The #1 on-the-job audio engineering guide—now updated with the latest digital technologies!

Get clear answers to your every question on every aspect of audio engineering in the updated reference of choice of audio and video engineers and technicians, Standard Handbook of Audio Engineering, Second Edition.

You'll find no other source that covers such a broad range of audio principles and technologies--with an emphasis on practical applications, including design, production, installation, operation, and maintenance of recording studios, broadcast centers, and multimedia operations.

The accompanying CD-ROM contains extensive data files—sound industry specs, standards, diagrams, photos, and more, all keyed to relevant passages in the book.

Now fully updated for the first time in a decade, this trusted guide brings you completely up to speed with:

• CD, DVD, and other hot technologies
• Audio compression schemes, including MP3
• Sound transmission, reproduction, amplification, modification, detection, and storage equipment
• Broadcasting, music industry, multimedia, and Internet audio methods and tools
• Editing, voice-over, and post-production systems
• Noise reduction
• Test and measurement procedures and practices Accompanying CD-ROM packs extensive data files--sound, industry specs, standards, diagrams, photos, and more, all keyed to relevant passages in the book

Contents

1. Principles of Sound and Hearing
2. The Audio Spectrum
3. Architectural Acoustic Principles and Design Techniques
4. Microphone Devices and Systems
5. Sound Reproduction Devices and Systems
6. Digital Coding of Audio Signals
7. Compression Technologies for Audio
8. Audio Networking
9. Audio Recording Systems
10. Production Standards, Equipment, and Facility Design
11. Broadcast Transmission Systems
12. Radio Receivers
13. Standards and Practices

Index

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