Handbook for Sound Engineers
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Handbook for Sound Engineers is the most comprehensive reference available for audio engineers, and is a must read for all who work in audio.
With contributions from many of the top professionals in the field, including Glen Ballou on interpretation systems, intercoms, assistive listening, and fundamentals and units of measurement, David Miles Huber on MIDI, Bill Whitlock on audio transformers and preamplifiers, Steve Dove on consoles, DAWs, and computers, Pat Brown on fundamentals, gain structures, and test and measurement, Ray Rayburn on virtual systems, digital interfacing, and preamplifiers, Ken Pohlmann on compact discs, and Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert on computer-aided sound system design and room-acoustical fundamentals for auditoriums and concert halls, the Handbook for Sound Engineers is a must for serious audio and acoustic engineers.
The fifth edition has been updated to reflect changes in the industry, including added emphasis on increasingly prevalent technologies such as software-based recording systems, digital recording using MP3, WAV files, and mobile devices. New chapters, such as Ken Pohlmann’s Subjective Methods for Evaluating Sound Quality, S. Benjamin Kanters’s Hearing Physiology—Disorders—Conservation, Steve Barbar’s Surround Sound for Cinema, Doug Jones’s Worship Styles in the Christian Church, sit aside completely revamped staples like Ron Baker and Jack Wrightson’s Stadiums and Outdoor Venues, Pat Brown’s Sound System Design, Bob Cordell’s Amplifier Design, Hardy Martin’s Voice Evacuation/Mass Notification Systems, and Tom Danley and Doug Jones’s Loudspeakers. This edition has been honed to bring you the most up-to-date information in the many aspects of audio engineering.
Table of Contents
Preface
Trademark Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part 1–Introduction to Acoustics
Chapter 1–Audio and Acoustic DNA—Past and Present
Don and Carolyn Davis
Chapter 2–Subjective Methods for Evaluating Sound Quality
Ken Pohlmann
Chapter 3–Psychoacoustics
Peter Xinya Zhang
Chapter 4–Hearing Physiology–Disorders–Conservation
S. Benjamin Kanters
Chapter 5–Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics
Pat Brown
Part 2–Acoustics
Chapter 6–Small Room Acoustics
Doug Jones
Chapter 7–Acoustical Noise Control
Doug Jones
Chapter 8–Acoustical Treatment for Indoor Areas
Jeff Szymanski
Chapter 9–Room-acoustical Fundamentals for Auditoriums and Concert Halls
Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert and Hans-Peter Tennhardt
Chapter 10–Worship Styles in the Christian Church
Doug Jones
Chapter 11–Stadiums and Outdoor Venues
Ron Baker and Jack Wrightson
Chapter 12–Surround Sound for Cinema
Steve Barbar
Chapter 13–Acoustical Modeling and Auralization
Dominique J. Chéenne
Part 3–Electronic Components
Chapter 14–Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors
Glen Ballou
Chapter 15–Audio Transformers
Bill Whitlock
Chapter 16–Tubes, Discrete Solid State Devices, and Integrated Circuits
Glen Ballou, Leslie B. Tyler, and Wayne Kirkwood
Chapter 17–Heatsinks and Relays
Glen Ballou and Henry Villaume
Chapter 18–Transmission Techniques: Wire and Cable
Steve Lampen and Glen Ballou
Chapter 19–Transmission Techniques: Fiber Optics
Ron Ajemian
Part 4–Electroacoustic Devices
Chapter 20–Microphones
Glen Ballou and Joe Ciaudelli
Chapter 21–Loudspeakers
Tom Danley and Doug Jones
Chapter 22–Loudspeaker Cluster Design
Ralph Heinz
Part 5–Electronic Audio Circuits and Equipment
Chapter 23–Power Supplies
Glen Ballou
Chapter 24–Amplifier Design
Bob Cordell
Chapter 25–Preamplifiers and Mixers
Ray Rayburn and Bill Whitlock
Chapter 26–Attenuators
Glen Ballou
Chapter 27–Filters and Equalizers
Steve McManus
Chapter 28–Delay
Steve McManus
Chapter 29–Consoles, DAWs, and Computers
Steve Dove
Chapter 30–Audio Meters and Devices
Glen Ballou
Part 6–Recording and Playback
Chapter 31–Analog Disc Playback
George Alexandrovich and Glen Ballou
Chapter 32–Magnetic Recording and Playback
Doug Jones
Chapter 33–MIDI
David Mules Huber
Chapter 34–Optical Disc Formats for Audio Reproduction and Recording
Ken Pohlmann
Part 7–Design Applications
Chapter 35–DSP Technology
Dr. Craig Richardson
Chapter 36–Grounding and Interfacing
Bill Whitlock
Chapter 37–System Gain Structure
Pat Brown
Chapter 38–Sound System Design
Pat Brown
Chapter 39–Computer Aided Sound System Design
Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert and Stefan Feistel
Chapter 40–Designing for Speech Intelligibility
Peter Mapp
Chapter 41–Virtual Systems
Ray Rayburn
Chapter 42–Digital Audio Interfacing and Networking
Ray Rayburn
Chapter 43–Personal Monitor Systems
Gino Sigismondi
Chapter 44–Message Repeaters, Museum and Tour Group Systems, Voice Evacuation/Mass Notification Systems
Glen Ballou and Hardy Martin
Chapter 45–Interpretation Systems
Glen Ballou
Chapter 46–Assistive Listening Systems
Glen Ballou
Chapter 47–Intercoms
Glen Ballou
Chapter 48–The Fundamentals of Display Technologies
Alan C. Brawn
Part 8–Measurements
Chapter 49–Test and Measurement
Pat Brown
Chapter 50–Fundamental and Units of Measurement
Glen Ballou
Index
Editor(s)
Biography
Glen Ballou is a graduate of General Motors Institute, now Kettering University, with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Electrical Engineering. He has been a Syn-Aud-Con representative, has served as governor, convention chairman, papers chairman, and facilities chairman of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and has been a member for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He has been a contributor to S&VC, Sound and Communications, and Church Production magazine on a variety of subjects. Glen also wrote the chapter on capacitors and inductors for the CRC Press publication The Electrical Engineering Handbook. Glen is owner of Innovative Communications, a company that specializes in room acoustics and sound system design.