Handbook for Sound Engineers, 5th Edition

Chapter 12

Surround Sound for Cinema

by Steve Barbar

12.1  Introduction

12.2  Origins of Sound for Cinema

12.3  From Monaural to Stereo

12.4  From Stereo to Surround Sound

12.5  The Advent of Home Theater

12.6  The Digital Era

12.7  Motion Pictures Go Digital

12.8  Monitoring Surround Sound

12.9  Theater Audio System Calibration

References

12.1  Introduction

The merger of reproduced audio with film projection was transformative for the art of motion pictures. It also promoted numerous paradigm shifts for both the tools, and methods used for recording, processing, transmitting, and reproducing audio. The early development of audio for film employed many of the most notable scientists working in acoustics at the time. Bell ...