Professional Audio Reference Resources

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:45 pm

Hear ye, hear ye. Below is a list of recommended reading and technical references. If you notice a link no longer works, please let me know.

Rane Professional Audio Reference:
(You will be so busy reading this stuff on the john, your legs will fall asleep.)
http://www.rane.com/digi-dic.html

Crown Audio Professional System Design Tools:
(Suck at math? Plug and play numbers baby!)
http://www.crownaudio.com/amp_htm/designstools.htm

JBL Professional Technical Library:
(This has good stuff about system concepts, design and integration, applicable to all manufacturers.)
http://www.jblpro.com/pages/tech_lib.htm

Peavey Tech Notes:
(Easy to understand how-to's from some of the nicest, down to earth educators like Marty McCann.)
http://www.peavey.com/support/technotes/

DPA Microphones:
(Click the Microphone University icon, 4th one down on the left. Learn about microphone positioning, configurations, etc.)
http://www.dpamicrophones.com/

RO Admin Joined: Mar 20, 2000 Posts: 4269 Location: Canada

Hey sheet, excellent idea! Here is one of ours as well...
http://www.recording.org/glossary

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:08 pm

If you're interested, I have posted several tutorials @ http://www.whalco.ca

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:07 pm

Meyer has some technical papers on their site. Great for the resident nerd, some might even find them interesting. Smile

http://www.meyersound.com/products/technology/

as well as Martin Audio, though not as much,

http://www.martin-audio.com/softtech/technical.html

Soundcraft has some great online booklets, papers and resources for both studio and live work,

http://www.soundcraft.com/palz.asp

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:19 pm

Sweetwater.com has an amazingly helpful glossary with fairly in depth explanations of everything. They even have an archive of common problems/questions that I've found EXTREMELY useful.

It's an amazing reference for hours of reading

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