PC Audio Editing

PC Audio Editing is an essential guide for anyone wishing to make audio production for issue as recordings, or for broadcast, using a Windows PC and material acquired both in the studio and via portable equipment.


Even those who are experienced with editing and mixing using quarter inch tape can find the change to editing audio visually on a PC daunting. The author explains all the basic principles of this new technology and the skills you need to use it successfully, without assuming prior knowledge of the system, in a practical and straightforward manner.

The accompanying free CD-ROM is supplied by Syntrillium Software Corporation. It contains a demo and tutorials of Cool Edit Pro, the leading PC audio editing program.

Audience: Newcomers to desktop audio production, and established production staff in the fields of TV, video and multimedia. Also sales staff in radio and other broadcast industries, who are being increasingly encouraged to involve music into electronic promotional material, like the web and live presentations. Professional users of audio who cannot justify or afford full-scale digital audio workstations e.g. TV studio managers and producers. Students on arts based, media studies courses, and radio production skills courses, musicians and home users. Computer and audio enthusiasts.

An audio and broadcast consultant he is regularly involved in audio production. He teaches courses on radio production, music technology and sound recording at the City of Bristol College and has lectured in Rotterdam, trained University of Wales Broadcast Journalism students and BBC producers and current affairs journalists in London and Bristol. He worked at the BBC for 25 years as a technician, producer, reporter, manager and trainer.