I'm trying to help a fellow PG'er get his feet wet in understanding basics of audio and signal processing.

My problem is twofold in being helpful:

1. I've mixed live sound since I was about 16 years old - I'm now in my 40's. I can't even remember how I learned the practical side of things.

2. I'm an engineer and have gone through engineering courses on and off since I was about that same age including graduate level digital signal processing classes, with all of the Laplace and z transforms and bode plots you can shake a stick at. My mind immediately goes there when trying to explain things.

So when someone asks; what's a high-pass filter? Or what does multi-band compression do? In my mind, it's kind of bog-standard stuff, but there has to be a nice book that summarizes this without obliterating the reader with geek-talk and differential equations.

I have found a couple on Amazon.com, like one by this guy: Roey Izhaki, which when looking at the available table of contents, index contents and some sample pages, might just be the answer.

But who here has an opinion? There's a fellow PG'er that could use some help. Looked at Audiominds.com on Mixing, and even there, it kind of assumes a certain base level of understanding.

-Scott

-Scott

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