Sound Engineering, anyone know a thing or two?

[Cus93]

Easy guys, I've always been pretty interested in the technicals of sound engineering but to be honest i don't know a thing, but i would like to. Anyone know any good websites/books that could teach me a thing or two?
Wasn't sure where to put this in the forum so sorry for any inconvenience.

Thanks in advance for any helpful responses.

[groelle]

production forum is the right point i guess.

just learn your way around daws, synths and samples...

[miszt]

My first thought when thinking 'sound engineering', refers to Hardware studios, microphone placement, room acoustics and live instrument recording etc, if thats what you are interested in, your best bet is to get into a studio, maybe as part of a course (cheapest and easiest way for studio time), but if you are only interested in digital audio engineering, then stick around here as groelle suggested and look on YouTube for tutorials

[Cus93]

nahh sorry i was on about your idea of "hardware studios" sorry for the confusion.

[TongueFlap]

sound on sound mag is a good read about all that stuff! They have an online site as well..

[`Matt]

Not sure if this is the kinda stuff you are looking for, http://www.lenardaudio.com/education/01_eduintro.html# its alot to get your head round tho mate. If thats useful to you i can probs give you a couple more good reads.

[Cus93]

that's awesome mate, just what i was looking for, cheers.

[SrsHarry]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound

This is a good place to start haha, nothing like a good understanding of the propagation of sound before diving right in there.

[Scatcat]

Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools by Roey Izhaki - slightly threw me into the deep end but has a shitload of info and is quite easy to read. good examples and comes with a CD of reference tracks.

[Cus93]

nice one guys, the ever helpful forum crew.