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Ambisonics A Practical 3D Audio Theory for Recording, Studio Production, Sound Reinforcement, and Virtual Reality

Title
Ambisonics [electronic resource] : A Practical 3D Audio Theory for Recording, Studio Production, Sound Reinforcement, and Virtual Reality / by Franz Zotter, Matthias Frank.
ISBN
9783030172077
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XIV, 210 p.) 171 illus., 35 illus. in color.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
This open access book provides a concise explanation of the fundamentals and background of the surround sound recording and playback technology Ambisonics. It equips readers with the psychoacoustical, signal processing, acoustical, and mathematical knowledge needed to understand the inner workings of modern processing utilities, special equipment for recording, manipulation, and reproduction in the higher-order Ambisonic format. The book comes with various practical examples based on free software tools and open scientific data for reproducible research. The book’s introductory section offers a perspective on Ambisonics spanning from the origins of coincident recordings in the 1930s to the Ambisonic concepts of the 1970s, as well as classical ways of applying Ambisonics in first-order coincident sound scene recording and reproduction that have been practiced since the 1980s. As, from time to time, the underlying mathematics become quite involved, but should be comprehensive without sacrificing readability, the book includes an extensive mathematical appendix. The book offers readers a deeper understanding of Ambisonic technologies, and will especially benefit scientists, audio-system and audio-recording engineers. In the advanced sections of the book, fundamentals and modern techniques as higher-order Ambisonic decoding, 3D audio effects, and higher-order recording are explained. Those techniques are shown to be suitable to supply audience areas ranging from studio-sized to hundreds of listeners, or headphone-based playback, regardless whether it is live, interactive, or studio-produced 3D audio material.
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Springer ENIN.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2019
Series
Springer Topics in Signal Processing, 19
Springer Topics in Signal Processing, 19
Contents
XY, MS, and First-order Ambisonics
Auditory events of multi-loudspeaker playback
Amplitude panning using vector bases
Ambisonic amplitude panning in higher orders
Signal flow and effects in Ambisonic productions
Higher-order Ambisonic microphones and the wave equation (linear, lossless)
Compact spherical loudspeaker arrays
5D room impulse responses + virtual IKO.
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