Beam me up, Scotty!

JJ Johnston

Note: All of JJ's Powerpoint decks are copyright by JJ Johnston. All rights reserved. Permission granted for your own personal (educational) use. This copyright applies whether stated within the deck or not.

Hearing & Psychoacoustics

Fundamentals of Hearing Download (1.28Mb)
Some possible sources of listener fatigue. Download (128kb)
What can go wrong with loudness models Download (345kb)
Care and Feeding of Loudness Models Download (127kb)
A spatial hearing tutorial Download (842kb)
A short essay on spatial hearing for the surround live conference. Download (181kb)
Loudness Tutorial.
PNW Section meeting, April 2006

no sound (165k)
with sound (8.2m)
Session TS-1: Physics of Sound and Hearing (1.3m)
A 2-hour hearing tutorial.
Download (1.3m)
What Can We Hear? Download (770k)

Perceptual Coders and Related Hardware

What's inside a portable music player? Download (672kb)
The history of audio codec research at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T-Labs Research. Download (114kb)
Perceptual Coding - A wide-ranging tutorial on perceptual audio coding (3 hours minimum) Download (4.9m)
The Basic Theory of Filtering Download (779k)

Floobydust

JJ's vote for the 10 worst mistakes in audio engineering. Reprised from the 123rd Convention. Download (131kb)
A Low-Complexity, Fast-acquiring Perceptually Tuned Room Correction Algorithm.
PNW Section meeting, January 2008

Download (409kb)
The Science of Audio in 2005 Download (704k)
Conversion: Issues in Hearing, Sampling, Quantization and delta-sigma converter tutorial. Download (5.3m)
Audio vs Video - the same or different? Highlights the differences between audio and video perception. Download (575k)
Home Theatre vs Cinema Audio Production: the Technical Aspects Download (373k)

Bill Whitlock

System Interfacing Download

Bob Gudgel

From the PNW DSP and Conversion meeting Download (195k)

Aaron Gates & Steve Turnidge

From the January PNW Section Meeting
High Quality Terminations
Download (3.66Mb)

Legal, IP, Patents and Copyright

Kevin Jablonski on IP and Copyright
Feb 2009 PNW Section Meeting.
Download (219k)

Ivan Tashev

Loudspeaker Arrays for Focusing and Diffusing Sound Download (1.78Mb)












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Last modified 05/14/2009.