Product Description

Music and visual producers can enhance the listening experience and engage their audience more effectively with the improved perceptive involvement of surround sound. Record, process, and deliver effective and stunning surround sound to your listener with the aid of this guide. Packed with useful, accessible information for novice and experienced users alike, you get carefully detailed screenshots, step-by-step directions, and creative suggestions for producing better audio projects.

Topics include:
• Evolution of surround sound—including a discussion of matrix and discrete formats and the related compression codecs.
• Recording—equipment and techniques to achieve the volume and placement that will immerse the listener in a unique aural environment.
• Post-production—hardware and software set-up of the surround sound desktop environment.
• Channel management—the lowdown on LFE and center channels, and the upshot on downmixing.
• Music surround mixing—adding effects and artificial ambience to the multi-track parts to craft a cohesive surround sound music mix.
• Audio post—crafting an effective surround sound mix to accompany your videos with dialog, sound effects, sound design, Foley, and music resources.
• Exporting files—encoding with separate, stand-alone software and encode options that may be built in to your authoring software.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1004641 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 234 pages

About the Author
Jeffrey P. Fisher provides audio, video, music, writing, training, and media production services. He also writes about music, sound, and video for print and the Web. He teaches digital audio production at the College of DuPage Multimedia Arts department, and co-hosts forums on Sound Forge and Vegas on Digital Media Net. His latest music CD, Atmospherics, and music library, Melomania, showcase his musical talent. Jeffrey has authored five music and sound industry books, including, Moneymaking Music, Profiting from Your Music and Sound Project Studio, Ruthless Self-Promotion in the Music Industry, and How to Make Money Scoring Soundtracks and Jingles.

Customer Reviews

Sparse....
This is like a kids manual. The print is huge! How many books have only 2-3 sentences per page with a terrible illustration? No exageration. Doesn't go into any detail, whatsoever. Skip it. A 5 minute web search is better, AND will give you much more information.

A good read
I feel it's a good book for someone wanting to get started in surround sound, but doesn't want to wade through the technical jargon found in the only two other industry books.
It's definitely simple, but has a lot of illustrations that are helpful in getting a room set up. If you're building a high $$ surround room, this isn't the right book. If you're using a creative lab system or something similar, this is the right book.