Useful content for music producers, audio and acoustic engineers, and DJs.

[johny178]

Hello to Reaper music producers, audio and acoustic engineers, DJs, and musicians. Today I would like to tell you about a wonderful project, in which I was honored to take part. Sorry for self-promotion but I guess it can be useful. It is a book, written by a team of professional music producers, sound engineers, and music teachers around the world, which contains all music production words, acoustics terms, all EDM genres, audio engineering terminology, recording vocabulary, DJ slang, and electronic music theory definitions. Ebook and print version are available. This is the second version of the book, which we launched just now. We added even more words (rare and unique) that we could only find, and now it contains 201 pages. The book is suitable both for beginners in the world of music creation and for more experienced producers and engineers. Here is a link to it, if anyone is interested. Thank you for attention.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Musician...=good+musician

[Reason]

Serious questions:
- how is this useful?
- does it provide context for how the terms would be used? For example, explaining that the A in ADSR stands for "attack" is not as helpful as explaining that lower/quicker values might be good for lead tones, whereas higher/slower values might be good for pads.

If I'm new I'm going to google things I don't understand. Heck, if I'm experienced I would still google anything I might not understand.

I'm not taking the piss, I'm just genuinely curious why someone would spend $20 on this.

[johny178]

Originally Posted by Reason

Serious questions:
- how is this useful?
- does it provide context for how the terms would be used? For example, explaining that the A in ADSR stands for "attack" is not as helpful as explaining that lower/quicker values might be good for lead tones, whereas higher/slower values might be good for pads.

If I'm new I'm going to google things I don't understand. Heck, if I'm experienced I would still google anything I might not understand.

I'm not taking the piss, I'm just genuinely curious why someone would spend $20 on this.

Hi! $20 is for print version. You buy a book, it is the price for print book. 3.99 the cost of ebook.
I guess it helpful first of all in that its the biggest production and enginnering glossary. If you new and go to google - how can you be shure, that term you seach for will be relative to music production, and not to other aspects of music, etc.
If you a pro, maybe you just want to put this music production dictionary on your bookshelf. Is it so bad for pros to buy such books?

[mccrabney]

Originally Posted by johny178

Is it so bad for pros to buy such books?

yooo if i went to the dentist and saw "a glossary of dental terms" on the shelf before getting a root canal, i'd probably run for my life. just a joke and i hope your book does well for those who need it.

[johny178]

Originally Posted by mccrabney

yooo if i went to the dentist and saw "a glossary of dental terms" on the shelf before getting a root canal, i'd probably run for my life. just a joke and i hope your book does well for those who need it.

)))
Thanks)

[xpander]

I'm interested in how would you compare this to eg. AES Pro Audio Reference (formerly Rane Pro Audio Reference)?
http://www.aes.org/par/

In print that was over 400 page pro audio reference. From the descriptions it sounds like Good Musician might be something similar but more current and EDM related?

[johny178]

Originally Posted by xpander

I'm interested in how would you compare this to eg. AES Pro Audio Reference (formerly Rane Pro Audio Reference)?
http://www.aes.org/par/

In print that was over 400 page pro audio reference. From the descriptions it sounds like Good Musician might be something similar but more current and EDM related?

"A2IM (American Association of Independent Music) "... serves the Independent music community as a unified voice representing a broad coalition of music labels ... ."

AAAF (American Academy of Audiology Foundation) Their mission: "To promote philanthropy in support of research, education, and public awareness in audiology and hearing science." [From website.]

Academy of Ancient Music See: AAM.

cans See headphones.

cantor See: kantor.

CCIR ARM See weighting filters.

CCIR-468 See weighting filters.

CCIR 2 kHz See weighting filters."

And so on...
It has more than 50% useless words, that doesn't mean anything. Yes, no doubt in audio engineering this is a cool glossary, but more than a half of it - useless. You can open a preview of our book, and see the table of content (but only 70% of it, the rest did not fit in the preview) and compare our words with that glossary.
When I said that we have one of the biggest (and maybe the biggest) production glossary, in terms of the number of words, I meant exactly WORDS, not unnecessary abbreviations and repetitions. + Our book specialized more on producers, and this glossary for AE.

[zeekat]

Is there a possibility to set the preview to show some other part of the book than just the table of contents? It tells nothing about how the book is written at all.

To be honest, the "I have been producing electronic music for more than five years" and pointing to some sekrit kabal of producers hidden under a gmail account doesn't suggest particularly enticing professional cred. Altough of course some newcomers are obviously enormously talented and skilled.

[BigFella]

Originally Posted by johny178

..which contains all music production words, acoustics terms, all EDM genres, audio engineering terminology, recording vocabulary, DJ slang, and electronic music theory definitions

There is a bit of a cart vs horse primacy issue here in that - if I don't know the subject then the definitions will be meaningless without understanding of the topic, but if I know the topic then I will be familiar with the language.

No?

[karbomusic]

Thinking of beginners, its still nice to have a glossary of terms handy to aid in getting over that hump - especially from one resource and organized. I'm all for Googling stuff but that can be as much harm as help, once you start dealing with multiple resources and opinions, myths and what not... Not to mention not knowing what to type in, meaning one can browse a glossary and learn terms they didn't know existed.

[johny178]

Originally Posted by karbomusic

Thinking of beginners, its still nice to have a glossary of terms handy to aid in getting over that hump - especially from one resource and organized. I'm all for Googling stuff but that can be as much harm as help, once you start dealing with multiple resources and opinions, myths and what not... Not to mention not knowing what to type in, meaning one can browse a glossary and learn terms they didn't know existed.

Thank you for feedback.

[johny178]

Originally Posted by BigFella

There is a bit of a cart vs horse primacy issue here in that - if I don't know the subject then the definitions will be meaningless without understanding of the topic, but if I know the topic then I will be familiar with the language.

No?

Hi! Why it is useful for beginners already written karbomusic, and I completely agree with him. About the pros. Just for example: I have a friend, a professional musician, graduated Yale School of Music. He perfectly knows all these terms from classical music and musical theory, but he always buys a lot of dictionaries, books, etc. in the hope that he will find in them at least 5-10% of what he did not know before and become better, as a musician.
I will not say that this book is better than others, better than free sites, etc. And I will not try to persuade you to buy it.
I'm just saying that there is such book, on which we worked, and I can say with confidence that this is one of the biggest(and maybe the biggest) production glossary, in terms of the number of words. Of course, each of these definitions is written in a short form (just to understand what it is), and if you go to Google, you can learn more about each of them. But from the dictionary (which is this book is) is not required to write each word as from Wikipedia. This is a DICTIONARY. So, I guess it's all I can say)