Book: "Basic Disc Mastering" by Larry Boden [Link]

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Post: # 9982Unread post petermontg
Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:12 pm

public domain, am gathering the book is ok to download

keen to get my hands on it

keep me informed

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Post: # 10016Unread post Z
Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:45 am

Hi,

First post on this great forum to say that I'm really, really interested by this book too.

If the author is ok, and it's seem so, it would be great to get access to this important source of knowledge.

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Z

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Post: # 10191Unread post blacknwhite
Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:37 pm

Good News: Spoke with Mr. Boden tonight: An updated edition of his disc mastering book is in the planning stage. He or I will keep you updated when it becomes available for sale.

Please support Mr. Boden in these efforts, and purchase a copy of the book from him when it becomes available.

- Bob

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Post: # 10196Unread post Z
Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:22 am

blacknwhite wrote:Good News: Spoke with Mr. Boden tonight: An updated edition of his disc mastering book is in the planning stage. He or I will keep you updated when it becomes available for sale.

Please support Mr. Boden in these efforts, and purchase a copy of the book from him when it becomes available.

- Bob
Great news ! :D :D

Z

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Post: # 10197Unread post subkontrabob
Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:59 am

Is it possible to place a preorder?

What about the old PDF, will it be available for download?

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Post: # 10198Unread post motorino
Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:21 am

blacknwhite wrote:Good News: Spoke with Mr. Boden tonight: An updated edition of his disc mastering book is in the planning stage. He or I will keep you updated when it becomes available for sale.

Please support Mr. Boden in these efforts, and purchase a copy of the book from him when it becomes available.

- Bob
One for me!
Marcos

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Post: # 10627Unread post blacknwhite
Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:51 am

(brought back over here from another thread...)
cohearent wrote:No problem! Great idea.
How is Larry? I heard he was having a tough time in the 90s...there was a newspaper article about him that told of medical issues and he was working at a fast food joint. A shame! I knew him in the '80s. Great guy!
Kevin, he's told me he's doing Alright now, much better than in the '90s, now with a comfortable gov't job. (I had seen the same article you mentioned; that's the main reason I decided to try & talk him into re-publishing his book, & offered to do the re-typing / layout.) He's thinking about creating a foreword for this edition of the book, to tell some of his story. Also has some good additional technical info to add.

Thanks for the interest, I'll mention you asked,

- Bob

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Post: # 10831Unread post gottagroovematt
Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:16 am

Interestingly, the Full Sail music school is claiming an ownership interest in the "1st Edition". I have talked to them a couple of times in the past few months about allowing a PDF download version, but have not gotten far.
Matt Earley
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Post: # 10837Unread post Phinster
Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:59 pm

Earlier inquiries of mine to Full Sail yielded deafening silence....

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Post: # 10838Unread post blacknwhite
Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:23 pm

PLEASE DON'T COMMUNICATE WITH FULL SAIL ANY MORE.

I am working with Larry Boden to produce a 2nd edition.

I was mistaken in my initial assertion that Full Sail owns the copyright:

Upon careful re-reading, ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE OF THE FIRST EDITION, IT CLEARLY STATES LARRY BODEN IS THE SOLE COPYRIGHT OWNER, NOT FULL SAIL - you can tell them that if they have said that they think they own it. They don't, Larry Boden does. Full Sail was just the distributor.

Thanks for your efforts to "keep the book available", though!

BTW, the 2nd edition is progressing nicely - LOTs of great NEW info he's shared with me to be added; it's getting to be a Pretty Large Book, and will definitely be worth whatever reasonable price he will end up selling it for! I don't want to say what price I'm pushing for, until the book is "finished" and we discuss it, but I'll be pushing for CHEAP AS POSSIBLE.

- Bob

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Post: # 10850Unread post Phinster
Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:34 am

Forgot to mention, this was about 5 years ago!

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Post: # 11394Unread post torque313
Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:04 am

where do i find this book in either hard copy or pdf?

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Post: # 11422Unread post blacknwhite
Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:40 pm

torque313 wrote:where do i find this book in either hard copy or pdf?
THANKS for your interest.

Not yet published, but definitely in the works; progress being made every week. Larry's got a lot of great info added to 2nd edition.

Will post here when it's done & available for sale - sorry, no realistic time estimate (but a "total guess" might be Jan. 2011?).

Also will try & remember to PM those who've expressed interest, incase you're set up for email notifications...

- Bob

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Post: # 11785Unread post torque313
Mon Dec 13, 2010 7:33 pm

time is of the essence
Is there anywhere i can get ahold of a first edition?

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Post: # 11789Unread post blacknwhite
Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:53 pm

torque313 wrote:time is of the essence
Is there anywhere i can get ahold of a first edition?
If you have any urgent emergency questions needing answering, please post them and folks can help you out!

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Post: # 12150Unread post cohearent
Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:30 pm

Hi Larry,

Blast from the past! Great to see a post from you! I remember when you first published the book. As I recall Dave Hernandez took the pics for your book. Last I heard he was working in San Diego in a video facility. It's possible he still has a set.
I took many similar microscope photos of all the standard groove stuff for an AES presentation on disk cutting about ten years ago. They might be all you need for a new book. If you are interested PM me and I'll send them to you.

All the best,

Kevin Gray
Cohearent Audio
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Post: # 18251Unread post Angus McCarthy
Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:08 pm

(A year is long enough for a bump, eh?)

I'm wondering, those who have found copies of the first edition, how much have they been going for?

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Post: # 18255Unread post Aussie0zborn
Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:43 pm

If I remember correctly, the first edition was downloadable from somewhere, probably here. It may or may not have been the full book. The quality of the photos was not high. I would think its best to wait for the updated edition seeing as much of the information in the original book (or sample that I read) has since been published, debated and discussed in further detail on the Internet and particularly right here in the forum.

Any update on the second edition?

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Post: # 18256Unread post petermontg
Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:01 pm

Yes, It was download here I got a copy off a link here.

To be honest there's not any information in it that your not going to find somewhere on this forum. It was published in '81 so id say wait for the new one with the updates.

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Post: # 18258Unread post petermontg
Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:18 pm

There is info on The Buchman-Meyer Calibration, and formulas for figuring out pitch and proper groove width. Maybe if its ok i can pm them to someone. But am not going to post them here.

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