The Art and Science of 3D Audio Recording

By Edwin Pfanzagl-Cardone

This professional book offers a unique, comprehensive and timely guide on 3D audio recording. Intended for sound engineers and professionals, and summarizing more than twenty-year research on this topic, it includes extensive information and details on various microphone techniques and loudspeaker layouts, such as Auro-3D(R), Dolby(R) AtmosTM, DTS: X(R), MMAD, SONY 360 Reality Audio and Ambisonics. It presents a rich set of results obtained from both objective measurements and subjective listening tests, and a number of case studies for 3D recording, ranging from solo-instrument techniques to full symphony orchestra, and microphone systems for virtual reality applications. Further, it includes a chapter on spatial hearing discussing issues of 3D audio sound reproduction. All in all, this book offers extensive, practical information for sound engineers and professionals.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031230450
• ISBN13: 9783031230455
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"