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ES ti CO' '''45 THE SOUND ENGINEERING MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 1976 $1.00 IN THIS ISSUE: The Whites of their Eyes Dynamic Control Of Sibilant Sounds Psychoacoustics +.a*£4:,:. : . , ttr - Next best thing to a sound proof booth. Shure's new headset microphones are coming through loud and clear. With their unique miniature dynamic element placed right at the end of the boom, Shure's broadcast team eliminates the harsh "telephone" sound and stand- ing waves generated by hollow -tube microphones. The SM10 microphone and the SM12 microphone /receiver have a unidirectional pickup pattern that rejects unwanted background noise, too. In fact, this is the first practical headset microphone that offers a high quality frequency response, effective noise rejection, unobstructed vision design, and unobtrusive size. Shure Brothers Inc. 222 Hartrey Ave., Evanston, IL 60204 In Canada: A. C. Simmonds & Sons Limited WA SI-IUFRE Manufacturers of high fidelity components, microphones, sound systems and related circuitry. Circle 10 on Reader Service Card month The coming of spring is tradi- 0 0 tionally celebrated in song. So, what is good enough for Mendelssohn is THE SOUND ENGINEERING MAGAZINE good enough for db music is our ... FEBRUARY 1976, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 March theme. Inventor Harald Bode provides a richly detailed explanation of FRE- QUENCY SHIFTERS FOR PROFESSIONAL AFPt.ICAT1oNs. of special interest to those who arc into electronic music. 20 THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES Marc Saul discuses methods of Martin Dickstein testing for harmonic distortion in mus- ical reproduction in UNDERSTANDING 25 PSYCHOACOUSTICS HARMONIC DtsroRTIoN. Daniel Queen Another lesson in Feedback comes 28 SCIENTIFIC CALCULATORS from Norman Crowhurst, the third in Philip C. Erhorn a series. 33 THE DYNAMIC CONTROL March will also bring the first article OF SIBILANT SOUNDS in a valuable series by Patrick S. Fin- Sidney L. Silver negan of Broadcast Audio. Mr. Finne- gan has spent a long career in broad- cast audio engineering and we're sure 2 INDEX TO ADVERTISERS you'll lind his expertise of interest. His first article will cover broadcast 4 LETTERS stereo separation. 6 FREE LITERATURE 8 THEORY AND PRACTICE Norman H. Crowhurst 12 THE SYNC TRACK John Woram 14 SOUND WITH IMAGES Martin Dickstein 16 NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES 17 CALENDAR 37 CLASSIFIED 40 PEOPLE, PLACES. HAPPENINGS db is listed in Current Contents: Engineering and Technology Robert Bach Larry Zide PUBLISHER EDITOR Bob Laurie John Woram ART DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Eloise Beach Hazel Krantz CIRCULATION MANAGER COPY EDITOR Lydia Anderson Ann Russell ASST. 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