SENGPIELAUDIO - [the last word on audio engineering?]
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/index.html
or
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Calculations03.htm [if you don't speak German]
FAVOURITES ***
calculate the level of mixing up to 30 incoherent sources -
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-spl.htm ***
sound
pressure (SPL) drop off is to the inverse of distance (not the inverse square)
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distancelaw.htm
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AES/RANE PRO AUDIO REFERENCE - 'par' the definitive resource created by CEO of Rane, Dennis Bohn
http://www.aes.org/par/
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SOUND ON SOUND MAGAZINE - [the best online music magazine]
http://www.soundonsound.com/articles/Technique.php [EDIT, march 2011: Now with 'Reaper Notes', thanks to the forums own Geoffrey Francis, et. alia. and popular request I guess...]
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SHURE - [shure microphones have a lot of educational material online, but unfortunately much
of it is sadly dumbed down and more misleading than helpful. There are some useful articles, but
quite hard to find in all the sales pitches]
compare sensitivity data for two microphones -
http://shure.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/77
explanation of proximity effect -
http://shure.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2844
(This shure.custhelp.com/app/answers part of the site seems to have some good stuff)
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INFINITE WAVE - [the sound engineers SRC benchmarking]
who has the best downsampling anti-alias filter, Ableton or audacity? -
http://src.infinitewave.ca/
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VESTMAN MASTERING [invaluable tips on recording and mixing from a super-pro]
http://johnvestman.com/site_map.htm
reference CD's -
http://johnvestman.com/commercial_cds.htm
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DAN RUSSELL Professor Dan Russell has made some animations explaining wave physics, this one about driving room resonances is excellent
http://paws.kettering.edu/~drussell/...s/driving.html
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STEVE CRUTCHFIELD, at John Hopkins University another excellent animation, a Java applet that helps to understand what happens when you convolute a signal 'The Joy of Convolution'
http://www.jhu.edu/signals/convolve/
Demo of how to use this Java applet
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DAVE BENSON Professor Dave Benson has put his mind-bending book 'Music: A Mathematical Offering' online for free download from his homepage at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland)
all you ever wanted to know about tunings, temperaments and the ideas of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -
http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/mth192/pages/html/music.pdf ***
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STEPHEN W. SMITH - As posted by my friend from Oslo down the page, another free, quality source online.
in depth DSP, DFT to FFT -
http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
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