Re: [LAD] You guys don't make nearly enough sense as you should to me :")

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
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und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
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