Ambisonics: a practical 3D audio theory for recording, studio production, sound reinforcement, and virtual reality - 19 (1st ed. 2019.)

This open access book provides a concise explanation of the fundamentals and background of the surround sound recording and playback technology Ambisonics.

It equips readers with the psychoacoustical, signal processing, acoustical, and mathematical knowledge needed to understand the inner workings of modern processing utilities, special equipment for recording, manipulation, and reproduction in the higher-order Ambisonic format.

The book comes with various practical examples based on free software tools and open scientific data for reproducible research.

The book's introductory section offers a perspective on Ambisonics spanning from the origins of coincident recordings in the 1930s to the Ambisonic concepts of the 1970s, as well as classical ways of applying Ambisonics in first-order coincident sound scene recording and reproduction that have been practiced since the 1980s.