Music & Recording - related links
links relating to recording, audio & audio equipment
Drum Mic Placement page (how to mike
drums; photos & mic choices)
Music Machines synthesizers,
drum machines, effects
Analogue Heaven
for people interested in analog musical equipment
Electronic Music Foundation
Recording CD-Rs
Recording Your Own
CD-Rs Beginner's Guide to CD Recording by Bruce Bartlett
CD-R
101 How to record CD-Rs. From the Ziff-Davis website
CD-Recordable
Glossary CD-R terms explained. From the Adaptec website
Compact Disc manufacturing standards were established jointly by
Philips and Sony, and were first introduced in October 1982. Currently (August
1998), they are:
- Red
Book - Compact Disc-Digital Audio (CD-DA).
This is the audio CD that you buy in a record store.
- Blue Book - Enhanced CD, or CD+ (CD-plus). This is the format
for hybrid audio CDs with additional CD-ROM
software.
Some sources also cite Blue Book as the standard for Laser Disc.
Here are some FAQs about
Enhanced CDs and some more FAQs
about Enhanced CDs.
The Enhanced CD database offers a
listing of currently available Enhanced CDs.
- Green
Book - CD Interactive, or Interactive CD (CD-i).
A CD format introduced by Philips that allows interactive multimedia applications
to be run on a special CD-i player which is attached to a television set.
- Yellow
Book - Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM).
The standard for the physical format of CDs to be used for information storage.
- Orange
Book - The standard for recordable CDs (CD-R).
- White
Book - The standard for Video CDs.
More information
on CD standards can be found on this page from the Ziff-Davis website.
FAQs about Enhanced CDs
(Blue Book standard)
FAQs about Enhanced
CD and Compatibility Problems (Blue Book standard)
The Red Book (CD-DA) and Yellow Book (CD-ROM) standards are available from:
The Green Book (CD-I) standard is available from:
The Orange Book is proprietary information belonging to Philips and Sony
and is available only to their licensees.
some excellent information can be found on these pages from UCSC's
Electronic Music Studios:
Technical Library our own technical resource
page, still under construction
links relating to music and musical instruments
links to other music links pages
some excellent information can be found on these pages from UCSC's
Electronic Music Studios:
organizations
UCSC
Music Faculty home pages
Arts Division faculty
The URL for many audio companies is simply their company name placed
in between "http://www." and ".com"
For example, the URL for Sony's home page
is http://www.sony.com
miscellaneous links to other related places
The Gavin Report pop chart reporting
folks, has some good links too
Theater Central links to the
world of theater & stage
Phoebe's
Music Studio some good music links can be found here
Netscape
Plug-ins Plug-ins for the Netscape Navigator web browser
miscellaneous links to other unrelated places
Foreign
Language News & Magazines
The World Wide Web
for Dummies
The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S.
Project see linearally-accelerated twinkies!
PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO:
richard.karst@macmail.ucsc.edu
UCSC LINKS:
go to UCSC Electronic
Music Studio Home Page
go to UCSC
Music Department Home Page
go to UCSC Arts Division Home Page
go to UCSC Home Page
return to Recording Services Home Page
send email to Recording Services: rkarst@cats.ucsc.edu
"Under Construction" graphic courtesy of Andy's
Art Attack
