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by Clive Young With a title like The Sound Book (W.W. Norton & Co.), you might expect Trevor Cox's new tome to be a dry textbook full of mind-numbing scientific exploration into infintesimal intricacies of sound. Luckily, while Cox throws considerable physics and neuroscience at the reader every few pages, most of the exploration here is the old-fashioned kind, as we follow him around the globe in search of the world's strangest sounds.
"The biggest thing is you have to be a fan of what you're mixing. I don't think you give an audience what they want or do a band justice otherwise, because you're not paying attention to the nuances, the little things that people expect to hear. If you don't give that to them, then you're letting the audience down. I truly believe that I'm the advocate for the audience—FOH guys are there to ask them to buy a ticket next year." — Brian Simon, FOH engineer, Foreigner.