Audio Metering
eBook - ePub

Audio Metering

Measurements, Standards and Practice

  1. 418 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Audio Metering

Measurements, Standards and Practice

About this book

In this comprehensive guide, Brixen takes the reader through the complex and confusing aspects of audio metering, imparting the knowledge and skills needed to utilize optional signal levels and produce high-quality audio.

Covering all aspects of this fundamental subject, Audio Metering: Measurements, Standards and Practice begins with the basics, such as audio definitions and digital techniques, and works up to more complex topics like hearing and psychoacoustics.

This revised and expanded third edition includes:

  • Updated information on loudness metering, covering both existing and new standards.


  • Definitions of terms such as LKFS, LUFS, gating, LRA.


  • Explanations of signal types and musical sounds and structures.


  • Further details on immersive audio.


  • Skills needed for both small-room acoustics and large auditorium sound design without loss of sound quality.


  • Descriptions of measurement signals and systems for audio and acoustic sound.


  • A chapter on listening tests from small set-ups to large-scale comparisons of PA/SR-systems.


Packed full of valuable information with a wide range of practical applications, this is the essential reference guide to audio metering for technicians, engineers, and tonmeisters, as well as sound designers working with acoustics, electroacoustics, broadcast, studio recording, sound art, archiving, audio forensics, and theatrical and live-audio setups.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: Acoustic Sound
  9. Chapter 2: From Acoustic Sound to Electrical Signals
  10. Chapter 3: Digital Representation
  11. Chapter 4: Signal Types
  12. Chapter 5: How Large Is an Audio Signal?
  13. Chapter 6: The dB Concept
  14. Chapter 7: The Ear, Hearing, and Level Perception
  15. Chapter 8: Time Weighting
  16. Chapter 9: Frequency Weighting and Filters
  17. Chapter 10: Determination of Loudness
  18. Chapter 11: Characteristics of Level Meters
  19. Chapter 12: The Standard Volume Indicator (VU Meter)
  20. Chapter 13: Peak Program Meter โ€“ PPM
  21. Chapter 14: Loudness Metering
  22. Chapter 15: Calibration of Level and Loudness Meters
  23. Chapter 16: Relationships Between Scales
  24. Chapter 17: Dynamic Scales
  25. Chapter 18: Polarity and Phase Reading
  26. Chapter 19: Display of Level Distribution
  27. Chapter 20: Multichannel/Immersive Audio
  28. Chapter 21: Standards and Practices
  29. Chapter 22: Summation of Audio Signals
  30. Chapter 23: Digital Interface
  31. Chapter 24: Audio-over-IP
  32. Chapter 25: Where to Connect a Meter
  33. Chapter 26: FFT, Fast Fourier Transformation
  34. Chapter 27: Spectrum Analyzer
  35. Chapter 28: Other Measurement Systems
  36. Chapter 29: Measurement Signals
  37. Chapter 30: Sound Level Meters
  38. Chapter 31: NR, NC, PNC, RNC, and RC Curves
  39. Chapter 32: Room Acoustic Measures
  40. Chapter 33: Listening Tests
  41. Glossary
  42. Index