Audio Engineering: Know It All

Know it All
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-85617-526-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 936 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1568 g

Reihe: Newnes Know it All

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf!

Audio engineers need to master a wide area of topics in order to excel. The Audio Engineering Know It All covers every angle, including digital signal processing, power supply design, microphone and loudspeaker technology as well as audio compression.

Zielgruppe

Electronics Engineers; Audio Engineers and Technicians

Autoren/Hrsg.

Self, Douglas

Duncan, Ben

Sinclair, Ian (Long-standing technical author, UK)

Hood, John Linsley

Singmin, Andrew

Davis, Don

Patronis, Eugene

Watkinson, John

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Akustik, Tontechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Fernsehtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Fundamentals of Sound 1. Audio Principles 2. Measurement 3. Acoustic Environment

Part II. Audio Electronics 4. Components 5. Power supply design

Part III Preamplifiers and Amplifiers 6. Introduction to Audio Amplification 7. Preamplifiers and input signals 8. Interfacing and processing 9. Audio amplifiers 10. Audio amplifier 11. Valve (tube-based) amplifiers 12. Negative feedback 13. Noise and grounding

Part IV Digital Audio 14. Digital audio fundamentals 15. Representation of Audio Signals 16.Compact disc 17. Digital audio recording basics 18. Digital audio interfaces 19. Data compression 20. Digital audio production 21. Other Digital Audio Devices

Part V. Microphone and Loudspeaker Technology 22. Microphone technology 23. Loudspeakers 24. Loudspeaker enclosures 25. Headphones

Part VI. Sound Reproduction Systems 26. Tape Recording 27. Recording consoles 28. Video synchronization 29. Room acoustics

Part VII Audio Test and Measurement 30. Fundamentals and instruments

Über Autor(innen)

Davis, Don
Don Davis and his wife, Carolyn, founded Synergetic Audio Concepts in 1972, he later retired in 1995. Don is a Senior member of the IEEE, Fellow of the AES and has received the Heyser Award, Life Time Achievement Award from NSCA and from USITT, Recognition for participation in the Brussels World Fair 1958 from the U.S. Dept. of State, and for the U.S. Exhibition in Moscow in 1959.

Self, Douglas
Douglas Self has a worldwide reputation as a leading authority on audio amplifier design, but it is perhaps less well known that he has devoted a good deal of study to small-signal circuitry, including many years as the chief design engineer at one of the major mixing console manufacturers, where his achievements included winning a Design Council Award. His rigorous, skeptical, and thoroughly practical approach to design has been applied to the small signal area as well, and some of the results to be found in this book.
Senior designer of high-end audio amplifiers and contributor to Electronics World magazine, Douglas has worked with many top audio names, including Cambridge Audio, TAG-McLaren Audio, and Soundcraft Electronics.

Singmin, Andrew
Most recently Quality Assurance Manager at Accelerix in Ottawa, Canada. Currently working as an ISO 9000 Quality Assurance Manager for Conexant Systems Inc. in Ottawa, Canada.Over 25 years of experience in electronics/semiconductor device technology.Has written for Popular Electronics and the Electronics Handbook, as well asBeginning Analog Electronics Through Projects, 2E and Beginning Digital Electronics Through Projects, Modern Electronics Soldering Techniques,Dictionary of Modern Electronics Technology, and Practical Audio Amplifiercircuit Projects

Patronis, Eugene
Eugene Patronis is Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He has also served as an industrial and governmental consultant in the fields of acoustics and electronics.

Watkinson, John
John Watkinson is an independent international consultant in advanced applications of electronics to audiovisual and avionics systems. He is a Fellow of the AES, a member of the Society of Expert Witnesses, and the British Computer Society and is a chartered information systems practitioner. He presents lectures, seminars and training courses worldwide. He is the author of many other Elsevier books, including The Art of DigitalVideo, An Introduction to Digital Video, Convergence in Broadcast and Communications Media, Television Fundamentals and The Art of the Helicopter.

Hood, John Linsley
John Linsley Hood (1925-2004) was head of the electronics research laboratories at British cellophane, for nearly 25 years. He worked on many instrumentation projects including width gauges and moisture meters, and made several inventions which were patented under the Cellophane name. Prior to his work at British Cellophane he worked in the electronics laboratory of the Department of Atomic Energy at Sellafield, Cumbria. He studied at Reading University after serving in the military as a radar mechanic. Linsley Hood published more than 30 technical feature articles in Wireless World magazine and its later incarnation Electronics World. He also contributed to numerous magazines including Electronics Today.

Duncan, Ben
Ben Duncan is well known to many users of audio power amplifiers around the world, both professional and domestic, through his hundreds of articles, reviews and research papers on music technology in the UK and US press, and through his part in creating several notable professional power amplifiers.Since 1977, he has been involved in the design of over 70 innovative, high-end audio products used by recording and broadcast studios, on stages, in clubs and by the most critical domestic listeners - as well as creating bespoke equipment for top musicians. Born in London, he has travelled widely but has lived mainly in Lincolnshire, home of his family for over 150 years. Outside a wide spectrum of music and festivals his interests include managing an organic garden, woodland and nature reserve; industrial archaeology, historic building restoration, psychic research, and 20th century political, social and engineering history. He is twice co-author of the book Rock Hardware in which he has chronicled the history of rock'n'roll PA.