Music Engineering
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Author(s): R. Brice
Publisher: Newnes
ISBN: 0750650400
Format: softback + CD-ROM
481pp
Price: £21.99
Review Date: 06 November 2001
Review: This practical guide to electric and electronic music is aimed at electronic engineers (working mainly in the audio field) and students and musicians involved in electronic and electrical music. This new edition includes the basic theory of electronics that is needed to understand the text. There are chapters on: microphones and their applications; valve technology; electric instruments; electronic effects; electronic synthesis; sequencers and MIDI; sound recording; digital audio; stereo and spatial sound; recording consoles; amplifiers loudspeakers; and video and synchronisation. The CD contains over 50 tracks, with demonstrations of the effects and techniques that are described in the book.