Immersive Sound Production A Practical Guide Immersive Sound Production is a handbook for the successful implementation of immersive sound for live sports and entertainment. This book presents thorough explanations of production practices and possibilities and takes the reader through the essentials of immersive sound capture and creation with real world examples of microphones mixing and mastering practices. Additionally this book examines the technology that makes immersive sound possible for the audio mixer sound designer and content producer to craft a compelling soundscape. This book serves as a guide for all audio professionals from aspiring audio mixers to sound designers and content producers as well as students in the areas of sound engineering TV and broadcast and film. | Immersive Sound Production A Practical Guide GBP 31.99 1
Mixing with Impact Learning to Make Musical Choices In Mixing with Impact: Learning to Make Musical Choices Wessel Oltheten discusses the creative and technical concepts behind making a mix. Whether you’re a dance producer in your home studio a live mixer in a club or an engineer in a big studio the mindset is largely the same. The same goes for the questions you run into: where do you start? How do you deal with a context in which all the different parts affect each other? How do you avoid getting lost in technique? How do you direct your audience’s attention? Why doesn’t your mix sound as good as someone else’s? How do you maintain your objectivity when you hear the same song a hundred times? How do your speakers affect your perception? What’s the difference between one compressor and another? Following a clear structure this book covers these and many other questions bringing you closer and closer to answering the most important question of all: how do you tell a story with sound? | Mixing with Impact Learning to Make Musical Choices GBP 48.99 1
Game Audio Programming 3: Principles and Practices Welcome to the third volume of Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices—the first series of its kind dedicated to the art and science of game audio programming. This volume contains 14 chapters from some of the top game audio programmers and sound designers in the industry. Topics range across game genres (ARPG RTS FPS etc. ) and from low-level topics such as DSP to high-level topics like using influence maps for audio. The techniques in this book are targeted at game audio programmers of all abilities from newbies who are just getting into audio programming to seasoned veterans. All of the principles and practices in this book have been used in real shipping games so they are all very practical and immediately applicable. There are chapters about split-screen audio dynamic music improvisation dynamic mixing ambiences DSPs and more. This book continues the tradition of collecting modern up-to-date knowledge and wisdom about game audio programming. So whether you’ve been a game audio programmer for one year or ten years or even if you’ve just been assigned the task and are trying to figure out what it’s all about this book is for you! Key Features Cutting-edge advanced game audio programming concepts with examples from real game audio engines Includes both high-level and low-level topics Practical code examples math and diagrams that you can apply directly to your game audio engine. Guy Somberg has been programming audio engines for his entire career. From humble beginnings writing a low-level audio mixer for slot machines he quickly transitioned to writing game audio engines for all manner of games. He has written audio engines that shipped AAA games like Hellgate: London Bioshock 2 The Sims 4 and Torchlight 3 as well as smaller titles like Minion Master Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones. Guy has also given several talks at the Game Developer Conference the Audio Developer Conference and CppCon. When he’s not programming or writing game audio programming books he can be found at home reading playing video games and playing the flute. | Game Audio Programming 3: Principles and Practices GBP 56.99 1