Re: GG: Sound recording resources?

["John P. Hill" <jphill@frank.mtsu.edu>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Ethan Prater wrote:

> Is there another source for books by these authors, perhaps an audio
> engineering trade organization, publishers' collective, or specialty
> textbook distributor?

I would think that any major bookseller could handle this.  Here in
Nashville we have Hastings, Media Play and Tower Books to name a few.
There was a very good place in LA that I used to buy from when I lived out
there:  OP AMP TECHNICAL BOOKS.  I don't know if you live out in that neck
of the woods, though...

> I've been trying to order Woram and Eargle books via major online
> bookstores over the past few weeks with absolutely no success -- even for
> those that are listed as available, I'll eventually get a notice that the
> vendor hasn't been able to obtain the book.

Hmmmmmm....I've had good luck with Amazon before.  They even managed to
locate an impossible-to-find book called "Acoustics and The Performance of
Music by Jurgen Meyer, which only seems to be available in specialty,
German bookstores.  It's an excellent source for information on musical
acoustics, auditoria and recording.

> I'm especially interested in Woram's "Sound Recording Handbook" and
> Eargle's "Music, Sound, and Technology."

The original Woram is *way* out of print, but he has a newer one (slightly
different title) that was published by SAMS and shouldn't be too hard to
find.  If you want the stuff from the original Woram text, I would suggest
contacting Alan Kefauver (sorry, I don't have his address handy at the
moment) and ask how to get a copy of his new book, which has lots of the
stuff from the old Woram text reproduced verbatim.  Kefauver is at the
Peabody Conservatory.  I'll try to dig around for his e-mail address...

cheers,

jh