Handbook for Sound Engineers - GBV [PDF]

Handbook for Sound Engineers The New Audio Cyclopedia Second Edition Glen Ballou Editor

SAMS A Division of Macmillan Computer Publishing 11711 North College, Carmel. Indiana 46032 USA

Contents Preface

ix

Trademark Acknowledgments

xi

Contributors

xiii

PART 1—ACOUSTICS CHAPTER 1 Fundamentals of S o u n d F. Alton Everest

3 CHAPTER 2

Psychoacoustics F. Alton Everest

25 CHAPTER 3

Acoustics of Small Rooms F. Alton Everest

43 CHAPTER 4

Common Factors in All Audio Rooms F. Alton Everest

67 CHAPTER 5

Acoustical Design of Audio Rooms F. Alton Everest

103

CHAPTER 6 Contemporary Practices in Audio Room Design F. Alton Everest CHAPTER 7 Rooms for Speech a n d Music Rollins Brook CHAPTER 8 Acoustics of Open Plan Rooms Rollins Brook v

143

171

203

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CHAPTER 9 Acoustics for Cinemas Ted Uzzle

211

PART 2—ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS FOR S O U N D E N G I N E E R I N G CHAPTER 1 0 Resistors, Capacitors, a n d Inductors Glen Ballon

225 CHAPTER 1 1

Audio Transformers a n d Their Uses Franklin J . Miller

251

CHAPTER 1 2 Tubes, Discrete Solid-State Devices, a n d Integrated Circuits Glen Ballou CHAPTER 1 3 T r a n s m i s s i o n Techniques Glen Ballou, Albert L. Grundy, and Ronald G. Ajemian CHAPTER 1 4 Heat Sinks a n d Relays Glen Ballou

273

313

373

PART 3—ELECTROACOUSTIC DEVICES CHAPTER 1 5 Microphones Glen Ballou

393

CHAPTER 1 6 Loudspeakers, Enclosures, a n d Headphones Cliff Henricksen

497

PART 4—ELECTRONIC AUDIO CIRCUITS A N D EQUIPMENT CHAPTER 1 7 Amplifier Design Gene Patronis

595 CHAPTER 1 8

Preamplifiers a n d Mixers Mahlon Burkhard

623 CHAPTER 1 9

Attenuators Glen Ballou

641 CHAPTER 2 0

Filters a n d Equalizers Mahlon Burkhard

663

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CHAPTER 2 1 Delay Mahlon

701 Burkhard CHAPTER 2 2

Power Supplies Glen Ballou

719 CHAPTER 2 3

VI Meters a n d Devices Glen Ballou

757 CHAPTER 2 4

Consoles a n d Systems Steve Dove

771

- P A R T 5—RECORDING A N D PLAYBACK CHAPTER 2 5 Disk Recording a n d Playback George Alexandrovich

909 CHAPTER 2 6

Compact Discs Ken C. Pohlmann

1011 CHAPTER 2 7

Magnetic Recording a n d Playback Dale Manquen

1033 CHAPTER 2 8

Digital Recording Dale Manquen

1081 CHAPTER 2 9

MIDI David Miles

1101 Huber

PART 6—DESIGN APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 3 0 Details of the Session Chips Davis, with Linda

1139 Jacobson CHAPTER31

Sound System Design Chris Foreman

1175 CHAPTER 3 2

Designing for Speech Intelligibility Don and Carolyn Davis

1277 CHAPTER 3 3

Systems for the Hearing Impaired Rollins Brook and Glen Ballou

1299

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CHAPTER 3 4 Audio in Broadcasting Emil Torick

1313 CHAPTER 3 5

Image Projection Glen Ballou

1325

PART 7—MEASUREMENTS CHAPTER 3 6 Audio Measurements Don and Carolyn Davis

1365

CHAPTER 3 7 Fundamentals and Units of Measurement Glen Ballou

1413

Index

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