1st Edition

Audio Engineering Explained

Edited By Douglas Self Copyright 2010
    650 Pages
    by Routledge

    650 Pages
    by Routledge

    All the design and development inspiration and direction an audio engineer needs in one blockbuster book! Douglas Self has selected the very best sound engineering design material from the Focal and Newnes portfolio and complied it into this volume. The result is a book covering the gamut of sound engineering.
    The material has been selected for its timelessness as well as for its relevance to contemporary sound engineering issues.

    Part I PART I Basics; Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics; Chapter 2 Introduction to Hearing; Part II PART II Microphones; Chapter 3 Basic Sound Transmission and Operational Forces on Microphones; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 Electrical Considerations and Electronic Interface, JohnEargle; Part III PART III Preamplifiers, Mixers, and Interconnects; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Mixers, FrancisRumsey, TimMcCormick; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Transmission Techniques: Wire and Cable; Chapter 7 Grounding and Interfacing, Bill Whitlock; Part IV PART IV Power Amplifiers; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 Power Amplifier Architecture and Negative Feedback; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 The General Principles of Power Amplifiers; Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Class-G Power amplifiers; Part V PART V Loudspeakers; Chapter 11 What is a Loudspeaker?; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12 Diversity of Design; Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Loudspeaker Cabinets; Chapter 14 Crossovers; Part VI PART VI Digital Audio; Chapter 15 DSP Technology; Chapter 16 CHAPTER 16 MIDI; Part VII Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement; Chapter 17 Large Room Acoustics, Don Davis, Carolyn Davis; Chapter 18 CHAPTER 18 Sound System Equalization; Chapter 19 Reflections, Images, and the Precedence Effect; Part VIII Recording Studios; Chapter 20 CHAPTER 20 Sound Isolation; Chapter 21 Chapter 21 The Studio Environment Index;

    Biography

    Douglas Self