Overview
- Offers a deeper understanding of Ambisonic technologies
- Explains current processing utilities and special equipment
- Provides all required practical-psychoacoustical, signal-processing, acoustical, and mathematical knowledge
Part of the book series: Springer Topics in Signal Processing (STSP, volume 19)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“The subject will doubtless continue to fascinate scientists and engineers for some years to come.” (Philip Nelson, Physics Today, June, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Franz Zotter studied Electrical and Audio Engineering at the University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. By the time receiving his diploma in 2004, he had the opportunity to join the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics as a researcher, later on also lecturer. In 2009, he finished his Ph.D. dealing with the topic of spherical arrays for sound radiation analysis and synthesis, and he was awarded the Lothar-Cremer medal by the German Acoustical Society (DEGA) in 2012 for the work on this topic and Ambisonics, and he became tenuring assistant professor in 2019. He is a member of the DEGA, chairs the DEGA TC on virtual acoustics, he is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and the society of German Tonmeisters (VDT).
Matthias Frank studied Electrical and Audio Engineering at the University of Technology and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. After receiving his diploma in 2009, he joined theInstitute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz as a researcher and lecturer. In 2013, he finished his Ph.D. on the spatial and timbral properties of auditory objects created by multiple loudspeakers and models thereof, in particular considering Ambisonics. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the German Acoustical Society (DEGA), and the society of German Tonmeisters (VDT).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ambisonics
Book Subtitle: A Practical 3D Audio Theory for Recording, Studio Production, Sound Reinforcement, and Virtual Reality
Authors: Franz Zotter, Matthias Frank
Series Title: Springer Topics in Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17207-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17206-0Published: 14 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17207-7Published: 30 April 2019
Series ISSN: 1866-2609
Series E-ISSN: 1866-2617
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 210
Number of Illustrations: 137 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Engineering Acoustics, Acoustics, Music