Description
Sound Systems Design and Optimization - Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment 3rd Edition By Bob McCarthy (eBook)
Sound Systems: Design and Optimization provides an accessible and unique perspective on the behavior 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 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.
Sound Systems: Design and Optimization (3rd Edition, 2016) by Bob McCarthy is a comprehensive guide to modern loudspeaker system design and alignment, focusing on achieving spatial uniformity. Published by Routledge, it covers FFT analysis, line array design, and subwoofer alignment with, detailed, 600-page content including color illustrations.
Key Aspects of the 3rd Edition (2016):
Comprehensive Coverage: Focuses on the "how" and "why" of speaker interaction with the listening space.
Techniques: Provides step-by-step procedures for measurement mic placement, equalization, delay, and level settings.
Tools: Emphasizes modern analyzers and prediction programs for system optimization.
Updated Content: Includes expanded coverage of modern sound technologies and case studies.
Author: Written by Bob McCarthy, a renowned expert in sound system design.
The book is considered a critical resource for audio professionals, consultants, and students looking to master sound reinforcement systems. The 3rd edition's, detailed, 600-page content including color illustrations is available through CRC Press, and Merlijn van Veen also contributed to the work, ensuring it covers the latest advancements in the live sound industry.