Greetings ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Web pages for Fundamentals of Audio Recording. These pages are intended to give you various kinds of information that will guide to do a greater understanding of audio recording fundamentals. Contained within these pages are hypertext links to various Web sites where further information can be found. As you explore the Web, and learn about the vast amount of information concerning audio recording contained in it, please feel free to report to me via email with any interesting sites you have found that are not listed here so that I may be able to include them where appropriate. (My email address is listed in the Table of Contents under Miscellaneous where there is also a pointer to my other Web sites)

At the close of the millennium, we find ourselves in a fascinationg time of innovation within the audio recording field. In fact the last 15 years has seen some truly remarkable innovations that are currently shaping the future of audio recording and sound design work. Among these innovations are the compact disc player, the musical instrument digital interface MIDI, digital audio recording, desktop audio production, compact disc and CD-ROM authoring, the World Wide Web as an audio playback device and a host of others. In fact, there have been so many new and startling innovations in audio recording and attendant fields (such as video, film, multimedia and alike) it is difficult to list them all. You may it find interesting to know, by way of an example, that I am currently sitting back in my easy chair speaking into a microphone and giving my computer dictation to create the content of these pages. While this is not strictly speaking audio recording it does give some insight into how sound will be used in the future to control systems - perhaps even those which record, mix and master audio recordings for high fidelity playback.

Since its origins nearly a half-century ago, the field of electro-acoustic music (electro-acoustic means, generally speaking, the use of both electrical and electronic devices for the recording, storage and transmission of sound) has indeed passed through a remarkable series of changes. New instruments and techniques, based upon the most recent technological innovations, have appeared regularly. These innovations often relegated the older techniques and technologies to the status of relics, and any text or teaching methodology can and does rather quickly become a historical artifact.

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