Featured Book
Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook
By Bill Gibson
As the author of this book, I'd like to say that it is written specifically to help sound operators. It is not written to help design engineers or installers. If you want to do a better job at creating great sounds in the live sound world, this book is for you. It has helped a lot of people and is a very strong offering for sound operators who want practical solutions to everyday concerns.
Books at SFCC Library
- Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals Book/CD byCall Number: 621.3893 EVERESTThis book is actually a compilation of two of Alton Everest's ear training books. The first, Critical Listening Skills, plays different frequencies, amplitudes, bands, filters, amount of total harmonic distortion, and reverbs. Then you are forced to recognize changes within these different areas.The second, Auditory Perception, discusses issues relating to the differences between how sound occurs and how we actually perceive it.
- Guide to Sound Systems for Worship byCall Number: 621.3892 GUIDEProvides the basic information on sound systems that is most needed by ministers, members of boards of trustees and worship and music committees, interested members of congregations, and even employees of musical instrument dealers that sell sound systems.
- JBL Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcement byCall Number: 621.3893 EARGLEThe material is laid out in several thorough sections, beginning with the fundamentals of sound and acoustics, moving to descriptions of equipment, and finally practical applications and sound system design.
- Master Handbook of Acoustics byCall Number: 620.2 EVERESTLearn how to perform acoustic measurements, choose room dimensions, assign speaker placement, analyze response curves, and design and install sound absorbers and diffusers. You will also find details on how to fine-tune room reverberation, minimize external noise, and apply psychoacoustic concepts.
- So You Want to be a Soundman: Basic Sound Reinforcement for the Intersted Novice byCall Number: 621.3893 CARRThis book is for those with an ear for music, who believe they would be good at it...if only it didn't look so darn complicated! The little secret is this: It's not that hard.This wonderful little book will provide you with some very valuable information concerning the ins and outs of mixing sound.
- Sound Reinforcement Handbook byCall Number: 621.3893 DAVISThis book is the first and only book of its kind to cover all aspects of designing and using such systems for public address and musical performance.
- Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook byCall Number: 621.3893 GIBSONThis comprehensive handbook focuses on each aspect of live sound in a way that is straightforward and easy to understand, breaking the process down into principles and practices that assist the modern sound tech in everything from planning and budgeting to mixing and recording the live show.
- Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools (paperback) byCall Number: 621.3893 IZHAKIThis tome fills a huge gap in references on this topic in a very timely fashion. The author most definitely knows this material in-depth and, despite a few very minor glitches in the grammar, presents the concepts in a very well-thought out fashion. Nothing gets lost in translation.
Featured Book
Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals
It's actually kind of neat that someone wrote a book with exercises for gaining a certain skill in the music industry. This is rare, really rare. But these are WAY WAY basic skills. These are as entry level as it gets. If you are hard of hearing though and still insist on a career in audio tweeking, this might just be the book for you. It is hard to criticize this book because it is so thorough and actually does target some listening skills.