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Friday, May 17, 2013
Handbook for Sound Engineers 4th Edition, Glen Ballou
Handbook for Sound Engineers 4th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Glen Ballou offers the most comprehensive reference available for audio engineers. All audio topics are explored: if you work on anything related to audio you should not be without this book!
The 4th edition of this trusted reference has been updated to reflect changes in the industry since the publication of the 3rd edition in 2002 -- including new technologies like software-based recording systems such as Pro Tools and Sound Forge; digital recording using MP3, wave files and others; mobile audio devices such as iPods and MP3 players.
Over 40 topics are covered and written by many of the top professionals for their area in the field, including Glen Ballou on interpretation systems, intercoms, assistive listening, and image projection; Ken Pohlmann on compact discs and DVDs; David Miles Huber on MIDI; Dr. Eugene Patronis on amplifier design and outdoor sound systems; Bill Whitlock on audio transformers and preamplifiers; Pat Brown on fundamentals and gain structures; Ray Rayburn on virtual systems and digital interfacing; and Dr. Wolfgang Ahnert on computer-aided sound system design and acoustics for concert halls.
Glen Ballou has been a Syn-Aud-Con representative, has served as governor and convention chairman of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and has been a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). He is a regular contributor to S&VC magazine on a variety of subjects, and is the contributing editor of The Contractor's Toolbox.
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The Audio Expert: Everything You Need to Know About Audio
The Audio Expert: Everything You Need to Know About Audio PDF Download Ebook. Ethan Winer offers comprehensive reference that covers all aspects of audio, with many practical, as well as theoretical, explanations. This book will take you beyond that, weaving together audio concepts, theories of aural perception and acoustics, musical instrument physics, and basic electronics and demonstrating their relationships to one another.
Providing in-depth descriptions of how audio really works, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies with minimal math, the book is written for people who want to understand audio at the deepest, most technical level, without needing an engineering degree. It's presented in an easy-to-read, conversational tone, and includes more than 400 figures and photos augmenting the text.
The Audio Expert takes the intermediate to advanced recording engineer or audiophile and makes you an expert. The book goes far beyond merely explaining how audio "works." It brings together the concepts of audio, aural perception, musical instrument physics, acoustics, and basic electronics, showing how they're intimately related.
Describing in great detail many of the practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers, the topics include video production and computers. Rather than merely showing how to use audio devices such as equalizers and compressors, Ethan Winer explains how they work internally, and how they are spec'd and tested.
Most explanations are platform-agnostic, applying equally to Windows and Mac operating systems, and to most software and hardware. TheAudioExpertbook.com, the companion website, has audio and video examples to better present complex topics such as vibration and resonance. There are also videos demonstrating editing techniques and audio processing, as well as interviews with skilled musicians demonstrating their instruments and playing techniques.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8: Create, Produce, Perform
Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8: Create, Produce, Perform PDF Download Ebook. Keith Robinson shows how to create, produce and perform a whole new way; prepare to unlock the power of Live. This book and DVD combination shows, if you get it right, exactly what Ableton Live can deliver.
Engineered to follow Live's non linear music environment the book looks and feels like the program, its unique format utilizes the terms and creative features of Live- tabs, keys, pointers, and labels to learn the littlest things that make the biggest difference. Packed with professional testimonials, concepts, definitions, hundred of tips, tricks and hidden features the book covers the software's nuts and bolts and creative technique to create, produce, perform and make music on the fly.
The accompanying DVD contains 'Live sets' and web pointer information to sync and download as well as interviews, further hints, tips and video. Its unique format utilizes the terms and creative features of Live - tabs, keys, pointers, and labels.
Packed with professional testimonials, concepts, definitions, hundreds of tips, tricks and hidden features, Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 covers the software's nuts and bolts and creative technique to create, produce, perform and make music on the fly. The accompanying website contains "Live sets" and web pointer information to sync and download as well as interviews, additional hints, tips and video.
Inspiring and exciting structure and graphic format mirroring the GUI of live, the author is worldwide lead clinician and training manager for Ableton Live, learn from the industry experts. This text includes new and inventive tricks, be a successful and proficient Live user so readers understand Ableton Live terms and features, provides a comfortable transition from other DAWs.
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The Guide to MIDI Orchestration 4e by Paul Gilreath
The Guide to MIDI Orchestration 4th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Paul Gilreath offers complete introduction and overview of the orchestra with in-depth discussions of each orchestral section, detailed information on each instrument's timbre, range and uses. There are discussions of orchestration techniques and demonstrations on how to build an orchestration from the ground up.
Since its initial release in 1997, Paul Gilreath's The Guide to MIDI Orchestration has been the premiere text on creating realistic emulations of a symphony orchestra using samplers and computer recording techniques. Now in its fourth edition, The Guide to MIDI Orchestration explains how to merge this ever-expanding technology with the artistry of orchestration to produce the most lifelike recordings possible.
The book is written for composers, arrangers, and MIDI musicians of all levels, and will be helpful to game composers, film and television composers, traditional orchestral composers, teachers, instructors, and the serious hobbyist. It has a good introduction and guide to orchestras and orchestral music, with much information on composing and use of instruments, fully 6 chapters worth.
Presentations on techniques for achieving balance and musical interest are presented with setup and recommendations for software and equipment. There are details on setting up a multi-computer network for use as slave computers with overview of software sampler and Digital Audio Workstation software.
Author also includes presentation of note entry methods, DAW and sampler template implementation, detailed steps for achieving realistic reverberation and instrument placement, start to finish steps to achieve a final mix and insightful interviews with top mastering engineers.
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Valve Amplifiers 4th Edition by Morgan Jones
Valve Amplifiers 4th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Morgan Jones describes all stages of design so that you can create your own wonders. Jones is an ex-BBC engineer with a cool writing style and you'll find it a no-pain education. It is an extremely well-written book, containing a wealth of information that all audio designers and builders will find useful.
Many still hanker after the traditional warm valve sound from a hi-fi, and if you're handy with a soldering iron and not afraid of HT voltages, the Jones' book could keep you amused for hours. Filled with designs, tips, and information on every aspect of valve power amplifiers, a basic knowledge of electronics and metalwork is all you'll need to get the most from this (relatively) ancient technology.
This guide is a market leader for one simple reason: in this specialist area it is recognized as the most complete guide to valve and vacuum tube amplifier design, modification, analysis, construction and maintenance. It is truly the all you need to know guide, and enables audio and circuit designers to succeed with their valve amplifier designs and projects.
This book enables readers to understand, create, reconfigure and personalize high-end, audiophile quality amplifiers. Following a step-by-step approach to design, with little maths and lots of know-how, it starts with a brief review of electronic fundamentals relevant to valve amplifiers, simple stages, compound stages, linking stages together, and finally, complete designs.
The new material included in this Fourth Edition ensures this book will stay at the top of any audio designer's or enthusiast's reference list.
Chapter 1: Charge amplifiers
Chapter 2: Additional circuits, semiconductor constant current sources expanded
Chapter 3: Entire new section on noise
Chapter 4: Lots of new measurements to explode or explain audio folklore
Chapter 5: Astonishingly quiet, but cheap and simple HT supply
Chapter 6: New power amplifier
Chapter 7: New hybrid balanced RIAA stage, attenuator law faking
VA3's focus was on distortion, but in VA4, focus is pushed towards background noise reduction. If that wasn't enough, there's more explanation, more measurements, more references, and plenty of new one-liners, any one of which might save hours of trouble.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Complete Guide to High-End Audio 4e, Robert Harley
The Complete Guide to High-End Audio PDF Download Ebook. Robert Harley shows how to choose the best audio equipment on a budget, how to get the best sound for the money, and how to set up a system for maximum performance.
Revised and expanded to include all the latest audio technologies, this book is packed with expert advice how to make speakers sound up to 50 percent better at no cost, avoid the most common system set-up mistakes, and how to choose the one speaker in 50 worth owning. Among the new topics covered are computer-based music servers, wireless streaming of audio, high-resolution digital audio, internet downloads, HD radio, Blu-ray Disc, and the new high-resolution surround-sound formats.
A short course on listening-room acoustics is presented and additional information on audio for home theater, multichannel audio, system set-up secrets, and what each component's specifications and measurements mean is also provided.
Robert Harley is the editor in chief of The Absolute Sound, the world's most respected magazine on high-performance audio. He is the author of Introductory Guide to High-Performance Audio Systems and Home Theater for Everyone and has written more than 1,000 product reviews and articles on high-quality music reproduction. He lives in Carlsbad, California.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Producing Great Sound for Film and Video 3e, Jay Rose
Producing Great Sound for Film and Video 3rd Edition PDF Download Ebook. Jay Rose offers hundreds of professional, real-world techniques that you can employ from preproduction through the final mix. This is a solution-oriented guide with FAQs, how-tos, tips, and time savers.
You'll get a primer on how sound and digital audio work as well as technical setups, guidelines, and real solutions for budgeting, scheduling, and preproduction planning using microphones and room acoustics. There is also clear explanation on recording dialog, voice-overs, ADR, and effects, postproduction hardware, levels and digitizing, working with music and sound effects for producing the final mix.
New to this edition are information on the latest cameras and field recorders, choices between single- and double-system, and digital workflows, the differences between traditional video soundtracks and dialog-driven storytelling.
The writer's intimate and accessible style is what makes this book a great value for anyone interested in audio. Whether you're just starting in the field of digital audio/video production, or are a seasoned pro, you'll find information in this book that will improve your end product. You'll learn what mics to use in the field, how to fix an echo, how to deal with line noise, cheap fixes for potentially expensive problems-and this book will teach you tips and tricks that will make your head spin.
Author shows the reader how to make do in limited-budget, time-constrained situations, and puts it all in context on a technical level. Producing Great Soundtracks is an invaluable collection of step-by-step how-to information combined with the technical reasons things do or don't work. It's essential reading for anyone serious about making a living doing moving pictures.
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Modern Recording Techniques 7th Edition, David Huber
Modern Recording Techniques 7th Edition PDF Download Ebook. David Miles Huber and Robert E. Runstein help guide you in creating, understanding and mastering the pro and project studio. The tips, tricks and tools in this best-selling book will enable you to record music in new and innovative ways that'll help you express your talents to their fullest potential.
We have entered an exciting age in audio production. Conventional limitations in recording have subsided or vanished entirely, making it possible to create and record your own music in ways that few ever dreamed possible. This definitive guide to audio covers the latest audio technologies, and includes expanded and enhanced sections on the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), plug-ins, looping, groove tools, studio techniques, surround sound, mastering and more.
Accompanied by an interactive companion website (www.modrec.com) featuring a searchable audio glossary, this dynamite book/website combination leaves no recording question unanswered, while offering you the chance to share ideas, get tips, and seek out advice when and where you need it.
With this book, you can explore the tools for getting better results in both the professional and project recording studio, gain in-depth insights into digital audio technology, the digital audio workstation (DAW), surround sound production, electronic music and MIDI, synchronization, analog and digital console technology, mixing, console automation and more.
You also learn basics of dynamics, noise reduction, and other forms of signal processing in both the analog and the digital domains. This book also describes practical microphone placement techniques, monitoring fundamentals, CD mastering and important tips on getting your music to market. You can check out new developments in new media, desktop audio and music technologies for the Web.
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Sound System Engineering 4th Edition, Davis and Patronis
Sound System Engineering 4th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Don Davis, Eugene Patronis and Pat Brown offer accurate, complete, and concise tool for all those involved in designing, implementing, and testing sound reinforcement systems. This new fourth edition includes eight new chapters leading the reader through both cutting-edge topics—e.g., IBM’s proposed thought-controlled sound system—and solid basics, such as loudspeaker specifications, wave equations, and digital audio.
Topics covered include psychoacoustics and how the brain processes sound, digital theory, mathematics for audio systems, using the decibel, interfacing electrical and acoustical systems. Audio and acoustic measurements are explained by considering large room and small room acoustics, designing for acoustic gain, designing for speech intelligibility, wave equations, microphones, loudspeakers, loudspeaker arrays, and loudspeaker directivity.
Packed with numerous illustrations and useful appendices, this is a concentrated capsule of industry standards and knowledge that spans the complete range of sound systems, from the simplest all-analog paging systems to the largest multi-purpose digital systems.
Written by two leading authorities in the field of audio engineering, this highly respected guide covers the basic principals necessary for the understanding of today's systems as well as for those systems yet to come.
Don Davis and his wife, Carolyn, founded Synergetic Audio Concepts in 1972. Don and Carolyn are both Fellows of the Audio Engineering Society. Don is a senior member of the IEEE and a gold member of the Acoustical Society of America. Don and Carolyn received dual lifetime achievement awards from NSCA, the Adele De Berri Pioneers of Audio award from InfoComm International, and the USITT Harold Burris-Myer Distinguished Career in Sound Design Award.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Master Handbook of Acoustics 5th Edition by Everest
Master Handbook of Acoustics 5th Edition PDF Download Ebook. F. Alton Everest and Ken Pohlmann present clear explanations of acoustic phenomena and provide hands-on approach to room design. Learn how to perform acoustic measurements, choose room dimensions, assign speaker placement, analyze response curves, and design and install sound absorbers and diffusers.
You will also find details on how to fine-tune room reverberation, minimize external noise, and apply psychoacoustic concepts. Author explains how to determine how sound propagates in open and enclosed spaces, measure sound-pressure levels and work with decibels, analyze the characteristics of room modal resonances, treat rooms for optimal early reflections, reverberation, and diffusion.
This book offers guidelines to minimize acoustic distortion, comb-filter effects, and HVAC interference, construct high-quality stereo and surround-sound listening rooms, design personal and professional recording studios and control rooms, understand the acoustics of auditoriums and concert halls, optimize room designs using measurement, modeling, and auralization software.
This text offers guidelines to build your own acoustic environments such as recording studios, control rooms, and home listening rooms with expert insights from two engineering professionals. Fully expanded to cover the latest methods and software tools, this book shows explanation to apply the principles of acoustics to the audio arts.
This involves serving as an interpreter of major trends and the literature for students and practitioners in the audio field. Along with covering the more theoretical aspects of acoustics, the book applies the theory to the design of specialized audio spaces such as the home listening room, the control room, and the multi-track-recording studio.
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Artist Management for the Music Business 2e, Paul Allen
Artist Management for the Music Business 2nd Edition PDF Download Ebook. Paul Allen provides clear in depth information on what to do as an artist manager and how to do it. The book looks at the application of classic management theory to artist management, includes profiles of successful artist managers as well as offering skill development for planning, coaching, and leading.
This text provides key industry insight for both new and experienced artist managers, plus exclusive planning guidance, current management tools, and successful career strategies for managers and the artists they manage. It gives a detailed account of the politics, processes and procedures from the perspective and experiences of artist managers, career of managing performers and other areas of the business.
You will learn to prepare yourself for a career in artist management and become skilled with the tools to coach, lead, organize time, manage finance, market an artist, and carve out the successful career path for both yourself and your clients. The book features profiles of artist managers, an exclusive and detailed template for an artist career plan, and samples of major contract sections for artist management and record deals.
This book is for those who are interested in the music business, especially for those who want to manage musicians. There is a lot of information to process, but the author does it in a plain, direct manner and it is well organized. He doesn't sugar coat things and clearly defines the career, letting you know what to expect. He gives plenty of real-life success stories to inspire the reader and motivate you to keep moving forward if this is your dream. While this is really a book for those interested in managing, it is also an informative read for musicians as well.
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The Sound Reinforcement Handbook 2nd Edition, Gary Davis
The Sound Reinforcement Handbook 2nd Edition PDF Download Ebook. Gary Davis and Ralph Jones cover all aspects of designing and using such systems for public address and musical performance. The book features information on both the audio theory involved and the practical applications of that theory, explaining everything from microphones to loudspeakers.
This book features almost 40 new pages and is even easier to follow with the addition of an index and a simplified page and chapter numbering system. New topics covered include: MIDI, Synchronization, and an Appendix on Logarithms.
You will get familiar with the signal routing possibilities in your mixer, find out what signal levels different parts of your equipment expect (and can tolerate) on their inputs and produce at their outputs. This book offers the ways for avoiding signal clipping and the resulting distortion of your signal and risk of damage to your high-frequency driver on your speakers. Next in line of favorite reading material is the Yamaha classic.
If your going to read only one book on the subject, read this one ! I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get serious or learn more about sound reinforcement as well as for people who have been in the business for years. The book covers basic topics like microphones and mixing consoles, from the basic terms to simplified circuitry schematics and formulas.
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