Actually, the surprising thing about both TapeOp and the Tascam manual is how much they get into the acoustical physics stuff.
TapeOp recently had a piece on building a binaural microphone. Wanky engineer stuff, right? Well, it wound up being about how you can use a mannequin head to replicate actual sound behavior on human ears.
Anyway, it's not *exactly* what you're looking for, but still -- surprisingly apt.
I know I've seen the perfect book for you, too, at a local used book shop. Can't remember the name, but it was fat and full of illustrations of soundwaves and had a chapter on soundproofing materials. May have been one of the aforementioned encyclopedias, but I think it was just an Acoustics class textbook. |
