
The Audio Circuits Cookbook
Building Blocks and Tools to Design Professional Audio Devices
Ethan Winer(Author)
Focal Press
1st Edition
Published on 9. June 2025
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-1-032-84283-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules-"building blocks" -that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps, and an analog synthesizer.
Offering a range of tutorial advice that covers capacitor selection, multi-layer PC board design, and more, each circuit in this book is also provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects. It includes detailed explanations of every type of active filter commonly used for audio, along with a spreadsheet that calculates their component values, as well as Ohm's Law and Decibels spreadsheets.
Providing practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits using minimal math and theory, this is an ideal manual for intermediate audio professionals, hobbyists, and students coming to audio electronics from non-engineering backgrounds. Professional engineers will find much of value as well in the complete and tested circuits.
Offering a range of tutorial advice that covers capacitor selection, multi-layer PC board design, and more, each circuit in this book is also provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects. It includes detailed explanations of every type of active filter commonly used for audio, along with a spreadsheet that calculates their component values, as well as Ohm's Law and Decibels spreadsheets.
Providing practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits using minimal math and theory, this is an ideal manual for intermediate audio professionals, hobbyists, and students coming to audio electronics from non-engineering backgrounds. Professional engineers will find much of value as well in the complete and tested circuits.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate Advanced
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
110 s/w Zeichnungen, 28 farbige Zeichnungen, 1 Farbfoto bzw. farbiges Rasterbild, 126 s/w Abbildungen, 29 farbige Abbildungen, 16 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 19 s/w Tabellen
19 Tables, black and white; 28 Line drawings, color; 110 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, color; 16 Halftones, black and white; 29 Illustrations, color; 126 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-84283-7 (9781032842837)
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Ethan Winer
The Audio Circuits Cookbook
Building Blocks and Tools to Design Professional Audio Devices
E-Book
06/2025
Focal Press
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Ethan Winer
The Audio Circuits Cookbook
Building Blocks and Tools to Design Professional Audio Devices
E-Book
06/2025
Focal Press
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The Audio Circuits Cookbook
Building Blocks and Tools to Design Professional Audio Devices
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06/2025
1st Edition
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Person
Ethan Winer has been a professional musician, composer, circuit designer, recording engineer, college instructor, computer programmer, technical writer, and audio consultant since the late 1960s. He has written hundreds of feature articles for audio, music, and computer print magazines. Ethan's book The Audio Expert published by Focal Press is now in its third edition.
Content
Section 1: Components and Selection 1. Passive Components 2. Semiconductor Basics 3. Fun With Op-Amps Section 2: Circuit Elements 4. Practical Circuit Elements 5. Active Filters Section 3: Complete Devices 6. Professional Audio Circuits 7. Synthesizer Circuits Section 4: Additional Content 8. LTspice Tutorial 9. Modern PC Board Design Practices 10. Tables 11. Spreadsheets