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Practical Instruction on the Art and Science of Acoustic Design and Architecture
Build your own acoustic environments such as recording studios, control rooms, and home listening rooms with expert insights from two engineering professionals. Fully expanded to cover the latest methods and software tools, Master Handbook of Acoustics, Fifth Edition presents clear explanations of acoustic phenomena and provides a hands-on approach to room design. Learn how to perform acoustic measurements, choose room dimensions, assign speaker placement, analyze response curves, and design and install sound absorbers and diffusers. You will also find details on how to fine-tune room reverberation, minimize external noise, and apply psychoacoustic concepts.
Master Handbook of Acoustics, Fifth Edition explains how to:
- Determine how sound propagates in open and enclosed spaces
- Measure sound-pressure levels and work with decibels
- Analyze the characteristics of room modal resonances
- Treat rooms for optimal early reflections, reverberation, and diffusion
- Minimize acoustic distortion, comb-filter effects, and HVAC interference
- Construct high-quality stereo and surround-sound listening rooms
- Design personal and professional recording studios and control rooms
- Understand the acoustics of auditoriums and concert halls
- Optimize room designs using measurement, modeling, and auralization software
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The goal of this book is to apply the principles of acoustics to the audio arts. This involves serving as an interpreter of major trends and the literature for students and practitioners in the audio field. Along with covering the more theoretical aspects of acoustics, the book applies the theory to the design of specialized audio spaces such as the home listening room, the control room, and the multi-track-recording studio.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is very well explained but lacks that which some may hope for from a book entitled 'The Master Handbook of Acoustics'.
If you are an 'acoustic enthusiast' and a knowledge of acoustic concepts is important to you, then, this would be worth buying - maybe an undergraduate physics/engineering student might also benefit from its approach.
However, if you are someone that wishes to go beyond, getting to the heart of problems like; noise/vibration control and acoustics, you should go for something like Frank Fahy's Engineering Acoustics, Kinsler and Frey, or, if you are up to it!, Pierce...
If you are an 'acoustic enthusiast' and a knowledge of acoustic concepts is important to you, then, this would be worth buying - maybe an undergraduate physics/engineering student might also benefit from its approach.
However, if you are someone that wishes to go beyond, getting to the heart of problems like; noise/vibration control and acoustics, you should go for something like Frank Fahy's Engineering Acoustics, Kinsler and Frey, or, if you are up to it!, Pierce...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has prooved an excellent guide to help me understand diffusion, diffraction, modal ringing, everything you can think of regarding acoustics is in here. I've learned a great deal about modal ringing and how to create effective bass trapping for my recording studio, it even tells you how to build a diffuser! (if you have the DIY skills). Before reading this book I knew virtually nothing about acoustics, this has given me a solid understanding of the most important aspects, can't fault it at all, it does exactly what it says!
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full of tech details
i had expected more like a design value from the book but it has the physics of sound and whats related with it. Read more
Published on 8 April 2010 by K. Pehlvanolu
OK in some respects flawed in others
As another reviewer has said this is hardly a 'Master' handbook but it does have some useful and interesting things to say to the beginner. Read more
Published on 1 July 2008 by J. Wells
Fantastic
At over 600 pages, you certainly get your money's worth with this book. It is replete with information on the design of acoutical spaces, noise isolation, reverb time, control of... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2004 by Mr. P. D. Maunder
Outstanding!!!!!
To say that the Master Handbook of Acoustics is an 'incredibly comprehensive work' it's like saying that the Beatles were 'some band from Liverpool'. Without a doubt, a must-have. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 1999
Perfect for anyone looking to upgrade their acoustics palet
This book can be a tremendous asset to anyone interested in cleaning up their audio listening invironment. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 1998
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