Mon, 02 Oct 2006
Sound System Engineering
Don Davis, Eugene Patronis jr.,
Sound System Engineering, 3rd Ed,
Focal Press
This is just the book you want if you want or need
to go beyond your collection of mental and other lore
about sound systems and their deployment in the wild.
What we have here is a fiercely scientific approach
to everything from sound progagation to signal processing.
The first chapter starts off with the relevant maths which
is then used to enlighten you on every aspect of this
interesting field -- large room acoustics, loudspeakers
and loudspeaker arrays, mics, audio measurements, to name
just a few. The book finishes with a "putting it all together"
chapter followed by one on wiring practices, which most
people will find useful, and which doesn't have equations,
just useful pictures.
I imagine there will be a few students that blanche when
they see this book just because of the common effect of
equation-cringe but, as usual, a logical process of understanding
is quite easily doable if a calm attitude is adopted!
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