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Title: Art of Digital Audio, Third Edition by John Watkinson ISBN: 0-240-51587-0 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Well written technical overview, short of the computer age
Comment: The Art of Digital Audio is well written and informative technical overview of digital audio, except that being a mid 1990s book, it almost completely omits detailed coverage of some topics (like MPEG audio compression) that would nowadays have to be considered critical. It is nonetheless an essential component of the well informed digital audio engineer's library. There is a *lot* of stuff in this compendium that you would otherwise have to find scattered over a dozen other books. One hopes a revision for the twenty-first century is in the works.
Rating: 3
Summary: copyright 1894^H^H^H994.
Comment: This book has all the details of doing digital audio, starting with banging two rocks together to start a fire, and quickly progressing to the development of western civilization. ... ok, it's not *quite* that bad. But there is precious little relevant information to any modern project. When your car's mp3 player is running Linux, who cares that Gray codes are the way to go for digital tape positioning? Who needs to be told that you might want to think about doing a calculation in RAM instead of with discrete digital components? There's a good chapter on "advanced digital audio processing". And it explains basic things about dithering, mixing, gain control, etc. But on the whole this book is very geared toward antiquated hardware, rather than presenting theories or algorithms that are relevant to all digital systems. I guess that's why it's the "art" and not the principles of digital audio. In the index you will find "cylinder transducer", but not "pitch" or "tempo".
Rating: 5
Summary: It might as well be the Bible, cos it's all covered here.
Comment: If you're afraid this book may be too much for you, get Ken Pohlman's 'Principles of Digital Audio' first. Then if you didn't learn what you wanted to know there, Watkinson is the next step.
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Title: Principles of Digital Audio by Ken C. Pohlmann ISBN: 0071348190 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Art of Digital Video by John Watkinson ISBN: 0240515862 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science by Bob Katz ISBN: 0240805453 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards by Marina Bosi, Richard E. Goldberg, Leonardo Chiariglione ISBN: 1402073577 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Master Handbook of Acoustics by F. Alton Everest ISBN: 0071360972 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Pub. Date: 22 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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