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71 books written from the Reboot courses, each one as a PDF, an EPUB and an audiobook. Grouped the same way the courses are, Fundamentals first.

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Fundamentals

AV Fundamentals 101

The complete beginner's guide to live-event audiovisual work

What it covers

Walk onto a live-event crew and be useful on day one. AV Fundamentals 101 teaches the language, the gear, and the signal flow behind every concert, keynote, and broadcast, then shows you how to prep, test, and troubleshoot like a working technician. Written for people entering the audiovisual industry with no background and no connections.

160 pages · audiobook 3 h 07 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Set & Stage Etiquette

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

116 pages · audiobook 1 h 49 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

The Physics of Sound

Why sound behaves the way it does, and what that means on a show floor

What it covers

Every skill in live audio rests on a handful of physical facts, and most technicians are never taught them. This book covers what sound actually is, how frequency sets the physical size of a wave, why the decibel is logarithmic and what each kind of decibel is measured against, how sound behaves as it crosses a room and meets a surface, and why two copies of one sound can cancel each other. Written for AV technicians who want to know why, not only which knob.

143 pages · audiobook 2 h 17 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Audio Basics

The gear, the signal, and how to get sound from a source to a room

What it covers

Most audio problems on a live job are not mysterious, and almost none are solved by turning something up. This book covers the equipment: the three signal levels and why they must not be confused, gain and headroom, how a microphone actually works and which of the three types to reach for, polar patterns and placement, what a mixing console is doing behind its channel strip, buses and monitor sends, how a loudspeaker turns a signal back into air, powered versus passive, and feedback as a loop you can break in four places. Written for AV technicians who want to understand the chain rather than memorise a fix.

99 pages · audiobook 1 h 43 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Video Basics

How a picture gets from a source to a screen, and what breaks on the way

What it covers

Most video problems on a live job are not mysterious, and almost none of them are solved by guessing. This book covers what a picture actually is — pixels, resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate and colour — how it travels as a signal, which connector carries what, what a switcher and a scaler actually do, how projectors, panels and LED walls differ, and how to trace a video chain when nothing appears on the screen. Written for AV technicians who want to understand the chain rather than memorise a fix.

107 pages · audiobook 1 h 57 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Camera Basics

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

183 pages · audiobook 2 h 54 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Lighting Basics

What light does, how fixtures make it, and how a console tells them to

What it covers

Lighting is the department where the technical and the artistic meet, and almost nobody explains both halves at once. This book covers the four properties of light you actually control, the three families of fixture and what each is for, what DMX is and why addressing goes wrong, what a console is really doing when you record a cue, how to trace a lighting signal when a fixture will not respond, and the handful of angles that separate a lit stage from a flat one. Written for AV technicians who want to understand lighting rather than memorise a patch.

102 pages · audiobook 1 h 45 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Rigging Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

168 pages · audiobook 2 h 54 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Live Audio

A2 & Stage Audio Fundamentals

The stage-side audio job, from the truck arriving to the last case going back

What it covers

The A2 is the first real audio job on most crews, and it is a job about responsibility rather than knobs. This book covers what an A2 actually owns, how to read a stage plot and input list, choosing microphones and DIs by source, cabling and labelling a stage so anybody can follow it, wedges and in-ears, wireless and RF awareness, running a line check that finds faults before the band does, comms discipline, what the job becomes during the show, fast fault-finding under pressure, and festival changeovers. Written for the technician who wants to be the one the A1 asks for by name.

121 pages · audiobook 2 h 11 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Acoustics Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

108 pages · audiobook 1 h 40 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Audio Intermediate

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

141 pages · audiobook 2 h 33 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Live Sound Production

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

123 pages · audiobook 1 h 51 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Front-of-House Mixing

Building, tuning, and performing a live mix that works in the room

What it covers

The front-of-house engineer decides what an audience actually hears. This book covers the whole job: gain structure and starting points, the frequency ranges every instrument lives in, compression that helps rather than flattens, tuning a system to a real room, aligning delays, killing feedback, and holding a mix together while a show changes under you.

85 pages · audiobook 1 h 25 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Monitor Engineering

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

107 pages · audiobook 1 h 46 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Stage Audio & IEM Systems

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

85 pages · audiobook 1 h 22 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Wireless & RF Systems

Coordinating, deploying, and rescuing wireless audio on live shows

What it covers

Wireless is where live shows most often fail in public. This book covers how radio microphones and in-ear monitors actually work, which parts of the spectrum you may use, how to coordinate frequencies so they do not generate interference with each other, how to deploy antennas so range is not a gamble, and how to diagnose a dropout while a show is running.

82 pages · audiobook 1 h 18 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Backline Technical

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

79 pages · audiobook 1 h 11 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Audio Aesthetics and Critical Listening

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

87 pages · audiobook 1 h 21 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Video & Camera

Video Switching Fundamentals

Many pictures in, one picture out, and everything that decides whether the change is clean

What it covers

The switcher is where a live video show is actually made. This book covers what a switcher does in the signal chain, why every source must agree on format AND on timing, genlock and frame synchronisers, program and preview and the mix/effects banks above them, the take and how to place it, the three core transitions and what each one says, keying from the lower third to the chroma key, the downstream keyer, tally, embedded audio and lip sync, clean feeds for streaming, working to a director and a run of show, and how to stay calm on a desk that has no undo. Written for the technician who wants to cut a show nobody notices being cut.

107 pages · audiobook 1 h 58 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Camera Theory

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

123 pages · audiobook 1 h 24 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Camera Intermediate

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

121 pages · audiobook 1 h 30 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Video Intermediate

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

82 pages · audiobook 1 h 08 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Display & Confidence Monitoring

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

60 pages · audiobook 39 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $3.99

Projection & Display Systems

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

59 pages · audiobook 40 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $3.99

Camera Directing

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

53 pages · audiobook 35 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $3.99

Video Engineering

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

49 pages · audiobook 35 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $3.99

LED, Media Servers & Creative Tech

LED Video Basics

Specifying, building, feeding, and running LED walls that hold up on camera

What it covers

LED walls have replaced projection on most stages, and the decisions that make them work are made before anything is hung. This book covers pixel pitch and viewing distance, brightness and refresh rate, how panels are built and fed with power and data, what processing actually does, and how to set a wall up so it looks right both in the room and through a camera.

96 pages · audiobook 1 h 34 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Media Servers 101

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

94 pages · audiobook 1 h 29 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Lighting

Lighting Operation

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

109 pages · audiobook 1 h 38 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Lighting Intermediate

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

173 pages · audiobook 2 h 42 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Lighting Design

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

110 pages · audiobook 1 h 43 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

The Art of Light: Lighting Aesthetics

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

183 pages · audiobook 2 h 55 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Lighting Automation

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

106 pages · audiobook 1 h 36 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Studio & Broadcast Lighting

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

177 pages · audiobook 2 h 56 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Lighting Direction & Leadership

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

168 pages · audiobook 2 h 45 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Safety, Rigging & Stage Crew

Physical Preparation for AV

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

76 pages · audiobook 1 h 08 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Safety Awareness & Rigging Basics

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

97 pages · audiobook 1 h 30 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Rigging Awareness

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

82 pages · audiobook 1 h 10 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Electrical Fundamentals for AV

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

133 pages · audiobook 2 h 14 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Personal Fall Arrest Systems (PFAS) — Certification Prep

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

76 pages · audiobook 1 h 10 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Scissor Lift Operator — Certification Prep

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

72 pages · audiobook 1 h 05 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Boom Lift / AWP Operator — Certification Prep

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

72 pages · audiobook 1 h 04 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Forklift & Telehandler Operation

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

70 pages · audiobook 1 h 03 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Staging & Crew Chief

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

65 pages · audiobook 55 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Advanced Rigging

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

67 pages · audiobook 58 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Safety Program Development

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

67 pages · audiobook 57 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Broadcast Production

Broadcast Production 101

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

104 pages · audiobook 1 h 38 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Film & On-Set

Film Set Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

125 pages · audiobook 2 h 05 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Introduction to 24 Frame Playback

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

116 pages · audiobook 1 h 51 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Touring & Live Events

Touring Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

115 pages · audiobook 1 h 48 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

AV Networking & Control

Networking Basics

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

127 pages · audiobook 2 h 15 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Dante Level I–III

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

107 pages · audiobook 1 h 44 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Intercom & Communications Systems

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

78 pages · audiobook 1 h 06 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Timecode & Sync

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

114 pages · audiobook 1 h 50 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Show Control Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

126 pages · audiobook 1 h 59 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

AV Networking Intermediate

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

104 pages · audiobook 1 h 42 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

AV-over-IP & Network Design

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

101 pages · audiobook 1 h 42 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

IP Video Engineering

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

90 pages · audiobook 1 h 31 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Crestron Programming Basics

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

104 pages · audiobook 1 h 38 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

AV Integration & System Design

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AV Math Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

145 pages · audiobook 2 h 36 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Signal Flow & System Architecture

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

177 pages · audiobook 2 h 55 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

AV Troubleshooting Methodology

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

92 pages · audiobook 1 h 25 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

AV Documentation & System Design Basics

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

119 pages · audiobook 1 h 56 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

AV Business & Career

Freelance Business Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

89 pages · audiobook 1 h 23 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Client & Stakeholder Communication

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

80 pages · audiobook 1 h 09 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Technical Sales Fundamentals

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

81 pages · audiobook 1 h 14 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Technical Sales & Pre-Sales

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

108 pages · audiobook 1 h 54 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99

Account Management

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

78 pages · audiobook 1 h 13 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Business Development

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

87 pages · audiobook 1 h 24 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

Brand & Business Development

What it covers

WHAT'S INSIDE

71 pages · audiobook 1 h 04 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $6.99

More titles

Screen Management & Multi-Destination Switching

Many sources onto many screens, built in advance and recalled in order

What it covers

Screen management is the chair that puts content on every surface an audience looks at. This book covers what a screen management system is and how it differs from a production switcher, destinations and canvases and how one screen spans several outputs, layers and the layer budget that governs what a show can do, presets and running a cue list, multi-projector blending and warping and stacking, formats and reference and EDID, and the redundancy and troubleshooting that keep a screen lit. Written for the technician moving up from switching or media servers into the screens chair, with the vocabulary of Barco Event Master, Analog Way LivePremier and Christie Spyder side by side.

93 pages · audiobook 1 h 36 min (computer-narrated)

PDF · EPUB · Audiobook $8.99