Live Sound (Performing Musicians) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you are new hand for sound reinforcement / recording / live mix or Sound fans, this is a good book for you.
The book introduces you many basic principles by the way of detail, logic and easy-understanding, anduse the plain english if you are overseas out of US or UK.
The authorwill tell you what he think about the method professional used, and theconfusion lot of people has.

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This is a practical guide to equipment and sound for small to medium sized gigs. It covers everything from choosing PA equipment and back line amplification, to selecting the right type of microphone and finding your way around a typical live sound mixer.

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Live Sound Practice and Theory (Book) Review

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(More customer reviews)No doubt about it, Mark Amundson is an audio god among us mere mortals, I just cant help feeling that a lot of this material has been re-hashed from his FOH articles, and he could have given us who are so hungry for his knowledge and insight a fresher bit of info to pull from.

Albeit, he does 'fess up to this at the beginning of the book--you just have to buy it first!

None the less, it is an excellent refresher and a must-read for newbies, so over all it doesn't disappoint.

I'm a 15+ year audio vet, 9 with IATSE and I certainly won't be asking for a return.

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Troubleshooting tips from a seasoned sound engineer. Real live sounds engineers swim in a reality of time pressure, troubleshooting, non-technical individuals and limitations of money. This book provides practical advice pulled from the articles the author wrote for the live sound industry leading magazine Front of House. Topics include equipment storage and handing, speaker positioning, speaker and amp matching, power distribution, signal processing, handling wireless mics, and other daily operational topics that are important to national touring crew technicians and engineers.

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Basic Effects & Processors Review

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(More customer reviews)Sometimes I see people give this series of books "so so" reviews. This book, and others in the Pual White "Basic" series are made to be a small reference book. These books are about the size of a pocket dictionary, plus it only cost 8 bucks. If you are looking for something that has every detail on the subject just keep looking. If you need something that gives a good overview and makes a good book to throw in a gig bag, this is the book you are looking for.

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Further titles in this exciting new pocket sized series, designed to make music technology simple.

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Basic Mastering (The Basic Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is extremely small, but still, it could have been shortened into a few concise paragraphs.
The first third of the book is a repetitious litany on how to splice tape, label boxes and use a DAT. It haphazardly hints at the numerous steps one most go through to prepare the audio for reproduction. Then states that if you're going to burn a Red book CD, none of this is necessary. Good then, let's skip it.
The second third is about how to cut and paste digital audio using editing software. If you've ever used audio software then you can skip this part too. Actually if you even have audio software, you're better off just playing around with it, so you should skip it also.
The last third is a glossary. Yes, an entire third of the book is an appendix. It gives the definition of many useful industry terms. For instance, STEREO, WAH-PEDAL, TRACK, and VOLT.
Example:
VOLT,
A unit for measuring electricity.
I would skip it.

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Further titles in this exciting new pocket sized series, designed to make music technology simple.

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Sonic Alchemy: Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings (Book) Review

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(More customer reviews)David N. Howard does a wonderful job showing how the folks behind the scenes created not only unique songs, but entire genres of music.From Rock and Roll to Dub, to Avant-Garde, and even Hip Hop, this book explains the birth of some of the most influential facets of contemporary music.Mr. Howard's enthusiasm for the music caused me to listen to familiar music in a new light and gave me a new found appreciation for music I had previously not enjoyed.

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You may not have heard of them, but you have certainly heard their songs! From the lo-fidelity origins of early pioneers to today's dazzling technocrats, the role of the music producer is as murkily undefined as it is wholly essential. Sonic Alchemy: Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings is an exploration of the influence of the often colorful, idiosyncratic, and visionary music producers through popular music and the fascinatingly crucial role they have played in shaping the way we hear pop music today. Sonic Alchemy is nothing short of the secret history of the music producer.

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Basic Mixers (Music Technology Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Paul White has written a small format, straightforward, up to date, no-nonsense book about mixing audio signals either in a studio environment or for live sound. Despite its diminutive size (this book will actually fitin any pocket), there is a lot of information presented in a logical andconcise manner, with illustrations, a table of contents and a helpful44-page glossary section at the end. It feels decidedly British in sentencestructure and spelling ("equaliser" instead of"equalizer" etc.) The lack of an index is almost unnoticed,because of the logical flow of information; the table of contents helps inzeroing in on the precise location of the information being sought out.Being a part-time home recording hobbyist, this book has clarified severalconcepts in mixing for me. For just a little more than the price of amagazine, I wholeheartedly recommend this 207 page book to anyoneinterested in mixing live or studio sounds. By the way 1) the title of thebook is actually "basic mixers" and 2) this is only one of aseries of books from the same author on several topics in modern audiorecording and production techniques (published in 1999-2000 by the BritishSound on sound magazine). I am seriously thinking about getting a couplemore of these guides...

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What are mixers? How do digital and analogue mixers work? How are they used in recording and live situations? It's all here, in simple terms.

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Basic Microphones (Music Technology Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book delivers what it promises. It would be of little or no use to a recording engineer of someone who already knows a lot about recording but that is not the target audience of this little tome. The target is people who want to learn more about microphones but who know little or nothing to begin with.

The book starts off with a little bit of basic information on sound and then turns to a discussion of different types of microphones. The pros and cons of each type are briefly reviewed. This is in terms of directionality and in terms of type of recording elements. From there, the book moves on to discussion of how best to mic different situations like vocals, strings, piano and drums. My one complaint is that there is nothing on wind instruments.

One peculiarity of this book is a result of it coming from Britain. That means that some terms may not be familiar to American readers. Condenser replaces capacitor and valve replaces tube. This should not cause any problem but it may throw some people at first.

For many people, this may well be the only book ever to be needed on the subject of microphones. At the very least, it is a good introduction at an excellent price.

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The experience of decades in a few pages: how microphones work, what the various types do, and how to use them in just about any musical situation.

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