Audio Technology, Music, and Media From Sound Wave to Reproduction
This book provides a true A to Z of recorded sound, from its inception to the present day, outlining how technologies, techniques, and social attitudes have changed things, noting what is good and what is less good. The author starts by discussing the physics of sound generation and propagation. He...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- How the war changed audio
- The V record label for US troops
- Stereo sound, multi-channel sound, film sound and more
- The physics of sound
- The advent of tape and moving coil microphones
- The development of microphone techniques
- Multi-channel Tape recorders
- The advent of the Big Studios
- The record business
- The Maverick producers and freelance engineers
- The big time with 24 track everywhere and heaps of signal processing
- How the technology changed the music
- Classical music recording is effectively broken by the technology
- Digital arrives, but something is not right
- A to D and D to A convertors and compressors in the digital domain
- High resolution Digital recording and re-sampling
- Lossless compression
- The revolution in playback technology
- The social revolution in consumed music
- The change in musicians
- How to do things properly
- The use of Digital Audio Workstations and the impact on music
- Why recordings sound worse now than they did inthe 50s and 60s
- Music and Civilisation and why it is important
- Where is the future archive for serious music being produced now
- Are advances in technology always good
- Teaching Audio Engineers
- The future
- Conclusion