The Audio Circuits Cookbook provides a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules - "building blocks" that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. This book is intended for intermediate-level electronics hobbyists and students who want to design professional quality audio devices without needing an engineering degree. It provides practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits, with minimal math and theory. It's definitely not a "Dummies" book, but there's plenty for beginners, and many basics are included so nobody is left behind. Professional engineers will find much of value as well in the complete and tested circuits.

More than 80 circuits are included covering every aspect of audio circuit design, from basic elements such as active rectifiers, peak followers, oscillators, and simulated inductors, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, and microphone preamps. Every type of active filter commonly used for audio is included and explained in detail, along with every audio circuit needed to build a complete analog synthesizer. The circuits in this book can be used and reused again and again, though readers don't even need to understand how they work. Of course, detailed explanations are provided using plain English.

Further, this book includes much more than circuit building blocks. It explains which capacitor types are best for a given application. It includes numerous charts and tables such as standard 1 percent resistor values, musical note frequencies, and third-octave bands. Many types of active filters are used in audio, and all require tedious math calculations. To avoid that this book includes a spreadsheet to calculate component values for you. Other spreadsheets include Ohm's Law and Decibel calculations. Tutorials include advanced multi-layer PC Board design and more. It also explains the fabulous free LTspice program that greatly simplifies and speeds up circuit development, while avoiding the need to spend thousands of dollars on parts and test equipment. Every circuit in this book is provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects or built onto your own PC boards.

I sent the book to the publisher on October 2, 2024, and it's scheduled for release in June 2025. Amazon is now accepting pre-orders.

You can view the Table of Contents now, which includes a list of all the circuits and tutorials included in the book, and a detailed description of all the tutorial information in each chapter is listed in the Chapters Abstracts page.