Surround Sound starts with a brief history of surround sound going back to the 1930's and Walt Disney. The next chapter talks about one of the biggest issues both technically and aesthetically--monitoring and how it affects everything--from the engineer's mix to our enjoyment of the music itself. This naturally leads to a whole chapter on another subject mostly misunderstood even by recording engineers--multichannel microphone techniques. I found both these chapters very interesting and so vital to the understanding and producing music for surround. Chapter four deals with mixing and studio operations. This is a lesson on how to reconfigure a conventional recording studio designed for stereo mixing into a 5.1 or more channel surround facility. Holman makes equipment recommendations, monitor speaker and equipment requirements, track layout protocols, post-production delivery formats, and more. There is even a case study provided and suggestions for DVD music video mixing. Surround Sound finishes with a chapter on Delivery Formats including coding, Metadata, the Dolby specs like DialNorm and Dynamic Range Compression and audio for Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs. Finally an interesting treatise on psychoacoustics is found in Chapter 6.