Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #241453 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02
• Released on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Easy reading
This is a good serie's of books,they are small enough to carry anywhere and have enough information to get things running smoothly

Everything I my mixer manual didn't tell me.
This book is great. I am a home recordist. I have just recorded myself alone even though I have this big 48 track recording console. I had a few questions about the way stuff worked. How do you use the monitoring/auxiler channels to set up a headphone mix? This book answered that question and many more. It didn't seem boring, it was a 2-3 hour read, going from interesting topic to interestic topic. The book just seemed to explain everything I wanted to know, and touch up on it enough times to drill it into my ADD-injungled (is that a word?) brain. Like it had a little bitty live section that explained what engineers are doing when they ring out a PA, explained pink noise, and just about everything you could expect to see on any console. This isn't a book for those "wanting" to buy a console, or people who "think" they know the basics, you'll be lost and bash it. But if you already know quite a lot about signal flow, and CARE to learn more, you will absolutly love this book. I plan on reading again in a few weeks, there are a bazillion little tips that I am happy knowing before going into my first session with a band. This little-bitty book is supurb. NOTE: I found a lot of the material in this book at...The author is the leading writer for that magazine. For [$$$], you have no excuse why not to give this book a shot though!

Look Elsewhere
Paul White has a nice little earner going with these titles. They actually tell you very little specific, practical information about each subject. They do however contain a lot of generalisations which anyone with a slight understanding of audio engineering could come up with. The book on digital audio didn't even include a means of calculating how much disk space is required for digital audio files, something that is very important as well as fundamental to the subject. Every book also contains between 50 and 70 pages of the same glossary.