Every website must have a links page. It's in the rules, innit?
Climate Camp - because trashing the environment is not ok.
The Olive Branch
- where the discerning sound engineer gets his comestibles. Because to
buy unfairly traded goods is to cross a picket line populated by the
most desperate people on the planet.
Robert Newman - author, comedian, inspiration.
Audio Links
Speakerplans.Com
- of course
if you're handy with a saw it is still just about worth building your
own speakers, particularly if your requirements cannot be met from the
second hand market. In ye olde days one would send off a postal order
for seventeen shillings and sixpence and get a slim volume of cabinet
designs through the post several weeks later. Now it's all on
t'bleedin' internet. But, really, my single most heavily recommended
page on this site is the Pro Audio Quiz, which is required reading for
any would-be sound-person. Alas, it seems to be broken at the moment...
Rane Glossary - an a-to-z of useful audio terms most notable for the inclusion of "conjobble" and absence of "critical distance"
Epanorama
- don't waste your time with my feeble links page - these people have everything (probably).
JBL Professional Sound System Design Manual pt 1 & pt 2 - a hefty tome including the crucial wisdom about critical distance (but no conjbbles).
Elliot Sound Products - back
in the day people like me used to build power amplifiers and mixing
desks and so on because it was cheaper than trying to buy the same
equipment. Word hasn't reached Australia where Rod Elliot has a mighty
website with all manner of designs & circuit boards for interesting
projects, and also some illuminating ruminations.
ProSoundWeb - a range of
forums* where innocent would-be sound people pose dim questions and
ageing blowhards shoot them down. But actually a pretty good read.
(*actually the plural is fora, but you knew that anyhow...)
Filter - basically a
trade journal for an Australian audio concern, but notable for some
fine articles in their sporadic publication "Filter", particularly the
series called The Birth of The Array (at least for people like me who get exercised about issues like phase cancellation). And with a picture of the sound system used by the world's biggest band in the early 70's.
More links at some random point in the future.
Send me an encouraging email : mailto:BD9[at]phonecoop.coop