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The Audio Expert: Everything You Need to Know About Audio
This newly updated third edition of The Audio Expert offers a comprehensive reference book that covers all aspects of audio. The book includes both practical and theoretical explanations, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math.
Written for people who want to understand audio at a technical level without needing an engineering degree, it uses an easy-to-read conversational tone as well as more than 400 figures and photos to augment the printed text. Thoroughly revised, the third edition includes updated terminology for clarity and accuracy, refreshed topics that reflect modern workflows, practices and research, and new sections covering topics such as audio myth-busting. Bringing together the concepts of audio, aural perception, musical instrument physics, acoustics, and basic electronics to demonstrate how they’re intimately related, this book describes in detail many of the practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers.
The Audio Expert is the ideal resource for intermediate to advanced sound engineers and audiophiles who want to become experts, as well as offering plenty for beginners too.
Written for people who want to understand audio at a technical level without needing an engineering degree, it uses an easy-to-read conversational tone as well as more than 400 figures and photos to augment the printed text. Thoroughly revised, the third edition includes updated terminology for clarity and accuracy, refreshed topics that reflect modern workflows, practices and research, and new sections covering topics such as audio myth-busting. Bringing together the concepts of audio, aural perception, musical instrument physics, acoustics, and basic electronics to demonstrate how they’re intimately related, this book describes in detail many of the practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers.
The Audio Expert is the ideal resource for intermediate to advanced sound engineers and audiophiles who want to become experts, as well as offering plenty for beginners too.
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First published January 1, 2012
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February 9, 2013
Really /thorough/ book (at least from my non-expert point of view), which takes you through many of the important topics in understanding sound, setting up studios or simply a good home music listening experience.
I like it how Ethan Winer explains things from first principles, and his skepticism for many audiophile claims -- a field so full of placebos/superstition and commercial products trying to exploit that. He gets a bit bitter sometimes, but he certainly knows his stuff -- impressive.
The book does get tedious in some parts, but I'll keep it around whenever I feel the read to refresh my knowledge on some audio-related topic.
I like it how Ethan Winer explains things from first principles, and his skepticism for many audiophile claims -- a field so full of placebos/superstition and commercial products trying to exploit that. He gets a bit bitter sometimes, but he certainly knows his stuff -- impressive.
The book does get tedious in some parts, but I'll keep it around whenever I feel the read to refresh my knowledge on some audio-related topic.
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