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Broadcast sound technology /
Broadcast Sound Technology provides an explanation of the underlying principles of modern audio technology. Organized into 21 chapters, the book first describes the basic sound; behavior of sound waves; aspects of hearing, harming, and charming the ear; room acoustics; reverberation; microphones; ph...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Boston :
Butterworths,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Broadcast Sound Technology; Copyright Page; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Basic sound; What are sound waves?; The velocity of sound waves; Wavelength; Chapter 2. The behaviour of sound waves; Reflection and diffraction; The inverse square law; Decibels; Measuring sound pressure; Chapter 3. Aspects of hearing; The ear and the hearing process; The ear's response to different frequencies; Loudness and the phon; Chapter 4. Harming and charming the ear; Hearing impairment; Pitch; Harmonics; Timbre (pronounced 'tarmbre'); The fallibility of the ear.
- Chapter 5. Room acousticsSound insulation; Room resonances; Chapter 6. Reverberation; Reverberation time; Sabine's formula; Optimum reverberation times; Sound absorbers; Chapter 7. Microphones; Transducers; Moving-coil microphones; Ribbon microphones; Electrostatic microphones; Electret and RF electrostatic microphones; Directional characteristics; Chapter 8. Phantom power; 'Standard phantom', '48 V phantom'; 'A-B powering', 'modulation lead powering'; Chapter 9. Loudspeakers; The radiating surface; The transducer; The enclosure; Multiple unit loudspeakers; Specialized loudspeakers.
- Listening testsChapter 10. Basic stereo; How we locate sounds; Creating artificial time-of-arrival differences; Production of stereo signals; Coincident pair arrangements; Coincident pairs and panpots-applications; Spaced microphones; Compatibility: the M and S signals; M/S microphones; Headphones and stereo; Transmission of stereo (radio); Chapter 11. Monitoring the audio signal; The dynamic range of an audio signal; Zero level; The VU (volume unit) meter; The PPM (peak programme meter); Other types of programme measuring device; Stereo PPMs; Interpreting stereo PPM readings.
- Chapter 12. Processing the audio signalEqualization; Compressor/limiters; Noise gates; Chapter 13. Sockets and symbols; Jacks and sockets; Symbols; Chapter 14. Sound desks (mixing consoles); The basic functions of a sound desk; A typical channel; Groups; Output stages; 'Echo'; PA and foldback; Pre-fade listen (PFL) and after-fade listen (AFL); Clean feed; Multiway working; Deriving mono from stereo; Communications; Computer assisted mixing (CAM); Assignable facilities; Chapter 15. Digital audio; Sampling; Quantizing; Bits (binary digits); Bit-rate (bits per second); Error detection.
- Chapter 16. Further digitsTime division multiplex (TDM); Bit-rate reduction; Basic sound-in-syncs (SiS); NICAM 728; Chapter 17. Analogue tape recording and reproduction; The recording process; The replay process; Record and replay equalization; Azimuth; Full-size professional machines; Cassette machines; Cartridge machines; Track formats; Chapter 18. Digital recording and reproduction; Principles of digital tape recording and replay; The DASH system; R-DAT; The future of tape recording?; Compact discs; Oversampling; Chapter 19. Noise reduction; Dolby A; Dolby B; Dolby C.