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Summary: clear and specific
Review: I've used or tried to use at least a dozen books on this subject and this one is far and away the most helpful I have come across. The presentation breaks the subject down into separate paragraphs and addresses them, so you're not wading through a lot of information you don't need to get to what you do need. A lot of technical guides tend to wander around, working from the general to the specific, but this one aims at answering specific questions and keeps the generalities in their own place. Well illustrated and organized.
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Summary: If you need to know it....its in this book.
Review: I've waded through several books which claim to be all you need, but this is it. I am a sound engineer for live theatre I haven't run into a problem yet that this book hasn't had the answer to, and in semi-laymen's terms. Gary Davis is my hero.
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Summary: Sound Engineering 101 in one book
Review: If you are going to regularly use Sound Equipment, you want this book. Reading this book will enable you to learn 3 things: 1) How sound equipment works 2) How to set up and operate it 3) The basics of electricity and sound physics. If you master the information contained in this book you will be a very effective engineer.
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Summary: Excellent practical book on audio engineering
Review: If you can only get one book on audio, this is it.Covers every part of practical analog audio from sound,mics, preamps, mixers,loudspeakers, processors,cabling.test equip, midi, synchronization.The only thing is no digital or computer info, that maybe in next editon
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Summary: Awesome amount of info. on sound reinforcement.
Review: It's been more than 10 years since I got this book. It's one great source of my technical resources. I wrote a korean book called 'Sound System Handbook" about 10 years ago. It's not a denible thing to say that this book was a lot of good reference to my book. If you are new in this business, ask anyone who is in this business, they'll tell you about this book, I'm sure. You know what? it's been over 10 years, but it's still second edition. You have to have a strong knowledge. It's a great investment not just buying a book.
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Summary: Bible for all kinds of Sound Engineers,
Review: It's been more than 10 years since I got this book. It's one great source of my technical resources. I wrote a korean book called 'Sound System Handbook" about 10 years ago. It's not a denible thing to say that this book was a lot of good reference to my book. If you are new in this business, ask anyone who is in this business, they'll tell you about this book, I'm sure. You know what? it's been over 10 years, but it's still second edition. You have to have a strong knowledge. It's a great investment not just buying a book.
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Summary: Bible for all kinds of Sound Engineers,
Review: It's been more than 10 years since I got this book. It's one great source of my technical resources. I wrote a korean book called 'Sound System Handbook" about 10 years ago. It's not a denible thing to say that this book was a lot of good reference to my book. If you are new in this business, ask anyone who is in this business, they'll tell you about this book, I'm sure. You know what? it's been over 10 years, but it's still second edition. You have to have a strong knowledge. It's a great investment not just buying a book.
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Summary: Good stuff and not so good
Review: More in depth than most of the offerings and in the main a valiant effort biting off a bit more than the author was qualified to chew.
Like its sponsor YAMAHA who makes great keyboards, mixing consoles, digital signal processors or system controllers and high frequency amplifiers, BUT very mediocre speakers and microphones; this book has its strong suits and its weak ones. The trick is figuring out which is which.
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Summary: Recommended by Sound Equipment Manufacturer
Review: My name is Sean, I work as a salesperson for the Carvin Corporation. I highly recommend this book for those who will be starting their first sound system or those who encounter various situations (different types of rooms, different instrumentation, etc.).
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Summary: The Live Sound and Recording Bible
Review: There aren't many things that recording engineers agree on. Sure we all like Neumann microphones, Neve Mic Pre's, and Studer 2 inch machines, but when it comes to things that the average studio can afford, there is much dissention. That is not the case with this book. Without fail, every single audio engineer I've met learned SOMETHING from reading the Sound Reinforcement handbook. Collected in these pages is the wisdom of a generation of Audio Engineers, and given that our field is one that is so much based on oral tradition, a book like this is invaluable for someone who doesn't have the time or inclination to learn things in the traditional way by hanging around in recording studios working for free. If you want to do anything in audio technology it would behoove you to learn this book backwards and forwards, because it contains between it's covers one of the most thorough and balanced presentations ever written on the topic. A great book.
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