Handbook for Sound Engineers

1432 Chapter 37 As discussed, isolating earphones are the preferred type for personal monitors, because they provide maximum iso ...

Personal Monitor Systems 1433 incoming sound waves, and transfers those vibrations to the ossicles. The last of these bones, the ...

and 100 dB SPL in the right ear results in the perception of 106 dB SPL. Using only one earphone would require 106 dB SPL at tha ...

Personal Monitor Systems 1435 feedback and interference with the house mix. As with most new technologies, an adjustment period ...

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1437 Chapter 38 Virtual Systems by Ray Rayburn 38.1 The Design of Sound Systems................................................. ...

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Virtual Systems 1439 38.1 The Design of Sound Systems Sound systems are made of three primary components: Input transducers. Si ...

1440 Chapter 38 reduced dynamic range when compared to the indi- vidual building blocks making them up. 38.1.2 The Introduction ...

Virtual Systems 1441 Crossovers, system equalizers, and delays are some of the more common examples of this class of device. Unt ...

1442 Chapter 38 38.2.3 Integration of Digital Products into Analog Systems 38.2.3.1 Dynamic Range The dynamic range of analog sy ...

Virtual Systems 1443 tem. This is not the optimal way, however, to integrate digital processing into a system. All devices, anal ...

1444 Chapter 38 degrade the quality of the audio. Of course, there are different degrees of perfection available in SRCs at corr ...

Virtual Systems 1445 Loudspeaker processors are another common example of integrated digital subsystems. Such devices might incl ...

1446 Chapter 38 frequency to the midrange speaker. This may often be followed by a multiband parametric equalizer used to smooth ...

Virtual Systems 1447 ferent physical architecture, Fig. 38-6A. MediaMatrix was based on a PC that supports digital audio process ...

1448 Chapter 38 ganged, and the settings of many controls may be recalled using presets or subpresets. Presets recall the settin ...

Virtual Systems 1449 Let’s take our previous example of a loudspeaker processor with three inputs, each optimized for a differen ...

1450 Chapter 38 Figure 38-9. Examples of physical controls for virtual sound processors. Figure 38-10. QSC software showing virt ...

Virtual Systems 1451 delayed signal, while there is no delay on the side chain input, is known as a look-ahead limiter. By setti ...