definitive guide to Accurate Sound Reproduction Using Digital Signal Processing (DSP).


Sound Recording and Reproduction

Sound Recording and Reproduction

Author: E. G. M. Alkin

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780240514673

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Sound Recording and Reproduction is a comprehensive practical guide for newcomers to the industry who want to improve their technique and gain a better understanding of the recording medium and sound quality in general. The book follows the processes involved in producing a recording, from the acoustic environment and production techniques to the various methods of sound recording and reproduction. Areas covered include: *The nature of sound * Acoustics * Microphones * Sound mixing * Noise reduction * Loudspeakers Sadly now deceased, Glyn Alkin was a freelance audio consultant, and was for many years concerned with the selection, training and career development of many senior level studio staff in the BBC and overseas. His other book for Focal Press 'Sound Techniques for Video and TV' is also in the Media Manuals series.


Spatial Sound

Spatial Sound

Author: Bosun Xie

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-10-17

Total Pages: 1130

ISBN-13: 1000642860

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Spatial sound is an enhanced and immersive set of audio techniques which provides sound in three-dimensional virtual space. This comprehensive handbook sets out the basic principles and methods with a representative group of applications: sound field and spatial hearing; principles and analytic methods of various spatial sound systems, including two-channel stereophonic sound, and multichannel horizontal and spatial surround sound; ambisonics; wavefield synthesis; binaural playback and virtual auditory display; recording and synthesis, and storage and transmission of spatial sound signals; and objective and subjective evaluation. Applications range from cinemas to small mobile devices. The only book to review spatial sound principles and applications extensively Covers the whole field of spatial sound The book suits researchers, graduate students, and specialist engineers in acoustics, audio, and signal processing.


3D Audio

3D Audio

Author: Justin Paterson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-25

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0429957238

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3D Audio offers a detailed perspective of this rapidly developing arena. Written by many of the world’s leading researchers and practitioners, it draws from science, technologies, and creative practice to provide insight into cutting-edge research in 3D audio. Through exploring the intersection of these fields, the reader will gain insight into a number of research areas and professional practice in 3D sonic space. As such, the book acts both as a primer that enables readers to gain an understanding of various aspects of 3D audio, and can inform students and audio enthusiasts, but its deep treatment of a diverse range of topics will also inform professional practitioners and academics beyond their core specialisms. The chapters cover areas such as an Ambisonics, binaural technologies and approaches, psychoacoustics, 3D audio recording, composition for 3D space, 3D audio in live sound, broadcast, and movies – and more. Overall, this book offers a definitive insight into an emerging sound world that is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives.


Sound Reproduction

Sound Reproduction

Author: Floyd E. Toole

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 0240520092

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Covering designing listening experiences, acoustics and psychoacoustics this book shows how to design the best possible listening experience for recording control rooms and home entertainment systems.


The Art and Science of 3D Audio Recording

The Art and Science of 3D Audio Recording

Author: Edwin Pfanzagl-Cardone

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-11

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 3031230469

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This professional book offers a unique, comprehensive and timely guide on 3D audio recording. Intended for sound engineers and professionals, and summarizing more than twenty-year research on this topic, it includes extensive information and details on various microphone techniques and loudspeaker layouts, such as Auro-3D®, Dolby® AtmosTM, DTS:X®, MMAD, SONY 360 Reality Audio and Ambisonics. It presents a rich set of results obtained from both objective measurements and subjective listening tests, and a number of case studies for 3D recording, ranging from solo-instrument techniques to full symphony orchestra, and microphone systems for virtual reality applications. Further, it includes a chapter on spatial hearing discussing issues of 3D audio sound reproduction. All in all, this book offers extensive, practical information for sound engineers and professionals.


Auralization

Auralization

Author: Michael Vorländer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 3030512029

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Auralization is the technique of creation and reproduction of sound on the basis of computer data. With this tool it is possible to predict the character of sound signals which are generated at the source and modified by reinforcement, propagation and transmission in systems such as rooms, buildings, vehicles or other technical devices. This book is organized as a comprehensive collection of the basics of sound and vibration, acoustic modelling, simulation, signal processing and audio reproduction. With some mathematical prerequisites, the readers will be able to follow the main strategy of auralization easily and work out their own implementations of auralization in various fields of application in architectural acoustics, acoustic engineering, sound design and virtual reality. For readers interested in basic research, the technique of auralization may be useful to create sound stimuli for specific investigations in linguistic, medical, neurological and psychological research, and in the field of human-machine interaction.


Staging Dance

Staging Dance

Author: Susan Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1135861218

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Staging Dance is a practical handbook that covers all aspects of putting on a dance production. It highlights the current diversity of dance activities, choosing examples from working dance groups and from individual dancers. The book includes sections on choreography, music and sound, designing and making sets and costumes, lighting design and technical implementation and stage management. Funding, planning and publicity are also covered. Staging Dance will prove invaluable not only to dance artists, but also those working along side them: musicians, designers, lighting technicians, administrators and directors.