Audio Engineering 101

Preface

Audio engineering is layered with many disciplines such as acoustics, physics, technology, art, psychology, electronics, and music. Each layer provides a new set of questions, answers, theories, and concepts. You soon realize that you will never know it all. This guide encompasses many aspects of audio engineering and includes a dose of reality. This is a hard business, but if you are willing to put forth the time and effort, you may end up with a job you love.

The goal of this book is to explain audio engineering and music production in an easy-to-understand guide. After ten years of teaching Audio Engineering courses at Austin Community College, two years of lecturing at The University of Texas, and twenty-five years of engineering ...