Studying Sound, A Theory and Practice of Sound Design by Collins, Karen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Hearing and Listening

1.1 Talking and Writing about Sound 1.2 The Ear and the Brain: How We Hear 1.3 Human Hearing Ability 1.4 Protecting Your Hearing 1.5 Headphones Guide Reading and Listening Guide

2 Sound

2.1 What Is Sound? 2.2 Frequency 2.3 Consonance and Dissonance 2.4 Amplitude 2.5 Timbre 2.6 Wave Interference 2.7 Sound Envelopes 2.8 Smearing, Rhythm, and Masking 2.9 Selecting Sounds: Sound Libraries 2.10 Segues 2.11 Digital Sounds Reading and Listening Guide

3 Recording Sounds

3.1 Audio Slating 3.2 Stereo or Mono Recording? 3.3 Microphones and Microphone Selection 3.4 Recording Accessories 3.5 Microphone Position 3.6 Creative Recording 3.7 Prototyping Sounds Reading and Listening Guide

4 Sounds in Space

4.1 The Doppler Effect 4.2 Reverberation 4.3 Absorption and Diffusion 4.4 Digital Reverberation 4.5 Echo and Delay 4.6 Digital Delay 4.7 Phasing and Flanging Effects 4.8 Time-Stretching 4.9 Worldizing 4.10 Setting Up a Recording Space Reading and Listening Guide

5 Sound Effects

5.1 Tremolo and Vibrato 5.2 Pitch Shifting and Auto-Tune 5.3 Equalization 5.4 Filters 5.5 Modulation: Ring Modulation and Vocoder 5.6 Distortion: Overdrive and Fuzz 5.7 Summary and Bonus Exercises Reading and Listening Guide

6 Mixing

6.1 Mixing Theory: Three-Dimensional Sound 6.2 A Note on Mixing in Audacity 6.3 Dynamic Range 6.4 Compression, Limiting, and Normalization 6.5 Expansion and Gating 6.6 Ducking 6.7 Noise Reduction 6.8 Figure and Ground: Signal to Noise 6.9 Panning 6.10 Mixing across Media Devices 6.11 Technical versus Creative Mixing 6.12 Point of Audition: Objects in Ears May Be Closer Than They Appear 6.13 Summary and Further Mixing Exercises Reading and Listening Guide

7 Surround and Spatial Sound

7.1 Human Sound Localization 7.2 Binaural Audio 7.3 In-Head Localization 7.4 Surround Sound 7.5 Ambisonics and Object-Based Audio 7.6 Spatial Sound 7.7 Sound Propagation Reading and Listening Guide

8 Sound and Meaning

8.1 Conditioning 8.2 Sonic Archetypes, Stereotypes, and Generalizations 8.3 Basic Semiotic Theory 8.4 Phenomenology, Embodied Cognition, and Intersensory Integration 8.5 Summary Reading and Listening Guide

9 Sound for Story

9.1 Functions of Sound in Audio Story 9.2 The Mix 9.3 Audio Research 9.4 Audio Story Analysis 9.5 Spotting a Script 9.6 Cue Sheets 9.7 The Asset List Reading and Listening Guide

10 Conclusions and Wrap-Up

10.1 Self-Evaluation

References Audiovisual References Index