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The Audio Expert is a comprehensive reference book covering all aspects of audio, with both practical and theoretical explanations. It is written for people who want to understand audio at the deepest, most technical level, but without needing an engineering degree. The Audio Expert explains how audio really works in much more depth than usual, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math. It uses an easy to read conversational tone, and includes more than 400 figures and photos to augment the printed text.However, this book goes 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. It also describes in great detail many practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers, including video production and computers. This book is meant for intermediate to advanced recording engineers and audiophiles who want to become experts. There’s plenty for beginners too.One unique feature is explaining how audio devices such as equalizers, compressors, and A/D converters work internally, and how they’re spec’d and tested, rather than merely describing how to use them. There’s plenty of myth-busting and consumerism too. The book doesn’t tell readers what brand power amplifier to buy, but it explains in great detail what defines a good amplifier so people can choose a first-rate model wisely without over-paying.Most explanations throughout the book are platform-agnostic, applying equally to Windows and Mac computers, and to most software and hardware. Many audio and video examples are included to enhance the written text. The new edition offers many updates and improvements throughout. New sections on coding an equalizer, comparing microphone preamps, testing results of loudspeaker isolation devices, new online video content on music theory, plus incorporated chapters on MIDI basics, computers, video production, plus new myth-busters, and much more!

The Audio Expert is a comprehensive reference book covering all aspects of audio, with both practical and theoretical explanations. It is written for people who want to understand audio at the deepest, most technical level, but without needing an engineering degree. The Audio Expert explains how audio really works in much more depth than usual, using common sense plain-English explanations and mechanical analogies, with minimal math. It uses an easy to read conversational tone, and includes more than 400 figures and photos to augment the printed text.However, this book goes 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. It also describes in great detail many practices and techniques used by recording and mixing engineers, including video production and computers. This book is meant for intermediate to advanced recording engineers and audiophiles who want to become experts. There’s plenty for beginners too.One unique feature is explaining how audio devices such as equalizers, compressors, and A/D converters work internally, and how they’re spec’d and tested, rather than merely describing how to use them. There’s plenty of myth-busting and consumerism too. The book doesn’t tell readers what brand power amplifier to buy, but it explains in great detail what defines a good amplifier so people can choose a first-rate model wisely without over-paying.Most explanations throughout the book are platform-agnostic, applying equally to Windows and Mac computers, and to most software and hardware. Many audio and video examples are included to enhance the written text. The new edition offers many updates and improvements throughout. New sections on coding an equalizer, comparing microphone preamps, testing results of loudspeaker isolation devices, new online video content on music theory, plus incorporated chapters on MIDI basics, computers, video production, plus new myth-busters, and much more!

The Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules—“building blocks” —that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps, and an analog synthesizer.Offering a range of tutorial advice that covers capacitor selection, multi-layer PC board design, and more, each circuit in this book is also provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects. It includes detailed explanations of every type of active filter commonly used for audio, along with a spreadsheet that calculates their component values, as well as Ohm’s Law and Decibels spreadsheets.Providing practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits using minimal math and theory, this is an ideal manual for intermediate audio professionals, hobbyists, and students coming to audio electronics from non-engineering backgrounds. Professional engineers will find much of value as well in the complete and tested circuits.

The Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules—“building blocks” —that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps, and an analog synthesizer.Offering a range of tutorial advice that covers capacitor selection, multi-layer PC board design, and more, each circuit in this book is also provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects. It includes detailed explanations of every type of active filter commonly used for audio, along with a spreadsheet that calculates their component values, as well as Ohm’s Law and Decibels spreadsheets.Providing practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits using minimal math and theory, this is an ideal manual for intermediate audio professionals, hobbyists, and students coming to audio electronics from non-engineering backgrounds. Professional engineers will find much of value as well in the complete and tested circuits.

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.