Skip to main content

Get full access to Sound System Engineering 4e, 4th Edition and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Start your free trial

Chapter 24

Sound System Equalization

by Don Davis and Eugene Patronis, Jr.

24.1 System Criteria

24.2 Early Research on Equalization

Feedback Defined

24.3 The Transient Nature of Acoustic Feedback

Early Practitioners

24.4 Introduction of Real-Time Analyzers

One-Third of an Octave Analyzers and Equalizers

Forty Years Later

RTA Applications

24.5 Band-Rejection, Bandpass, and Band-Boost Filters

Criteria for Band-Rejection Filters

Filter Parameters

Characteristics of Successful Filters

Filter Transfer Characteristics

Minimum-Phase Filters

24.6 TEF Analysis in Equalization

24.7 How to Approach Equalization

When to Use an Equalizer

Sources of Feedback That Should Not Be Equalized

Feedback Is a Single Frequency

Which Sound Field Is ...

Get Sound System Engineering 4e, 4th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Cover of Software Architecture Patterns

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now