Handbook for Sound Engineers
Author | : Glen Ballou |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 2834 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1135016658 |
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.
Perfecting Sound Forever
Author | : Greg Milner |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1429957158 |
In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers now allow musicians and engineers to create the illusion of performances that never were. In between lies a century of sonic exploration into the balance between the real and the represented. Tracing the contours of this history, Greg Milner takes us through the major breakthroughs and glorious failures in the art and science of recording. An American soldier monitoring Nazi radio transmissions stumbles onto the open yet revolutionary secret of magnetic tape. Japanese and Dutch researchers build a first-generation digital audio format and watch as their "compact disc" is marketed by the music industry as the second coming of Edison yet derided as heretical by analog loyalists. The music world becomes addicted to volume in the nineties and fights a self-defeating "loudness war" to get its fix. From Les Paul to Phil Spector to King Tubby, from vinyl to pirated CDs to iPods, Milner's Perfecting Sound Forever pulls apart musical history to answer a crucial question: Should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? The answers he uncovers will change the very way we think about music.
Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland
Author | : Patrick Weston Joyce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Heraldry |
ISBN | : |
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature
Author | : Robert Chambers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Audio Cyclopedia
Author | : Howard M. Tremaine |
Publisher | : Indianapolis : H. W. Sams |
Total Pages | : 1772 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Author | : Clarence Wilbur Taber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2526 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Dictionaries, Medical |
ISBN | : |
Contains 55,000 alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of terms and phrases related to health science.