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Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms

Floyd Toole, "Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms"
Focal Press | 2008-07-18 | ISBN: 0240520092 | 576 pages | PDF | 17 MB

Floyd Toole, a leading expert in the field of sound reproduction, explains how to design the best possible listening experience for recording control rooms and home entertainment systems. This comprehensive work considers the whole sound reproduction chain from multi channel audio configurations and the loudspeaker/room system to acoustics and psychoacoustics and the evaluation process.

Part 1 shows the reader how to create the best listening experience, offering practical approaches to the sound reproduction chain. Parts 2 and 3 are an in-depth consideration of acoustics and psychoacoustics - the science behind Part 1.

* How to design a great audio system - for a home entertainment system or a professional recording control room
* Offers a comprehensive look at the sound reproduction chain offering practical advice and helpful graphics throughout
* Learn from a leading expert in sound reproduction - Floyd Toole provides essential knowledge in a highly readable and entertaining style

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Principles of Digital Audio

Ken Pohlmann, “Principles of Digital Audio”
McGraw-Hill Professional | 2000 | ISBN: 0071348190 | 736 pages | HTML | 7,6 MB

Cash in on the hottest digital audio technologies. Through three bestselling editions, Ken C. PohlmannAEs Principles of Digital Audio has illuminated the frontiers of digital audio science, taking readers from fundamental principles to the state of the art. Since the last edition, digital audio technology and applications have expanded explosively - a situation well-reflected in the new fourth edition of this user-friendly guide by a leading digital audio engineer. You'll find fresh, tell-all treatments, both theoretical and practical of: PC audio - including IEEE 1394, USB, AC ae97, and DirectX; Internet audio u especially MP3, SDMI, and RealNetworks G2 streaming audio; Low bit rate topics u including MPEG-2, AAC, MPEG-4, Dolby Digital, and PAC; DVD u DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, recordable DVD, UDF, and MLP; Television and radio broadcasting topics u ATSC DTV, AM-IOBC and FM-IBOC (including USA Digital Radio and LDR prototypes); New compact disc topics, such as CD-R, CD-RW, and Super Audio CD. You'll also get valuable insights into new AES standards, jitter, sound cards, data compression, digital audio extraction, watermarking, and much more.

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Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Cyclopedia

Glen M. Ballou, «Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Cyclopedia, 2nd Edition»
Sams Publishing | ISBN: 0672227525 | 1991 | DJVU | 1506 pages | 22.57 MB

This handbook is the best I've every read. There are some good books for pro-audio, but this one cover everything. Not only audio, but image projection as well.

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Acoustics and Psychoacoustics

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Third Edition
Publisher: Focal Press | ISBN: 0240519957 | edition 2006 | PDF | 416 pages | 3,0 mb

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics is ideal for students of music technology, sound recording, traditional music and acoustics, as well as engineers studying audio, multimedia and communications systems. Gain a practical understanding of how real musical sounds behave and are perceived in real spaces with this accessible and interesting read.
This third edition offers a CD of audio examples, crucial for a clear understanding of the concepts discussed.
Seems to be an easier acoustics text than the classic Rossing and similar approaches. The focus is sufficiently practical to bring in generalist or the technician who wants to understand a bit more, but also sufficiently deep to satisfy anyone other than a physicist. But they'd just add another book on, and be happy as well.

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Sound Intensity

Sound Intensity
Taylor & Francis | 1995-10-01 | ISBN: 0419198105 | 320 pages | PDF | 6 MB

The advent of instruments capable of measuring sound intensity, which represents the flow of energy in sound fields, has revolutionised audio-frequency acoustical metrology. Since publication of the first edition, two International Standards for the use of sound intensity for sound source power determination, and one International Standard for sound intensity instrumentation, have also been published. A number of International Standards have also been developed.

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Pro Tools for Music Production, Second Edition: Recording, Editing and Mixing
Publisher: Focal Press | Pages: 400 | 2004-08-14 | ISBN 0240519434 | PDF | 9 MB

Pro Tools for Music Production is a definitive guide to the system for new and professional users. Extensively illustrated in colour and packed with time saving hints and tips, you will want to keep to hand as a constant source of information. The book takes a real-world approach and shows how to build the right system to suit your needs. Detailed chapters on recording, editing and mixing blend essential knowledge with tutorials and practical examples from actual recordings.

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Home Recording Studio Construction: Build it Like the Pros

Home Recording Studio Construction: Build it Like the Pros By Rodney Gervais
Publisher: Course Technology Inc 2006 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 1598630342 | PDF | 11 MB

With the advances in digital technology, musicians can now produce their own music. But the gear is only part of the equation when it comes to recording and mixing. The next part is finding a soundproof room that you can produce it in. Unfortunately, any old room in your house will not suffice for a quality recording. Without a decent room, you?ll never be able to record a studio-quality recording you?ll be proud of and excited to have other people hear. So how do you go about creating a space in your home that has similar acoustics to that of a world-class studio? How do you soundproof this room to keep your sound in and outside noise out? How do you construct or modify the room so that its size and shape best complement its function? Home Recording Studio: Build It Like the Pros teaches you how to do all these things, from building a professional home studio to saving thousands of dollars in the process. This book shows you how to design and understand your room?how to treat it, wire it, and condition it while using widely available materials. Each step features visual aids to illustrate underlying concepts, as well as professional tips and examples from actual studios. Everything is covered, from room design to electrical considerations, room treatments to codes, permits, special needs, and more. With over 30 years of construction experience, Rod Gervais gives you a comprehensive and cost-effective plan for building that home studio that will have you building and recording in no time. A complete glossary of terms is also included, and a collection of handy tools to aid you in your design is available on the author?s companion Web site. So what are you waiting for?

1. Getting Started
2. Modes, Nodes, and Other Terms of Confusion
3. Isolation Techniques - Understanding the Concepts
4. Floor, Wall, and Ceiling Construction Details
5. Window and Door Construction
6. Electrical Considerations
7. HVAC Design Concepts
8. Room Testing
9. Room Treatments
10. Putting It All Together
11. Myths and Legends
12. Codes, Permits, and Special Nee

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Sound Studio: Audio Techniques for Radio, Television, Film and Recording

Sound Studio: Audio Techniques for Radio, Television, Film and Recording
Publisher: Focal Press | Pages: 448 | 2003-07 | ISBN 0240519116 | PDF | 5 MB

This classic work has inspired and informed a whole generation of artists and technicians working in all branches of the audio industry. Now in its seventh edition, The Sound Studio has been thoroughly revised to encompass the rapidly expanding range of possibilities offered by today's digital equipment. It now covers: the virtual studio; 5.1 surround sound; hard drive mixers and multichannel recorders; DVD and CD-RW.

Alec Nisbett provides encyclopaedic coverage of everything from acoustics, microphones and loudspeakers, to editing, mixing and sound effects, as well as a comprehensive glossary.

Through its six previous editions, The Sound Studio has been used for over 40 years as a standard work of reference on audio techniques. For a new generation, it links all the best techniques back to their roots: the unchanging guiding principles that have long been observed over a wide range of related media and crafts.

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Sound Design and Science Fiction

William Whittington, "Sound Design and Science Fiction"
University of Texas Press | 2007 | ISBN: 0292714319, 0292714300 | 288 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB

Sound is half the picture, and since the 1960s, film sound not only has rivaled the innovative imagery of contemporary Hollywood cinema, but in some ways has surpassed it in status and privilege because of the emergence of sound design.

This in-depth study by William Whittington considers the evolution of sound design not only through cultural and technological developments during the last four decades, but also through the attitudes and expectations of filmgoers. Fans of recent blockbuster films, in particular science fiction films, have come to expect a more advanced and refined degree of film sound use, which has changed the way they experience and understand spectacle and storytelling in contemporary cinema.

The book covers recent science fiction cinema in rich and compelling detail, providing a new sounding of familiar films, while offering insights into the constructed nature of cinematic sound design. This is accomplished by examining the formal elements and historical context of sound production in movies to better appreciate how a film sound track is conceived and presented. Whittington focuses on seminal science fiction films that have made specific advances in film sound, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, THX 1138, Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner (original version and director's cut), Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The Matrix trilogy and games--milestones of the entertainment industry's technological and aesthetic advancements with sound.

Setting itself apart from other works, the book illustrates through accessible detail and compelling examples how swiftly such advancements in film sound aesthetics and technology have influenced recent science fiction cinema, and examines how these changes correlate to the history, theory, and practice of contemporary Hollywood filmmaking.

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Recording Spaces

Recording Spaces
Publisher: Focal Press | ISBN: 0240515072 | edition 1998 | PDF | 185 pages | 4,9 mb

Discusses the acoustics of rooms intended for musical performance of many styles, in terms of isolation, internal acoustics, possible techniques of use, and the way that these spaces will interact with the musicians, their instruments, and the microphones. Also included are the concepts of sound isolation, the principal processes at work, and descriptions of actual rooms and techniques.
The book describes how the isolation requirements have their effect on the internal acoustics of the rooms, and how the room treatments must be conceived with such interactions taken into consideration.
Starting from the initial concepts, to the measurements of the finished items, Recording Spaces discusses many different types of room, from vocal `booths' to orchestral rooms. There are many stories of how actual `classical' musical performances, from rock to orchestral, have been inspired, or strongly influenced, by the acoustics of their recording spaces.
The book completes a trilogy of titles, with Studio Monitoring Design and Project Studios complementing each other and covering the subjects of acoustics, monitoring and equipment interfacing which will have relevance from the most meagre studio to the world's finest.

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