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The Online Guitar Store - Sound Systems: Design and Optimization: Modern Techniques and Tools for Sound System Design and Alignment
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Manufacturer: Focal Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3893
EAN: 9780240520209
ISBN: 0240520203
Label: Focal Press
Manufacturer: Focal Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2007-02-19
Publisher: Focal Press
Studio: Focal Press
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With this definitive guide to sound reinforcement design and optimization, Bob McCarthy shares his expert knowledge and effective methodology developed from decades of field and teaching experience. This book is written for the field professional as well as the consultant or student, in a clear and easy-to-read style and illustrated with color diagrams and screenshots throughout. McCarthy's unique guide reveals the proven techniques to ensure that your sound system design can be optimized for maximum uniformity over the space.
The book follows the audio signal path from the mix console to the audience and provides comprehensive information as to how the sound is spread over the listening area. The complex nature of the physics of speaker interaction over a listening space is revealed in terms readily understandable to audio professionals. Complex speaker arrays are broken down systematically and the means to design systems that are capable of being fully optimized for maximum spatial uniformity is shown.
The methods of alignment are shown, including measurement mic placement, and step-by-step recipes for equalization, delay setting, level setting, speaker positioning and acoustic treatment. These principles and techniques are applicable to the simplest and most complex systems alike, from the single speaker to the multi-element "line array."
* The first book devoted exclusively to the emerging field of sound system optimization using modern tools and practices.
* Offers you expert guidance on the popular tools of the trade, including line arrays and digital signal processors
* Color images and diagrams throughout aid understanding and clearly illustrate topics within the book
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Summary: This Covers It All
Comment: If you have been searching for a concise source explaining today's concert speaker array systems and its associated control technology this text will fill the bill. Although not an easy (nor lite) read, this is one of the best written subject focused texts that I had the pleasure to read (and re-read) in a number of years. Exceptional diagrams and charts.
Bill K - Sound Management Inc.
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Summary: This book is a treasure
Comment: This is not a book for beginners. But for the rest of us, it's the best book you can buy on this subject. In most audio literature you'll find the same old info you have already read in other books or know by experience. Not so here: this book is a treasure!
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Summary: Get serious...
Comment: By Bob McCarthy.
This is a essential toll to your knowledge.
Even if you're unconversant with the high techniques on sound design and alignment. But prepare yourself to spend a lot of time on this book.
Get serious....
Thak you Mr.McCarthy.
Carlos Guinle.
[Milton Nascimento & Jobim Trio FOH enginner]
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Summary: Very readable and entertaining
Comment: What surprised me most about this book was how readable it was. OK, I know it's not going on Oprah's book club list, but I was expecting a book that I wouldn't be able to understand beyond certain basics. Kind of like my 10th grade math book. But the way McCarthy works his way through the subject was well organized, clear AND at time humorous. I think that it's an excellent book that most sound engineers are going to want on their bookshelf.
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Summary: Clearing the cobwebs
Comment: I'm can honestly say, this book is changing (the more I read) how I think about designing the systems I've been setting up for the last 17 years.
I am so glad I have this tool.
Peter Thompson- Thunder Audio Inc. Detroit MI
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