Which Books for Audio Recording

Posted on Oct 10, 2004 03:13 pm
JAYDOTTCOMM
Member Since: Aug 24, 2004

Fellas! What books do we need to excell in this audio recording world? I am a PTLE user..Expensive! Anyway, what books do you recomend for a, not exactly a rookie and far from pro, engineer. Are there any that you couldnt go without..and why???

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flame
...bringing sexy back
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Oct 10, 2004 05:31 pm

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fortymile
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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Oct 10, 2004 05:35 pm

hey i just saw a potentially GREAT one at bn the other day. it showed you a bit about how to start perceiving audio from an engineering perspective. rather than just showing about twisting dials, it had some exercises for identifying frequency bands/volumes/densities. and a lot of other useful-like things. i have no idea what it was called or who it was by. it was softcover. and shiny. and had a picture of some kind.

Squaysh
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Since: Aug 17, 2004

Oct 10, 2004 10:48 pm

A couple great books worth taking a look at are:

SOUND and RECORDING by Rumsey/McCormick

and

MODERN RECORDING TECHNIQUES
by Huber/Runstein

nevsay_d
NOIZEHEAD
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Since: Jul 26, 2004

Oct 11, 2004 05:22 am

audio engineers reference book- by Michal talbot smith

Yamaha Sound reinforcement handbook

audio workstation-Rumsey

my favourites..

Bruno
The Quiet Minded
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Oct 11, 2004 11:06 pm

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Walt
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Oct 12, 2004 12:13 am

Shure microphone site has a number of real informative pdf downloads for mic placement/usage/tricks and traps. Ozone will let you download their manual on mastering software that although for their software has a lot of very good information. I have done searchs on specific microphone arrays and got a lot of "white paper" technical information that was great. All free for the download.

fortymile
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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Oct 12, 2004 02:29 am

www.amazon.com/exec/obido...nce&s=books

this is the one i was looking at.

dbmasters
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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Oct 12, 2004 08:41 am

homerecordingconnection.c...2&cat_id=34

Noize2u
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Oct 12, 2004 09:02 pm

In the link above that dB gave, I recomend the Home Recording Power book. There is an entire series of Power books that pertain to almost any software out there now.

But that particular book has so much info in it for the home recordist, and beyond. If you havent read any books regarding recording I suggest starting there as it really dive deep into what you need to know.