I know what you are going through, Scott.

Thinking back 4 or so decades to the time when I was first getting my feet wet in the sound reproduction game, there were of course *many* terminologies and concepts that were impossible to understand. As an impetulant youth, the wrong concept that I could somehow bypass the amount of time, study and practice needed to become proficient at the thing, a natural happenstance with being human, fools most of us into thinking that we can somehow bypass key conepts and still "get lucky" at our attempts to record music.

All that will only mean that it will take the noob longer than necessary to become adept in the care and feeding of sound reproduction equipments.

There is also a rather personal side to all of this. The fact is that there are some of us who are wired to "get into" the physics, the eletronics and the concepts involved - and there are likely many more of us who will not be able to get ourselves to do that.

However, the ability to have these wonderful and relatively inexpensive tools we have today, due to the digital revolution and home computers has put many people into the position where they either will have to "bite the bullet" and start in on learning these things, or at least find someone to work with who is willing to do so.

There are plenty of resources available for learning these concepts, more than ever before and many of them free online, etc.

However, if you find that you are of the type of personality whose eyes start to glaze over and mind starts to wander when confronted with explanations of the deciBel, the SPL, the sonic frequency spectrum, Hz and "Cycles per Second" references, talk of Octaves, Filter Slopes, Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release, the thing likely can look pretty darn imposing to you.

At that point all I can offer is that it takes TIME to learn how to do anything that is worth doing.

"The Physics of Music" -- there's a great old book by that name and now there are plenty of online resources available if you wish to do a websearch.

Start out in bite sized chunks that you can handle and try to understand each key concept before moving on. Don't expect to master those concepts the first time through. Do expect to understand it better by and by, if you continue to work with these things.


--Mac

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