Sound Systems: Design and Optimization

Name: Sound Systems: Design and Optimization
Brand: Taylor & Francis
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Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment

By Bob McCarthy

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Sound Systems: Design and Optimization offers an accessible and detailed guide to the practical behaviour of sound systems. This third edition features updated methodologies and techniques reflecting the latest trends in audio. Expanded content includes clearer explanations, streamlined organisation, and comprehensive case studies based on Bob McCarthy's award-winning work. The book focuses exclusively on modern tools and strategies to help readers refine their sound system design and optimisation skills.
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This book is ideal for sound engineers, audio professionals, and students aiming to deepen their understanding of sound system design and optimisation using contemporary technologies and practical case studies.

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Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides an accessible and unique perspective on the behaviour of sound systems in the practical world. The third edition reflects current trends in the audio field, thereby providing readers with the newest methodologies and techniques.

In this greatly expanded new edition, you’ll find clearer explanations, a more streamlined organisation, 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 specialised guidance needed to perfect your design skills.

This book helps you:

Improve your design and optimisation decisions by understanding how audiences perceive reinforced sound.
Use modern analysers and prediction programs to select speaker placement, equalisation, delay, and level settings based on how loudspeakers interact in the space.
Define speaker array configurations and design strategies that maximise 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415731010

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 March 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: 39 Tables, color; 513 Line drawings, color; 1 Halftones, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1811g

Pages: 600

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About the Author

Bob McCarthy is the director of system optimization at Meyer Sound and president of Alignment & Design, Inc. As a developer of FFT analysis systems, he pioneered the methods for tuning modern speaker systems that have since become standard practice in the industry. He is the foremost educator in the field of sound system optimization and has conducted training courses worldwide for over thirty years. Bob received the USITT Distinguished Achiever in Sound Design in 2014. His clients have included esteemed companies such as Cirque du Soleil and Walt Disney Entertainment, as well as many of the world’s best sound designers, including Jonathan Deans, Tony Meola, Andrew Bruce, and Tom Clark.

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