Pump Up the Volume

Book excerpt: Pump Up the Volume by DJ Anthony Betia is a comprehensive audio management textbook covering timely and critical topics related to audio such as music production, music distribution, industry mechanics, proper studio equipment use, equipment configuration, high-fidelity audio, podcasting, broadcasting, livestreaming, mastering or post-processing, and the fundamentals of high quality recording and publishing across a multitude of different platforms internationally. This book is everything that any independent musician, sound engineer, recording studio manager, field journalist, podcaster, voice-over artist, and broadcaster will need to know to get up to speed with audio management. Within this textbook, you can answer questions such as: How do I release my self-made music internationally for the world to hear on platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer or Tidal? What studio gear do I need to be familiar with to run my own broadcasts? How do I get the best sound quality possible? Many of these questions are difficult to answer with the internet alone, which is why this textbook has been created through years of industry expertise, combining critical knowledge into a highly digestible manner.