February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
33h 44m
English
Content preview from Audio Engineer's Reference Book, 2nd Edition
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Contents
| Preface to first edition | |||||||
| Preface to second edition | |||||||
| List of contributors | |||||||
| 1 | Basic Principles | ||||||
| 1.1 Mathematics, formulae and equations | |||||||
| John Ratcliff | |||||||
| 1.2 Units used in audio engineering | |||||||
| John Ratcliff | |||||||
| 1.3 The physics of sound waves | |||||||
| Michael Talbot-Smith | |||||||
| 1.4 The hearing process | |||||||
| J. Patrick Wilson | |||||||
| 1.5 Perceptual audio coding | |||||||
| Louis D. Fielder | |||||||
| 1.6 Noise measurement | |||||||
| Glynne Parry and Richard Tyler | |||||||
| 1.7 Electromechanical analogies | |||||||
| Michael Gayford | |||||||
| 1.8 Introduction to digital audio | |||||||
| Roger Derry | |||||||
| 2 | Acoustics and acoustic devices | ||||||
| 2.1 Room acoustics | |||||||
| Bob Walker | |||||||
| 2.2 Sound isolation and noise control | |||||||
| Bob Walker | |||||||
| 2.3 Microphones | |||||||
| Michael Talbot-Smith and Chris Woolf | |||||||
| 2.4 Loudspeakers and headphones | |||||||
| John Borwick | |||||||
| 2.5 Stereo | |||||||
| Francis Rumsey | |||||||
| 2.6 Microphones for stereo ... | |||||||
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