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Small Signal Audio Design
Small Signal Audio Design is a highly practical handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any type of audio system. This fully revised fourth edition offers wholly new content on internally balanced audio design, electret microphones, emitter-follower stability, microphony in capacitors, and much, much more. This book continues the engaging prose style familiar to readers, as you learn why mercury-filled cables are not a good idea, the pitfalls of plating gold on copper, and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. Learn how Including all the crucial theories, but with minimal mathematics, Small Signal Audio Design is the must-have companion for anyone studying, researching, or working in audio engineering and audio electronics.
816 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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January 28, 2015
This book is extremely valuable and builds impressively on the excellent 1st edition.
The perspective is that of the working professional audio equipment designer and Self's emphasis is on lowest cost for highest performance. Useful features are examined along with best practices for implementation. You could literally design a mixing console with the information in this book, and design it well. there are principles I have internalized from reading (and re-reading) this book which have informed my own work and become part of my skill set.
Douglas Self also has the rare ability to take technical writing and make it funny - that is quite a gift.
I am largely self- (Self- ?) taught in audio electronics and a book of this quality is worth its weight in Telefunken ECC83's.
The perspective is that of the working professional audio equipment designer and Self's emphasis is on lowest cost for highest performance. Useful features are examined along with best practices for implementation. You could literally design a mixing console with the information in this book, and design it well. there are principles I have internalized from reading (and re-reading) this book which have informed my own work and become part of my skill set.
Douglas Self also has the rare ability to take technical writing and make it funny - that is quite a gift.
I am largely self- (Self- ?) taught in audio electronics and a book of this quality is worth its weight in Telefunken ECC83's.
November 28, 2014
Clear and well organized with a focus on studio electronics, music reproduction and sound reinforceement. Has little about music creation (synthesizer circuitry for example). Strong on low-noise design techniques.
This is a book to read right through, and to refer back to frequently.
This is a book to read right through, and to refer back to frequently.
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