Audio Anecdotes: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Digital Audio (Hardcover)

Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Measurement -- Sound Pressure Levels: “Mine Goes to 11!” /Ken Greenebaum -- Understanding the Decibel /Hersham Fouad -- Sound Propagation /Ken Greenebaum -- 2 Perception -- Controlling the Perceptual Organization of Sound /Albert S. Bregman and Wieslaw Woszczyk -- Perceivable Auditory Latencies /Derek DiFilippo and Ken Greenebaum -- Introduction to the Theory of Signal Detection /Derek DiFilippo and Ken Greenebaum -- 3 Recording -- Understanding Microphones /John Klepko -- How to Make Great Voice Recordings /Dex Manley -- Instrument (and Vocal) Recording Tips and Tricks /Daniel J. Levitin -- 4 Synthesis -- Retro Game Sound: What We Can Learn from 1980s Era Synthesis /David Thiel -- Introduction to Physical Modeling /Perry R. Cook -- Timbre Trees: Integrating Sounds and Images /James K. Hahn -- 5 Signal Processing -- Auditory Masking in Audio Compression /Henrique S. Malvar -- Rate Conversion /Tor A. Ramstad -- A Framework for Software Modem Experimentation /Ben Luna -- 6 Computer Techniques -- Simple Interfaces: Small (Hello) World /Ken Greenebaum -- RampTest: Quantifying Audio Performance /Ken Greenebaum -- Audio File Formats: A Formal Description-Based Approach /Ken Greenebaum, Christian Hresko, Alexandros Eleftheriadis, and Danny Hong -- 7 Computer Tools -- Octave and Gnuplot: An Audio Detective’s Best Friends /Phil Rutschman -- PABLIO: A Simple Audio I/O Library /Ken Greenebaum, Phil Burk, and Ross Bencina -- PortAudio: An API for Portable Real-Time Audio /Ross Bencina and Phil Burk -- Using FLAVOR for (Media) Bitstream Representation /Alexandros Eleftheriadis and Danny Hong -- 8 Human Experience -- Designing a Movie for Sound /Randy Thom -- Listening to Nature: Hearing is More Than Meets the Eye /Gordon Hempton -- Understanding Hearing Losses and Hearing Gains /Adrienne Ross -- Glossary of Audio Terms -- Contributor Biographies.