Standard Handbook of Audio and Radio Engineering
2nd Edition
Published on 16. November 2001
Book
Hardback
1100 pages
978-0-07-006717-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is the number 1 on-the-job audio engineering guide - updated with the latest digital technologies. The reference of choice of audio and video engineers and technicians, this updated classic brings you page after page of clear answers to any question that arises on sound theory, equipment, recording, storage, transmission, and standards - including solutions for the latest digital technologies. For design, production, installation, operation, and maintenance of recording studios, broadcast centers, and multimedia operations, you'll find no other source that covers such a broad range of audio technologies - with an emphasis on practical applications - than the handbook.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; nearly 1000 pages and 500 clear illustrations providing answers on all aspects of audio engineering, plus a CD-ROM featuring over 1000 additional pages of reference material.
Packed with career-building information on everything from basic principles and formulas to the latest FCC rules, the handbook features more than 100 articles, written by foremost experts, on 15 major topics. What's more, the accompanying CD-ROM gives you extensive data files - sound, industry specs, standards,diagrams, photos, and more, all keyed to relevant passages in the book. If you want the best, clearest, and most professional answers you can find on audio principles, technologies, design, equipment, standards, and methods, you've come to the right place. "Standard Handbook of Audio and Radio Engineering" is just that - the benchmark resource for audio engineers and technicians at work - now fully in sync with the fast-changing world of audio today.
Packed with career-building information on everything from basic principles and formulas to the latest FCC rules, the handbook features more than 100 articles, written by foremost experts, on 15 major topics. What's more, the accompanying CD-ROM gives you extensive data files - sound, industry specs, standards,diagrams, photos, and more, all keyed to relevant passages in the book. If you want the best, clearest, and most professional answers you can find on audio principles, technologies, design, equipment, standards, and methods, you've come to the right place. "Standard Handbook of Audio and Radio Engineering" is just that - the benchmark resource for audio engineers and technicians at work - now fully in sync with the fast-changing world of audio today.
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
700 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
1751 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-006717-2 (9780070067172)
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Persons
Jerry Whitaker is Vice President of Standards Development at the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), Washington, D.C. He was previously President of Technical Press, a consulting company based in the San Jose area. Whitaker has been involved in various aspects of the electronics industry for over 30 years, with specialization in communications. He has lectured extensively on the topic of electronic systems design, installation, and maintenance. He is the former editorial director and associate publisher of Broadcast Engineering and Video Systems magazines, and a former radio station chief engineer and television news producer. Mr. Whitaker is a Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and an SBE-certified professional broadcast engineer. He is also a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Blair Benson, deceased, was well known in the field for both this book and his Standard Handbook of Video and Television Engineering. Mr. Benson was a leader in audio and video system design and implementation for many decades, and an architect of the networked TV and radio systems we enjoy today.
Blair Benson, deceased, was well known in the field for both this book and his Standard Handbook of Video and Television Engineering. Mr. Benson was a leader in audio and video system design and implementation for many decades, and an architect of the networked TV and radio systems we enjoy today.
Content
Section 1: Principles of Sound and Hearing Section 2: The Audio Spectrum Section 3: Architectural Acoustic Principles and Design Techniques Section 4: Microphone Devices and Systems Section 5: Sound Reproduction Devices and Systems Section 6: Digital Coding of Audio Signals Section 7: Compression Technologies for Audio Section 8: Audio Networking Section 9: Audio Recording Systems Section 10: Production Standards, Equipment, and Facility Design Section 11: Broadcast Transmission Systems Section 12: Radio Receivers Section 13: Standards and Practices Section 14: Index Listings