How to use this book
While you may choose to read this book from cover to cover, it is essentially designed as a ‘dip-in’ book. You will see that the beginning pages are concerned with the job of the sound team and the problems they may face with the acoustics of the environment in which they have to work.
To help you make really good recordings, this is followed by a short explanation of the electricity and physics that you will need to understand if you want to be a good sound recordist.
There is a section to help you make a sensible choice from all the different microphones you may have discovered ‘in the cupboard’.
The problems you will face on location are dealt with separately to the problems of studio recording, as are the different ...
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