Handbook for Sound Engineers

12 Chapter 1 of the original Audio Encyclopedia, the forerunner to this present volume, The Handbook for Sound Engineers. Robert ...

Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 13 In 1947, C.G. McProud published Audio Engineer- ing tha ...

14 Chapter 1 in Noise Control (a supplementary journal of the Acous- tical Society of America) in July 1958. At the AES ses- sio ...

Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 15 others—early insights into how we listen and perceive. ...

16 Chapter 1 broadcasting station and consequently a “clear chan- nel” that Ralph Townsley utilized to modulate 20–20,000 Hz low ...

Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 17 width to less than twice the frequency range of the aud ...

18 Chapter 1 To put all this in perspective (I worked at Altec at the time) I knew of no manufacturer in audio capable of making ...

Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 19 In my mind, these calculators revolutionized audio educ ...

20 Chapter 1 Bibliography Lynn Olson, The Soul of Sound, revised and updated in 2005—a superb, accurate, and insightful picture ...

21 Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics by Pat Brown 2.1 Introduction.................................................. ...

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Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics 23 2.1 Introduction Many people get involved in the audio trade prior to experiencing techni ...

24 Chapter 2 Fig. 2-2. The decibel scale is more resolute than the Bel scale. The decibel is always a power-related ratio. Elec- ...

Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics 25 unit. Relative levels are useful for live work. Absolute levels are useful for equipment ...

26 Chapter 2 This means that the amplifier can be 20 dB louder than a 1 watt amplifier. A mixer that can output 10 volts prior t ...

Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics 27 the lowest audible frequency of 20 Hz and increase it by a 2:1 ratio, the result is 40 Hz ...

28 Chapter 2 At the higher radio frequencies (VHF and UHF), the wavelengths become very short—1 meter or less. Antennas to recei ...

Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics 29 If the obstruction is smaller than the wavelength of the wave striking it, the wave diffr ...

30 Chapter 2 incident and reflected wave (many thousands of meters). At radio frequencies, reflected waves pose a huge problem, ...

Fundamentals of Audio and Acoustics 31 summation is determined by the relative phase of the individual waves. Let’s consider how ...