Handbook for Sound Engineers

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.

Glen Ballou is a graduate of General Motors Institute, now Kettering University, with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Electrical Engineering. He has been a Syn-Aud-Con representative, has served as governor, convention chairman, papers chairman, and facilities chairman of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and has been a member for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He has been a contributor to S&VC, Sound and Communications, and Church Production magazine on a variety of subjects. Glen also wrote the chapter on capacitors and inductors for the CRC Press publication The Electrical Engineering Handbook. Glen is owner of Innovative Communications, a company that specializes in room acoustics and sound system design.

Part 1-Introduction to Acoustics Chapter 1-Audio and Acoustic DNA-Past and Present Chapter 2-Subjective Methods for Evaluating Sound QualityChapter 3-PsychoacousticsChapter 4-Hearing Physiology-Disorders-Conservation Chapter 5-Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics Part 2-Acoustics Chapter 6-Small Room Acoustics Chapter 7-Acoustical Noise Control Chapter 8-Acoustical Treatment for Indoor Areas Chapter 9-Room-acoustical Fundamentals for Auditoriums and Concert Halls Chapter 10-Worship Styles in the Christian Church Chapter 11-Stadiums and Outdoor Venues Chapter 12-Surround Sound for Cinema Chapter 13-Acoustical Modeling and Auralization Part 3-Electronic Components Chapter 14-Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors Chapter 15-Audio Transformers Chapter 16-Tubes, Discrete Solid State Devices, and Integrated Circuits Chapter 17-Heatsinks and Relays Chapter 18-Transmission Techniques: Wire and Cable Chapter 19-Transmission Techniques: Fiber Optics Part 4-Electroacoustic Devices Chapter 20-Microphones Chapter 21-Loudspeakers Chapter 22-Loudspeaker Cluster Design Part 5-Electronic Audio Circuits and Equipment Chapter 23-Power Supplies Chapter 24-Amplifier Design Chapter 25-Preamplifiers and Mixers Chapter 26-Attenuators Chapter 27-Filters and Equalizers Chapter 28-Delay Chapter 29-Consoles, DAWs, and Computers Chapter 30-Audio Meters and Devices Part 6-Recording and Playback Chapter 31-Analog Disc PlaybackChapter 32-Magnetic Recording and PlaybackChapter 33-MIDIChapter 34-Optical Disc Formats for Audio Reproduction and Recording Part 7-Design Applications Chapter 35-DSP TechnologyChapter 36-Grounding and InterfacingChapter 37-System Gain StructureChapter 38-Sound System DesignChapter 39-Computer Aided Sound System DesignChapter 40-Designing for Speech IntelligibilityChapter 41-Virtual SystemsChapter 42-Digital Audio Interfacing and NetworkingChapter 43-Personal Monitor SystemsChapter 44-Message Repeaters, Museum and Tour Group Systems, Voice Evacuation/Mass Notification SystemsChapter 45-Interpretation SystemsChapter 46-Assistive Listening SystemsChapter 47-IntercomsChapter 48-The Fundamentals of Display Technologies Part 8-MeasurementsChapter 49-Test and MeasurementChapter 50-Fundamental and Units of Measurement Index