Handbook for Sound Engineers

(Wang) #1
Index 1761

Single-order networks
consoles 876
Sinusoidal waveform
gain structure 1227
Sir Humphry Davy 5
Sir Isaac Newton 38
Site noise survey
acoustical noise control 69
Site selection
acoustical noise control 69
Skating force
analog discs 1023
Skin depth
wire and cable 402
Skin effect
inductors 268
relays 386
wire and cable 402
SLARM™
what’s the ear for? 1638
SLARMSolution™
what’s the ear for? 1637
SLARMSolution™ applications
what’s the ear for? 1641
Slew rate
grounding and interfacing 1187
Slew-rate effects
consoles 844
Slew-rate limitations
consoles 836
SLM
test and measurement 1609
Sloping of tiers
acoustics for auditoriums and
concert halls 173
Slow-operate relays 380
SMA connector 471
Small room acoustics
anechoic chamber 141
angle of incidence 139
axial mode 128
Bolt footprint 133
Bonello criteria 132
comb filters 139
control room 140
damping factor 131
Energy Time Curve 136
Envelope Time Curve 136
LEDE 141
Lord Rayleigh 127


mean free path 135
MFP 135
modal bandwidth 131
modal distribution 131
modal potency 131
modal room resonances 128
modes in nonrectangular rooms
133
oblique mode 128
oblique room modes 128
particle velocity 127
precision listening rooms 140
rate of decay 129
reflection manipulation 138
reflective free zone 141
reverberation 135
room modes 127
room shape 138
rooms for entertainment 142
rooms for microphones 141
Sabine 135
small room design factors 140
summation of modal effect 134
tangential mode 128
tangential room modes 128
Small room design factors
small room acoustics 140
Small room models
acoustical modeling and aural-
ization 228
SMART
optical disc formats 1150
Smooth curved surfaces
acoustics for auditoriums and
concert halls 179
SMPTE
Audio transformers 284
MIDI 1128
VI meters 1005
SMPTE serial digital performance
specifications
wire and cable 424
SMPTE/MTC conversion
MIDI 1129
SMPTE-to-MTC converter
MIDI 1128
Snake cable
wire and cable 408
Snell’s Law
fiber optics 455

SNR
analog discs 1033
delay 810, 814
DSP technology 1171
gain structure 1226–1227
SNRnetic recording 1059
Soft failure
relays 377
Software sequencers
MIDI 1119
Solid angle (A)
units of measurement 1649
Solid state devices
alloy-junction transistor 325
alpha 329
avalanche diode 321
avalanche region 320
beta 329
breakdown region 320
diacs 323, 325
diodes 320
doping agent 318
double-diffused epitaxial mesa
transistor 326
drift-field transistor 325
field effect transistor 326
germanium 317
germanium crystals 319
grown-junction transistor 325
insulated-gate transistor 327
LED 325
light activated silicon controlled
325
mesa transistors 325
microalloy diffused transistor
325
MOSFET transistor 327
noise diodes 322
n-type germanium 318
opto-coupled solid state silicon
controller rectifier 325
peak-inverse-voltage 320
peak-reverse-voltage 320
planar transistor 326
reverse blocking thyristor 322
reverse-recovery time 324
SCR 322, 324
selenium rectifiers 320
semiconductors 317
Shockley breakover diode 322
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