# Gear

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- Book: [Gear](https://www.bookquiver.com/eliot-bates/gear) ([Gear.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eliot-bates/gear.md))
- Authors: [Eliot Bates](https://www.bookquiver.com/eliot-bates), [Samantha Bennett](https://www.bookquiver.com/samantha-bennett)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6255-185-4
- Pages: 394
- Published: 2025-05-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A critical examination of the twenty-first century fetishization of professional audio technologies, and how it led to a new social formation: gear cultures. Gear: mixing consoles, outboard effects processors,...