Previous ed.: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General requirements and common errors -- Sound, decibels and hearin g -- Sound isolation -- Room acoustics and means of control -- Designin g neutral rooms -- Rooms with characteristic acoustics -- Variable acou stics -- Room combinations and operational considerations -- The studio environment -- Limitations to design predictions -- Loudspeakers in ro oms -- Flattening the room response -- Control rooms -- The behaviour o f multiple loudspeakers in rooms -- Studio monitoring: the principal ob jectives -- The non-environment control room -- The live-end, dead-end approach -- Response disturbances due to mixing consoles and studio fur niture -- Objective measurement and subjective evaluations -- Studio mo nitoring systems -- Surround sound and control rooms -- Human factors - - A mobile control room -- Foldback -- Main supplies and earthing syste ms -- Analogue audio interfacing.