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.

Preface Trademark Acknowledgments Contributors Part 1–Introduction to Acoustics Chapter 1–Audio and Acoustic DNA—Past and Present Don and Carolyn Davis Chapter 2–Subjective Methods for Evaluating Sound Quality Ken Pohlmann Chapter 3–Psychoacoustics Peter Xinya Zhang Chapter 4–Hearing Physiology–Disorders–Conservation S. Benjamin Kanters Chapter 5–Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics Pat Brown Part 2–Acoustics Chapter 6–Small Room Acoustics Doug Jones Chapter 7–Acoustical Noise Control Doug Jones Chapter 8–Acoustical Treatment for Indoor Areas Jeff Szymanski Chapter 9–Room-acoustical Fundamentals for Auditoriums and Concert Halls Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert and Hans-Peter Tennhardt Chapter 10–Worship Styles in the Christian Church Doug Jones Chapter 11–Stadiums and Outdoor Venues Ron Baker and Jack Wrightson Chapter 12–Surround Sound for Cinema Steve Barbar Chapter 13–Acoustical Modeling and Auralization Dominique J. Chéenne Part 3–Electronic Components Chapter 14–Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors Glen Ballou Chapter 15–Audio Transformers Bill Whitlock Chapter 16–Tubes, Discrete Solid State Devices, and Integrated Circuits Glen Ballou, Leslie B. Tyler, and Wayne Kirkwood Chapter 17–Heatsinks and Relays Glen Ballou and Henry Villaume Chapter 18–Transmission Techniques: Wire and Cable Steve Lampen and Glen Ballou Chapter 19–Transmission Techniques: Fiber Optics Ron Ajemian Part 4–Electroacoustic Devices Chapter 20–Microphones Glen Ballou and Joe Ciaudelli Chapter 21–Loudspeakers Tom Danley and Doug Jones Chapter 22–Loudspeaker Cluster Design Ralph Heinz Part 5–Electronic Audio Circuits and Equipment Chapter 23–Power Supplies Glen Ballou Chapter 24–Amplifier Design Bob Cordell Chapter 25–Preamplifiers and Mixers Ray Rayburn and Bill Whitlock Chapter 26–Attenuators Glen Ballou Chapter 27–Filters and Equalizers Steve McManus Chapter 28–Delay Steve McManus Chapter 29–Consoles, DAWs, and Computers Steve Dove Chapter 30–Audio Meters and Devices Glen Ballou Part 6–Recording and Playback Chapter 31–Analog Disc Playback George Alexandrovich and Glen Ballou Chapter 32–Magnetic Recording and Playback Doug Jones Chapter 33–MIDI David Mules Huber Chapter 34–Optical Disc Formats for Audio Reproduction and Recording Ken Pohlmann Part 7–Design Applications Chapter 35–DSP Technology Dr. Craig Richardson Chapter 36–Grounding and Interfacing Bill Whitlock Chapter 37–System Gain Structure Pat Brown Chapter 38–Sound System Design Pat Brown Chapter 39–Computer Aided Sound System Design Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert and Stefan Feistel Chapter 40–Designing for Speech Intelligibility Peter Mapp Chapter 41–Virtual Systems Ray Rayburn Chapter 42–Digital Audio Interfacing and Networking Ray Rayburn Chapter 43–Personal Monitor Systems Gino Sigismondi Chapter 44–Message Repeaters, Museum and Tour Group Systems, Voice Evacuation/Mass Notification Systems Glen Ballou and Hardy Martin Chapter 45–Interpretation Systems Glen Ballou Chapter 46–Assistive Listening Systems Glen Ballou Chapter 47–Intercoms Glen Ballou Chapter 48–The Fundamentals of Display Technologies Alan C. Brawn Part 8–Measurements Chapter 49–Test and Measurement Pat Brown Chapter 50–Fundamental and Units of Measurement Glen Ballou Index

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.