Excerpts from Bearcat M. Sandor's message of 2010-08-10 21:55:41 +0200: > Fons just wrote "as far as i'm concerned, it would be cool to have > some help creating a "hybrid" matrix like i described to bearcat, to > avoid having to run separate ambdecs for tops and subs. the most > important thing would be another gain coefficient to match the subs to > the tops, similar to what you already have to tweak the two > psychoacoustic bands." > > gain coefficient....what? I know that makes sense to the lot of you but > not to me. I'd like to fix that. > > I love sound and i'm genuinely interested in sound theory, audio > recording, the effects of sound on the body and ambisonics. My problem > is that some of the things said on this list come across as Frontier > Gibberish because though i have the background in it as a hobby i don't > have the training or education (mine is in computer programming not > audio). Reading up on ambisonics lots of it is technical and i'd like > to be able to understand it. > > So i want to educate myself. Does anyone have any suggestions for books > or what have you that i could pick up to give me a basic feel for how > all this works, basic accoustic sound theory? Should i pick up a book on > algebra 2 first? (i'm not a math-wiz. I finally passed Algebra 1 on the > 2nd try). If i were to look at a college course for what books they > use, what course titles would i be looking for? > > I probably won't get to the knowledge level of Fons or Jorn by reading > books an messing around with my equipment, but i'd sure like to try. > > For what it's worth English is my first and last language when talking > about reading material. > > Thanks folks. I appreciate it.
I really like the writing style of the musimathics books, but take it with a grain of salt, I'm nowhere near the math heavy parts yet. http://musimathics.com/ -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
