PA-related Links

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This page contains some useful and/or interesting PA-related links. They are categorised but, with the exception of the first category, are randomly ordered within each category. If you would like to suggest your own site (or any other site that you have found) to be added here, please contact PAforMusic.

No approval of the security or content of the listed sites is implied. Access to them is at your own risk.

Please note that links to PA (and related) manufacturers' and suppliers' sites have their own pages on PAforMusic − click these links.

Contents

Organisations, associations, standards bodies, etc.
General PA / audio / acoustics
For musicians, vocalists & recording
AV, TV, theatre, film, etc:
Equipment repair, mods, self-build, etc:
Music-related

Organisations, associations, standards bodies, etc.

ABTT − Association of British Theatre Technicians
AES − Audio Engineering Society
AETTI − Arts and Entertainment Technical Training Initiative
ALD − Association of Lighting Designers
ANSI − American National Standards Institute
ATSC − Advanced Television Systems Committee
BADA − British Audio-visual Dealers Association
BECTU − Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union
BEIRG − British Entertainment Industry Radio Group
BFA − British Federation of Audio − now defunct, but see BFA
BSI − British Standards Institution
CCIR − International Radio Consultative Committee − replaced by ITU-R (see About ITU)
CENELEC − European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
DIN − Deutsches Institut für Normung
EBU − European Broadcasting Union
ESTA − Entertainment Services and Technology Association
ETSI − European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute
IBS − Institute of Broadcast Sound
IEC − International Electrotechnical Commission
IEE − Institution of Electrical Engineers − replaced by IET
IEEE − Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IET − Institution of Engineering and Technology
IFPI − International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
IRT − Institut für Rundfunktechnik
ISCE − Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers
ISO − International Organization for Standardization
ITU − International Telecommunication Union
JFMG − Joint Frequency Management Group
NAB − National Association of Broadcasters
NAMM − International Music Products Association
PLASA − Professional Lighting and Sound Association
PPL − Public Performance Licences for recordings and ISRC registration (UK)
RIAA − Recording Industry Association of America
SMPTE − Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
USITT − United States Institute of Theatre Technology

General PA / audio / acoustics

Uneeda Audio
Rane Pro Audio Reference
Blue Room technical forum
ProSoundWeb forum
Scott's tutorial
All Mixed Up (Bob Mills)
Sound Institute
PAforMusic
ROADIE.NET
Post Audio − recording, educational
AuSIM glossary
Lynn & Steve's site
SALT − Sound And Light Training manual
Sound Advice − noise pollution & health &safety advice (UK)
smack my pitch up
World Wide Pro Audio Directory
Sweetwater Expert Center
Church sound systems and acoustics forum (JDB Sound)
Testing 1212
CMN − Church Media Community forums
Church SoundCheck articles
My Church Gig (blog)
ChurchTechArts (blog)
Digital Content Producer mag
College of Santa Fe Auditory Theory
Mick's Audioworld
Microphone data (Rycote)
Shure Notes Archive
Amplifier Institute
Lansing Heritage forums
The History of Public Address
Gearslutz forums
diyAudio forums
Audio Asylum forums (incorporating Video Asylum)
The Hardware Book − HwB (connector pinouts and cable descriptions)
STOIC Technical Bible
Live-Audio.com (forum etc.)
Sengpielaudio (German) − calculators, links, forums, etc.
eMasters glossary
Doctor ProAudio (Spanish) − Categorised links to professional audio sites
Sound engineering articles − Electric Blues Club
live:systems − PA basics
Speech intelligibility calculator − M^c Squared
BB List − Bazza's Bazaar (private sales of used equipment: audio, video, film, etc.)
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology

For musicians, vocalists & recording

Electrical Safety for Entertainers − HSE INDG 247 (for UK)
Guitar Amp Modeling
Vocalist
RecordingEq glossary
Instrument samples
Songstuff music resources (glossary etc.)
Commercial music CDs as audio references
Shavano Music Online − musicians' info site (incl. tech stuff)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
Audacity (SourceForge)

AV, TV, theatre, film, etc:

Plasma & LCD TV information
SHOWORKS glossary
Aventis AV glossary
Image-In glossary
Evertz film & broadcast glossary
Video standards
Production sound articles − Equipment Emporium
TheatreCrafts glossary
Stage lighting & audio data − Tom Baldwin
Backstage World

Equipment repair, mods, self-build, etc:

Health & Safety document eis36 − repair of domestic audio, TV, etc. (pdf file)
Health & Safety document indg354 − testing of electrical equipment (pdf file)
Electricity at Work Regulations
Repair FAQ
Repair FAQ − repair info
Sam's bookmarks
samswebsite.com − Sams Technical Publishing
Diverse Devices − repair tips etc.
sci.electronics.repair − Usenet group via Google
Findchips − chip finder
AllDataSheet − component data sheets
Datasheets.org.uk − component data sheets & application notes
DatasheetArchive − search engine for component data sheets & application notes

eSi − eServiceInfo − Service manuals etc.
ElectronicsRepair.net − repair manuals etc
Elektro Tanya − service manuals & schematics
Electronica PT − electronics circuits & schematics
SchematicsForFree
Schematics Unlimited
JustRadios − old TV schematics
ManualUniverse.com
AllShemes.com − TV repair manuals
JustManuals.com
Schematics.ca − free audio equipment schematics

DrTube − guitar amps
Amp Garage
Music Electronics Forum
Guitar effects info − schematics
London Sound (repair & spares shop)
Seme Ltd − domestic appliance spares
Seme-NEDIS − domestic appliance spares
e-repair Service Engineers Forum
Euras.com − info for consumer electronics service engineers
Audio capacitor characteristics (Elliot Sound Products)

Notes:

No approval of the security or content of the listed sites is implied. Access to them is at your own risk.
Please contact PAforMusic if any of these links are broken, or if you would like to suggest other sites to be added.

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