Re: [ARSCLIST] Best Primers on Sound

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brad:

One book I found accessible and well-written was "Digital Audio Workstation" by Colby Leider -- I 
already knew a lot of the material but definitely picked up some info and enjoyed the writing style. 
Also, in the user manual for Diamond Cut 6 (available online, I think) there are a lot of 
backgrounders in the appendices.  Also, David Miles Huber (spelling might be wrong) wrote the manual 
for CoolEdit 2000, which might be floating around in PDF format somewhere and it had a lot of useful 
background material in it. If you want to focus more on audio, well you can't beat Glen Ballou's 
"Handbook for Sound Engineers," but that's a steep coin for a student. However, if the student goes 
into an audio-related field, they have purchased a life-long reference book.

-- Tom Fine


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucas, Brad" <B.E.Lucas2@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:59 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Best Primers on Sound


Hi Folks:

I was hoping to draw on the collective knowledge of this list and see what sort of reading material 
you'd suggest for students who want to do independent study in sound, digital sound files, and 
recording. Any help would be appreciated, on or off list.

Thanks!
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Brad E. Lucas
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English, Box 297270
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas 76129
Office: (817) 257-6981 Fax: (817) 257-6238

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From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List on behalf of Joav Shdema
Sent: Tue 2/7/2006 4:41 PM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Coffee Cassette



I have a similar story of cassette restoration, but in this case
restoration was performed. 3 weeks ago I received a 30 something years
old C-60 Philips cassette. The leader end was broken and the whole tape
was rolled at one end. Apparently a quick fix 'n transfer job. Not so.
We've spliced the tape back and started playing it just to find it was
twisted in several places in a spaghetti like string. The audio was
going forward and then, several minutes down the tape, backwards and
back again.
We had to take all the tape out of the shell and IRON it inch by inch
back to manageable and playable condition. The person who performed the
ironing didn't move his feet for over an hour not to step over the
spillage on the floor while I was de-tangling the tape as we slowly
pulled the ironed tape back into a new clean shell.
Instead of a 1 hour job it became a 5 hour job and the client went with
it - good nerve breaking exercise.

Joav Shdema
Producer/Engineer
Joav Shdema Inc.
dB Recording Studios Inc.
www.joavshdema.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard L. Hess
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:06 PM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Coffee Cassette


Someone sent me a cassette that had been steeped in coffee--suspected
with sugar and creamer...the layers were glued together.

It was a Radio Shack cassette and was very very fragile, too.
Normally, polyester cassette tapes are robust, this one if looked at
wrong tore. I wonder if the coffee/sugar/creamer had weakened it.

With all the concerns about it, we pulled the life support plug 30
minutes into the project when my estimate of cost to complete
skyrocketed. Since I couldn't do anything, I didn't charge for the 30
minutes, either.

I think it could be done, but it would take several hours of careful
washing. She's going to re-do the interview rather than spend that
kind of money. I would want a serpentine film-type drying rack to dry
it, too.

Anyone ever had success with this?

Cheers,

Richard



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