Recording Studio Technology, Maintenance, and Repairs : Everything You Need to Properly Care for Your Equipment

Having grown up in an electronic repair shop, I guess I was hoping for more...overall this is a good book to explain the basics

Practical! No theory, just facts! This book is awesome! I am a semi-professional recording engineer and I was thinking about building my own studio when I discovered this book. My degree is in electrical engineering but all of my "school house" theory is useless in the real world of stray electromagnetic fields, studio grounding techniques and tape machine repair. Therefore this book is worth its weight in gold! The chapter on patchbays alone is worth the price. I can already tell that just like a motorcycle repair manual, I need two of these. Once clean reference for the bookshelf and one for the shop. I am VERY grateful that Mr. McCartney decided to write this book.

I was looking for a new textbook for my audio electronics / studio maintenance class that I teach. I saw this book and bought it right away thinking it would be perfect. There's some good information here, but it's not organized very well and the diagrams and pictures are really low quality.

This book was a terrible purchase. To think that this author teaches somewhere is knowing some willing students are getting ripped off. The info is sub par, the images are unrecognizable (photographed with a rock) and a completely useless book. Unless of course you need to get a fire going or balance a table.

i got this book as part of my class material so you know it has some valuable information. short and quick read.

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This book is very poor indeed. The text is minimal and uninformative, and the photographs used throughout are dark and grainy, poorly taken and poorly reproduced. There is rarely if ever enough text around them to explain their purpose or significance, or indeed enough text in general to sufficiently explain any of the topics supposedly covered. The author may be a fine technician but he is a bad writer, and this book has been thrown together with little care, thought, or structure. Where he tries to get technical it is at best confusing and at worst wrong. The majority of chapters include less than two pages of text (in a pretty big font). Chapter seven consists of four short sentences and two tables which might be useful if you already know what they are all about. There is absolutely no indication of why they are important and how they might be used. Throughout the book there are lots of unexplained figures, tables, lists, and diagrams.One or two glimmers of potential show through. The chapters on reconing speakers and servicing faders could be quite good with a bit of work. With a lot more time and effort invested this could be turned into a useful reference, but as it is, it's a confusing mess, and a waste of money.