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Product Description
This book offers a practical overview of the theory, operations, and techniques related to audio production. The discussions are straight-forward and nontechnical and are supported by illustrations and photos.
About the Author
Stanley Alten teaches audio production, applied to TV-Film aesthetics, writing, and criticism. Before joining the TRF faculty, he worked in radio and television as producer, writer, sound designer, performer, and station manager in a number of markets, including Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. He also has many film and record production credits and continues to be professionally active through his own production company.
Alten is an internationally recognized authority in sound production. He is author of AUDIO IN MEDIA, the leading audio production text in North America for more than two decades. It has been translated into Spanish, Korean, German, and Chinese. He has also written AUDIO AND MEDIA: THE RECORDING STUDIO, which focuses on music recording, and A HOLOCAUST ODYSSEY, a biography. He is the author of many articles for the FOCAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA: TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES, for which he serves as Audio/Radio Editor, the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RADIO, AND WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA, for which he served as Audio Editor. He is a contributor to the INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EDUCATION, 2nd edition.
He has been honored for teaching excellence by the Outstanding Educators of America, Alpha Epsilon Rho, and the National Science Foundation.