The Audio Expert: Everything You Need to Know About Audio [Paperback]

Part 1: Audio Defined? 1. Audio Basics? 2. Audio Fidelity, Measurements, and Myths? 3. Hearing, Perception, and Artifact Audibility? 4. Gozintas and Gozoutas? Part 2: Analog and Digital Recording, Processing, and Methods? 5. Mixers, Buses, Routing, and Summing? 6. Recording Devices and Methods? 7. Mixing Devices and Methods? 8. Digital Audio Basics? 9. Dynamics Processors? 10. Frequency Processors? 11. Time Domain Processors? 12. Pitch and Time Manipulation Processors? 13. Other Audio Processors? 14. Synthesizers? Part 3: Transducers? 15. Microphones and Pickups? 16. Loudspeakers and Earphones? Part 4: Room Acoustics, Treatment, and Monitoring? 17. Acoustic Basics? 18. Room Shapes, Modes, and Isolation? 19. Acoustic Treatment? 20. Room Measuring? Part 5: Electronics? 21. Basic Electronics in 60 Minutes? 22. Test Procedures? Part 6: Musical Instruments? 23. Musical Instruments

This newly updated third edition of The Audio Expert offers a comprehensive reference book that covers all aspects of audio. The book includes both practical and theoretical explanations, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math.

This newly updated third edition of The Audio Expert offers a comprehensive reference book that covers all aspects of audio. The book includes both practical and theoretical explanations, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math.

Written for people who want to understand audio at a technical level without needing an engineering degree, it uses an easy-to-read conversational tone as well as more than 400 figures and photos to augment the printed text. Thoroughly revised, the third edition includes updated terminology for clarity and accuracy, rl3%