[.ca] The Microphone Book: From mono to stereo to surround - a ... (ISBN 0240519612)

Quality learning Material:
This book goes indepth with the mathamatics and schematis of microphones. Highly recommended for everyone who wants to know more. I found the book to be a little dry and a little over my head in terms of some of the math, but I gained usefull knowledge on mechanics and abstract principals. Read it.

Not a good design book:
I found the book covered information on the types of microphones, the performace specifications and use of microphones in general. Half of the book was on instillation and studio placement. I was looking for a design book to help me solve signal to noise problems,distortion and gain. I was hoping to find examples of low noise amplifier designs, filters and bias information for the different types of microphones. I expected the book to be written at an electrical engineering level. It was not. Instead, when it covered this information it would refer to how "the engineer would have designed the microphone to perfomer like this..." I found the book very disappointing.