Winner Announced: Win the Book/CD “Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals”
“Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals” is a book/CD combination designed to get your ears in shape so you’re more effective in the studio. Win your own copy. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! One random commenter will be chosen as winner. Too easy.
Winner Announced
This week’s winner (picked at random) is the mysteriously named “J”, who left the insightful comment, “Niceeeee”. Congratulations, J – you will be contacted by email, and we’ll ship the book to you ASAP. We’re sure it’s as niceeeee as you’re expecting.
Thanks to the rest of you who left a comment. It sounds like a lot of you are pretty interested in the book. As Piet commented, “I like the fact that it comes with a CD. I’ve read books on audio before, but sometimes I just dont get it, especially not having studied audio professionally, heavy terminology goes in the one ear and out the other. Some things are just better explained through audio when it comes to audio ;) Right fellas?”
So if you weren’t lucky enough to win this time, and still want the book, check out the Amazon link below. And stay tuned for our next competition!
Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals
About the book: Audio productions are made or broken by the quality of the recording engineer’s ears. The ability to properly discern sounds, identify subtle problems, and act accordingly to apply the necessary fix makes all the difference in the quality of the final tracks and master. The good news is that these crucial skills can be learned. The ability to instantly identify frequencies, hear hidden distortions, and instinctively reconcile conflicts in the EQ of instruments, audio elements, vocals and more are traits of those who have mastered the art of audio production. The best engineers have trained their ears to immediately recognize audio problems that the consumer and those new to recording arts would likely not hear, but that, if left unresolved, would result in an amateurish final product. For more than two decades, students of F. Alton Everest’s Critical Listening and Auditory Perception courses have rapidly developed these skills by using the intense lessons found in this book and on the CD. Unfortunately the books and CDs included with the course were usually too expensive for aspiring engineers to purchase and were often available only in colleges, universities, or school libraries. Now for the first time these indispensable training sessions are available with this release of Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals. Through hundreds of illustrations and an accompanying disc containing high-resolution MP3 files with nearly five hours of narration of the entire course, you can acquire the audio discernment skills of a seasoned recording engineer by studying this course at your own pace, in your own home.
About the author: The late F. Alton Everest (1909-2005) was the most respected audiologist in the professional recording industry. His revered works and courses produced more than twenty books and editions in his lifetime, including The Master Handbook of Acoustics, Audio Techniques for the Home and Studio, and How to Build a Small Budget Recording Studio from Scratch … With 12 Tested Designs. As the supervisor of UC San Diego’s Listening Section Laboratory during WWII, Everest conducted underwater sound research experiments for the war effort. For 25 years he produced science fi lms for the renowned Moody Institute of Science, followed by years teaching and working as a highly sought after audio consultant.
For the chance to win a hardback copy of “Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals” (pictured above) all you need to do is comment. Make sure to include your correct email address with your comment so that we can contact you. This giveaway is open worldwide, but make sure to get your comment in before midnight this Saturday, Pacific Eastern Standard Time.
If you miss out, and would still like a copy of the book, check it out at Amazon.com.
Please note: Envato staff and people who have written more than two tutorials/articles for a Tuts+ site are not eligible to enter.
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Yep this sounds to be a VERY useful guide !! Good luck every body :)
I would love to have it!
Sounds like it could help my untrained ears.
Yes, this looks like a great reference. It’s been on my wish list for quite some time. Maybe time to get it – and to work with it!
This book has been on my wish list for some time. Maybe time to get it, and to work with it!
YEAAAAAAH !
At last a book about mixing,
youhou !
dope stuff.
Niiiice
strada@stradagized.com
Looks good :). Great site guys.
I’ll give this a go.
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Yeah, I want this book/CD. It sounds really great to me.
So hope the force will bring luck to me!
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Good luck everyone!
:)
I need THAT!
Pick me ;-)
Why not
It should be a great book to have. I hope I win :)
I’ll yet be reading and re-reading the stuff from Audiotuts
Cheers guys
I want it! Yeah!
What about non-professionals? I’ve been reading and reading and I think my mixing skills are improving but I still feel like there’s a skills gap. Seems like the book/CD combo have the potential to go a long way to closing the gap.
I’m in.
wow!
well… I WANT THAT BOOK!
Great!
Could be a cool book.
I want this book.
I would love to win.
This would be a fantastic book to own.
I will be the winner ;)
I’ve heard parts of this before.. Very cool indeed..
good luck all!
I actually bought this book,
and just wanted to add that if you don’t win, you should seriously consider buying it. But do not consider it a single-read, been there done that thing; you need to practice the stuff in here, redo the tests and keep working at it.
The book points you in the direction of listening skills that will benefit you as a mixer/producer/engineer.
Cheers!
i am a lucky winner! *eyes shut fingers crossed*
Let’s have it then ;)
I´ll take my chances ^^
woo hoo
hi, this book are going to be very helpful in a online course about music production.
thnks.
That’s something useful, I would lie to have it :)
Great giveaway.
Even if I don’t win this, I’ll probably buy the book – time to get the ears in shape. :-)
I need to educate my ears, reading alone can only get you so far!
Would love to win it!
Emmett
what say wha?
donkeys! i want this book as im studying sound engineering at college and it would come in handy
Yep sounds like a great book. Gimme a copy :)
This sounds like a book for me. I was recently listening to a podcast comparing different mics and mic placements on guitar amps, and I really had trouble distinguishing anything besides “there’s more bass in that one”…
may i have it? looks interesting!
ooh I wanted this…