Sound Engineering Explained, 2nd Edition

Preface

This book has had two previous incarnations. It first appeared in 1994 under the heading of Audio Recording and Reproduction: Practical Measures for Audio Enthusiasts. Gratifyingly, only three years later, there was a need for a second edition and the publishers, feeling quite rightly that the original title was rather cumbersome, suggested a new title and a revision of the whole book. It then appeared as Audio Explained.

The aim of the original was to make it easier for people without professional equipment to make recordings of a very respectable standard for whatever purpose – I suggested conductors of amateur choirs or orchestras, teachers who needed to develop their own audio-visual material, members of drama groups, and so on. I ...