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Learn how to take a small room, examine everything in the room that matters, and create an excellent-sounding recording space with this S.M.A.R.T. guide. You'll also learn: how to use your acoustically enhanced space to record guitars, bass, piano, vocals, drums, and other instruments * microphone techniques for every instrument * how to work with signal processors and effects * many creative tricks used in world-class studios. The accompanying DVD includes more than 200 video and audio demonstrations that enhance and clarify the concepts in the book.
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Great package.......2007-01-11
If a picture tells a thousand words, a recording clip tells even more when you are dealing with sound.If you want to hear what changing Eq settings, filters, compression, mics and room setups does, get this book; the accompanying CD is mind opening. The descriptions and narratives in the book are excellent. I've read a lot of recording books through the years. This one is a must.
Everything Needed for the Home Recordist.......2006-07-19
If you've taken (or are thinking of taking) the plunge into home recording, this should be the first book you look at. I own a lot of books on recording and therefore have a lot of advanced information beyond the scope of home recording. I've had to filter out what was pertinent for my own needs. I can truly tell you this book will spare you that path. And of course, you can always get the advanced stuff later, but this book will get you up and running very quickly. It has very good explanations, diagrams and examples of pretty much all the audio techniques you'll need to get good recordings at home. Highly recommended.
Top of the line.......2006-05-07
You can tell that this book series is presented by someone who has many years of experience. Anyone could learn from this Smart Guide series very well done.
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INCREDIBLE/HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.......2005-12-02
Let me start out by saying this book and the entire series deserves 6 stars, but the Amazon rating box only went up to 5. Whether you've been doing sound,music,engineering for a week or 20 years these books have something for everyone.The full color artwork is the best i've ever seen in any instructional book period.The companion dvd is fantastic, worth the price alone.Bill gibson does a great job with the subject matter and text,he covers the material thoroughly while making it easily understood. Highly recommend.
a must have for anyone learning the ropes of studio recording.......2005-08-30
This book has it all. If your into recording music or want to set up or build your own home studio. This book has tons of information. From controlling acoustics to many options in recording instruments and vocals- I will be using and learning from this book for years and years to come.
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Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk, Allegra Goodman and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Jewish culture that trace the history of the region, the rise of hotels and bungalow colonies, the wonderful flavors of food and entertainment, and distinctive forms of Jewish religion found in the Mountains.
What was life--the work, the play, the food, the romance--like at Catskills Mountains resorts? These very personal recollections capture the special sense of community and real sense of freedom that developed. Far from the welter of the city, Jewish families learned to vacation and enjoy themselves, to savor the social mobility and cultural space the resorts afforded, and to nourish their culinary and comic traditions. From "Bingo by the Bungalow" by Thane Rosenbaum to "Young Workers in the Hotels" by Phil Brown to "Shoot the Shtrudel to Me Yudel" by Henry Foner, this charming anthology captures an era that has had enormous impact on the Jewish experience and American culture as a whole.
"Whenever I speak about the Catskills," observes editor Phil Brown, "I am struck by the strength of people's desire to relive their experiences in the Mountains." If you've visited the Catskills yourself, or heard stories from your parents or grandparents, or are just interested in this extraordinary time and place, pack your bags and prepare to enjoy your stay In the Catskills.
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Looking for the Catskills.......2002-12-05
If someone would only perfect a time machine, I'd rush back to the Catskills for a birds-eye view of places I've only read about or seen in movies. Alas, I must steep myself in books to flesh out a daydream of a past I never had. "In the Catskills" succeeds beautifully with its essays concerning every aspect of a unique Jewish American experience. My one disappointment - and it's a big one - is the photographs. I was hoping for a pictoral smorgasborg, filled with color photos of brochures and other memorabilia and many, many more photos of the hotels, performers, workers and guests. There are some jewels here, but some additional and higher-quality glossy photos would've worked wonders. All in all, though, a swell book!
Shwenga. enjoy the Catskills from your air conditioned couch.......2002-07-12
How exciting... a book by the guy who runs those Catskills Institute workshops each August! I attended one a few years back, and I still have the audio tapes frlom some of the lectures. Collected here are 34 essays, excerpts from memoirs, songs, and stories of life in the Catskills in the Twentieth Century. The book includes the words and music to Shoot the Shtrudel to Me Yudel (1941) which was dedicated to Yudel Slutzky; an excerpt from Joey Adam's 1966 autobiography on the Borsht Belt; a reprint of "Jewish Farmers of the Catskills"; and even a piece from Cahan's "The Rise of David Levinsky." The book has seven main sections: history; boarding house, bungalow, and kuchalayn life; hotel life; entertainment; romance; religion; and food. Additional standouts include an excerpt from Kaaterskill Falls (by Allegra Goodman); I. B. Singer's "The Yearning Heifer"; Thane Rosenbaum's "Bingo in the Bungalow"; Herman Wouk's "Marjorie at South Wind"; and Tania Grossinger's "Growing Up at Grossinger's." The book is also filled with photos of Catskill's life, signage, a rate sheet, and even old hotel menus.
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Shimmeree, a lovely crystal horse, and her friends learn that they don't have to be afraid of things just because they are different.
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First book I ever read when I was a kid..........2007-08-03
Years later seeing the cover to this book gave me goosebumps. I still remember this being the first book I ever read as a kid. The illustration from the Serendipity books are gorgeous, and the plot is so creative (which I won't give away, but it has a beautiful message). This is, what I think is missing from children today, this book is pure imagination!
Not the Best of Serendipity.......2007-07-12
Well, first off, Shimmeree is actually a winged mare, not a dragon. She lives inside a water droplet and her world is only ever silver, blue, and gold. That is until a speck of dust, brown, brings in a seed that blooms with other colours. An interesting work, but somewhat lacking in the beauty and psuedo-reality of the other books. A personal preference of mine, maybe, also the vivid colourings can be very distracting to young ones, especially at bedtime. To be fair I really do love almost all the other serendipity books.
Beautiful books, beloved by all!.......2000-04-06
Shimmeree, a crystal dragon living in a crystal world, is out frollicking when the young dragon finds a strange seed. What follows is a tale of beauty, and the newfound understanding of the color of a rose -- and how that color can spread across an entire world bringing light and life.
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Ben Shneiderman's book dramatically raises computer users' expectations of what they should get from technology. He opens their eyes to new possibilities and invites them to think freshly about future technology. He challenges developers to build products that better support human needs and that are usable at any bandwidth. Shneiderman proposes Leonardo da Vinci as an inspirational muse for the "new computing." He wonders how Leonardo would use a laptop and what applications he would create.
Shneiderman shifts the focus from what computers can do to what users can do. A key transformation is to what he calls "universal usability," enabling participation by young and old, novice and expert, able and disabled. This transformation would empower those yearning for literacy or coping with their limitations. Shneiderman proposes new computing applications in education, medicine, business, and government. He envisions a World Wide Med that delivers secure patient histories in local languages at any emergency room and thriving million-person communities for e-commerce and e-government. Raising larger questions about human relationships and society, he explores the computer's potential to support creativity, consensus-seeking, and conflict resolution. Each chapter ends with a Skeptic's Corner that challenges assumptions about trust, privacy, and digital divides.
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Bleh.......2006-09-26
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I really dislike this book. At first, I was looking forward to reading it. I am very interested in technology's future, human computer interface design, and enabling better software through simplicity. The combination of technology and artistry suggested by the title led me to believe that it would be an insightful volume pointing the way to a better computing. Instead, this diatribe leads me only left with a feeling that the author is so full of himself as to be blind to the world around him.
This book does address real issues. As computing moves from the back server closet into the home, real changes have to be made. Software today is complicated, and is frequently frustrating to use and learn.
However, this author acts as if the computing world is ignorant of the cost of complexity. His book falls short of actual ways to achieve these goals, has no recognition of the technological, economical, or social challenges involved, and totally fails to recognize the work of the past pioneers in achieving these goals. He views computing solely from a consumer point of view, ignoring the vast gains in efficiency and choice made possible through the vast computing infrastructure supporting modern day life.
As Schneiderman puts it, "old" computing is concerned with technology. These researchers and practitioners are concerned with increasing speed, decreasing cost, and improving reliability. In contrast, he views "new" computing as a focus on improving people's experience with technology.
This is a perfect example of the author's lack of technical competence. The only way that reliability is increased, user interfaces improved, and the experience of using a computer made more artistic and enjoyable is through improved computer speed and reliability. As an example, the aesthetically pleasing effect (in the new iTunes version) of flipping through album covers relies upon powerful computing technology. Schneiderman's dichotomy between "old" and "new," and downright distain for people interested in the former, is counter-productive. In every field, there are different groups working on different problems. While it is reasonable to argue for one's particular area of interest, it is incredibly narrow-minded to argue that it is the only field of interest.
Lastly, I found the author's presentation of historical Leonardo anecdotes incidental to his arguments. Rather than being the basis for the book, Schneiderman descends into the meaninglessness of arguing that Leonardo would "put man at the center" of the design process, or would like portable devices of different size screens.
Decent class of cover....that's it.......2005-08-21
Approximately 250 pages of hybridised vacuity build from snippets of information coralled together. I can best describe this work as almost entirely cliche ridden. It is further evidence that human computer interaction studies are largely 'solutions' in search of problems. The chapter on 'mega-creativity' is replete with casual opinion and banal anecdotes. Likewise chapters on the 'new education' and 'new medicine' are pitched several degrees below what the average Time or News Week reader would expect in content. Overall this is a poor piece of work in terms of content and I regret having wasted money on it. At some point in time, I hope that a Shokal equivalent emerges to debunk the self-aggrandising twaddle that typifies most HCI work.
repetitive, but somehow doesn't say anything.......2005-06-22
Schneiderman's "Leonardo's Laptop" is singularly disappointing. Promising to raise our expectation of what we should get from technology, he instead uses a forced extended metaphor in the form of Leonardo da Vinci. What would Leonardo do?, we are repeatedly asked. Schneiderman attempts to answer the question. Sadly, his answers are neither new nor groundbreaking. I cannot believe that Leonardo would simply recount solutions that are already available and attempt to make such solutions sound visionary and forward-thinking.
The chapters in the book discuss the issues with usability today, activites and relationships, and attempt to discuss future directions in several fields: government, healthcare, business, and education. In these chapters, Schneiderman uses feel-good buzzwords like 'empowering' and 'enabling', but never moves beyond the feel-good buzzwords to suggest real solutions. In most cases, he suggests solutions that are already implemented; in others, he simply waves his hands at the problem and says that there has to be a solution.
Each chapter concludes with a skeptic's corner. This section could easily be re-labelled the strawman's corner. In that section, he constructs arguments that skeptics might use, but he must assume that skeptics are uniformly moronic. The so-called skeptical arguments are drawn with exceptionally rough strokes, which he dispenses of with little regard to very real concerns that can and should be discussed.
I had high hopes for this book. I wanted something that pushed the boundaries. I wanted something visionary. Instead, I got a repetitive book that somehow didn't say anything. I can only hope that future works give us something better than this.
The Virtual Renaissance Man .......2005-02-01
This book is an excellent resource for practitioners to remind of what is important in today's product computer world - customer satisfaction. The book reminds us through the use of Leonardo DaVinci's laptop applications that we need to ensure mankind is the master of computer systems and computers serve our customer needs for new applications and do not become an end in themselves. He is not convinced machine will think for themselves or have personalities as hollywood has suggested in several movies. He shows a healthy skepticism about where we are headed and defines some of the existing top notch research projects. His position at University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction lab gives him a unique look into government use of computing which he discusses in the book. A most useful book to career government computer people.
Demand More From the Computer Industry.......2004-07-16
The following review was published in the October 2003 issue of the Usability Interface, the quarterly newsletter for the Usability SIG of the STC (Society for Technical Communication).
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Background
Anyone who knows Ben Shneiderman and the activities of the Human-Computer Interface Lab (HCIL) would expect a book like Leonardo’s Laptop. Twenty years ago as founding director of HCIL, he was in the avant-garde of bringing together experts in computer science, engineering, psychology, and education to develop computers and their interfaces to better serve human needs. Back then computer interfaces had barely advanced from a row of blinking lights to a flickering green monitor.
Why did Shneiderman write Leonardo?
Having long been at the forefront of interface design among design, he sensed a need for something new to advance things to the next level. It’s the involvement of the masses that can push the development and implementation of what is possible with computing and interfaces.
He writes, “Old computing is about what computers can do. New computing is about what people can do.” And one thing people can do is to demand better computer interfaces or “Universal Usability.” In Leonardo, Shneiderman empowers users to demand more by giving real, concrete examples of how computers can better support human activities.
Shneiderman’s approach
For designers he develops a framework for designers to construct technology to support users and their needs — the Activities and Relationships Table (ART). ART is Shneiderman’s approach to relating human activities and relationships. The columns are four activities: collect (information), relate (communicate), create (innovate), and donate (disseminate). The four rows are relationships, each one describing an increasingly large group: self, family and friends, colleagues and neighbors, citizens and markets. Using this framework, human needs are identified first and then technology is developed to meet these needs.
Separate chapters on e-business, e-learning, e-commerce, and e-government use this framework to identify needs specific to these areas and then consider how technology can better support the individual and society. The focus is on how technology supports human relationships, how technology enables individuals and groups to be more productive and more creative, and how technology helps diverse groups collaborate within communities or across continents.
Each chapter concludes with a thoughtful section labeled, “The Skeptics Corner.” There he completes the discussion of each chapter by voicing the concerns of those who would question his ideas or who see problems with his approach. Shneiderman readily admits that real world solutions are not without potential problems or risk. Here he strengthens his theses by contrasting them with the alternatives.
Of particular interest to the Usability Community are chapter subsections on defining universal usability, accommodating diverse users, bridging the gap between what users know and what they need to know, and methods for achieving user-centered design. This book provides a service to the Usability Community by raising public awareness of and knowledge about Usability.
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