Audio Engineering 101: A Beginner's Guide to Music Production

This book is a very good starting point for a person who is looking to progress a little farther in their home studio. It teaches the most important fundamentals without getting too dry, and it keeps things moving along and interesting.But there's a strange juxtaposition of day one mixing lessons and instruction on dealing with customers in a commercial recording studio. I can't fathom how there could be a person who would find both of these things useful simultaneously. I would hope that by the time a person has a studio and is booking time, they would have long known not to mix in solo too much. Also, some of the illustrations come across as a lot of filler. Do we really need two drawings of people sitting at a desk talking about pricing for studio time taking up a quarter of a page?I'm glad I bought this book though. However, I recommend it only to someone who wants a quick and dirty (albeit thorough) lesson on the fundamentals, and I suggest to that person that they continue their education after this book with other books that go into these concepts in more depth.

Can't find the video examples. The audioengineering101.com web site has expired, and since I just paid for the book that is disappointing. They are still taking money, but not supplying all the content.

Almost 30 years out of college and she wanted something just like this.Had it about a few weeks and someone stole it!Those darned, slippery Cable Access types!

A true basics 101. I bought this for my niece . I only wish someone would have given me this book when I was a kid. Very useful

This book is great to have simply for its table of contents which you can use to go on line with to get 4 or 5 different explanations for the same concepts listed in this book...and you'll want to get other explanations because the ones in this book are not the be all and end all and the topics covered need varying degrees of repetition, review, and different languaging for everyone to fully understand.

Very nice book if your a beginner to audio engineering. Or if you're experienced but need a reference book with newer technologies.

Well write and full of useful information, funny at times too!

Works fine without go deep into knowledge. It’s proposal is to give introductory information and it does it well

I bought this book after reading a bit of the first chapter on the basics of sound (frequencies, wave forms, etc). While I realise that I could have gotten this mostly from Wikipedia or other sources, I was hoping that the rest of the book would continue in this vein of actually discussing audio engineering.Instead what I got was a chapter on the top ten microphones (did this guy just pull this straight from a Gear Slutz thread?!), a chapter on how to 'talk lingo' with a band, and how to act as an audio engineer.If you are looking for a serious book on engineering don't waste your time with this book. Completely avoid... It's also pretty poorly written/edited but that is a whole other issue.

As a complete novice or tyro to the world of sound engineering this book does a great job of covering all the basics as well as general advice given in a way that makes you feel the author is right there with youI really appreciated the last chapter with all those varied frequently asked questions I am too afraid to ask pros - and to be honest I don't know where to find such people so this was a real gemA great all around buy!

Great wee book covers the basics. Try Hubers modern recording techniques after this.

Better than the 'for dummies' line of book.Very clear and not at all a dull read for the beginner.Quite happy

Before i bought this book i was clueless about audio engineering, however the description claimed to encompass almost everything i needed to know, and it sure did! this is an absolutely great book, great advice, great content, great read.