Sound Systems: Design And Optimization, Bob Mccarthy

In this greatly expanded new edition, you'll find clearer explanations, a more streamlined organization, increased coverage of current technologies and comprehensive case studies of the author's award-winning work in the field.
As the only book devoted exclusively to modern tools and techniques in this emerging field, Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides the specialized guidance needed to perfect your design skills.

This book helps you:

• Improve your design and optimization decisions by understanding how audiences perceive reinforced sound
• Use modern analyzers and prediction programs to select speaker placement, equalization, delay and level settings based on how loudspeakers interact in the space
• Define speaker array configurations and design strategies that maximize the potential for spatial uniformity
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the tools and techniques required to generate a design that will create a successful transmission/reception model

Using over 50 years' experience, author Philip Newell provides detail on the practical aspects of recording in various environments, not only exploring the complex issues relating to the acoustics but also providing real-world solutions. While the book contains detailed discussions about performing rooms, control rooms, and mobile studios, concepts of the infrastructures are also discussed, because no studio can perform optimally unless the technical and human requirements are adequately provided for. In this new edition, sound for cinema provides a platform for highlighting many, wider electroacoustic topics in a way that is relatively easy to visualise. The way in which sound and vision interact is an important aspect of many modern multimedia formats.

The new edition includes:

• A new Chapter 22 that will thoroughly reflect recently published SMPTE investigations which will drastically impact standards for cinema sound;
• The inclusion of new academic research and its practical applications;
• An entire new illustrated chapter on room construction principles; and
• The consolidation of ideas which were only emerging when the earlier editions were published.