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

[Philipp Überbacher]

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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