# The Music Tech Student

- **Price:** $20.00 (USD)
- **Author:** Elias James
- **Format:** Digital resource
- **Level / area:** Ensemble, Higher Education, Music Technology, Popular Music | Commercial Music, Secondary
- **Topics:** acoustics, audio processing, careers, daws, diy marketing, electronic music, Elias, James, live sound, music, music tech student, nature of sound, recording studios, S. Elias, S. Elias James, student, tech
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## Summary

#### by S. Elias James

**(102 pages)**

*This is an eBook for digital download.*

The Music Tech Student is a compendium of information covering every major music technology topic. It’s a concise and unbiased look at the basics without leaving anything out. You’ll find it’s a fantastic trove of just the right answers to the most common questions from topics including careers, the nature of sound, acoustics, recording studios, DAWs, electronic music, audio processing, live sound, and marketing.

## Description

While other books on tech usually dive deep into the author’s specialty or cover just a few subjects, *The Music Tech Student* is focused, concise, and exhaustive. According to Daniel Anderegg, at SUU, it’s “a logical music technology curriculum that flows well, and intelligently builds upon itself . . . I will be using as a reference in my own teaching.”

The book opens with some of the ways students can make money in music, whether in the industry or not. It then goes into detail about the nature of sound, how it works and how we record and reproduce it.

After that, it discusses recording studio roles and functions, acoustics, and gear/setup. The DAWs section introduces types of recording programs, cable types, latency, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering.

The section on electronic music covers digital notation, MIDI, synthesis, and sampling/libraries. Audio processing goes over basic audio effects and their main parameters, reverberation, filters, and a few advanced concepts. The live sound chapter covers PA signal flow, system types, speakers/amplifiers (parts and selection), documentation, microphones/polar patterns, mixers, and Ohm’s Law. Marketing goes over social media options, website types/builders, distribution, and graphic resources.

Each chapter is followed by 15 test questions, 10 more open-ended questions, a couple of bonus questions (that weren’t necessarily found in the text), and a couple of writing prompts. The goal of the book is to give you all the information you need. It isn’t an activity or project idea book, but an effective and complete reference for any teacher or student who wants to hit the ground running without tediously filtering through the blogosphere.

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