The Basics of Live Sound : Tips, Techniques and Lucky Guesses

Rating:
Summary: Not much there.
Review: This book is a waste of time. What a disappointment. I've been doing live sound for years, and am interested in tips on how to improve. The advice in this book is so basic and general as to be useless. Talk to others, Slone recommends. Duh. There are a couple tips on mic placement worth thinking about (how to mic a guitar amp to get various tonal qualities). Not much else for anyone with any experience at all.

Could this be targeted for the rank beginner? If so, it fails there as well. One might expect that this book would run through the basics of how to hook up a sound system. What cable plugs in where? But it doesn't. If you're a beginner, you're just as clueless after reading this as if you'd never picked it up. Heck, you might even be more confused.

No desctiptions of what all those gadgets in the rack are and how to use them.

I feel bad about being so negative, and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings - but this book is quite worthless.