Reddit reviews Understanding Digital Signal Processing (3rd Edition)

Personally, I found Oppenheim's text very dry and difficult to get through. I would recommend Lyons textbook.

There seems to be two approaches to learning DSP: the mathematically rigorous approach, and the conceptual approach. I think most university textbooks are the former. While I'm not going to understate the importance of understanding the mathematics behind DSP, it's less helpful if you don't have a general understanding of the concepts.

There are two books I can recommend that take a conceptual approach: The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, which is free. There's also Understanding Digital Signal Processing, which I've never seen a bad word about. It recently got its third edition.

Oppenheim & Schafer is the usual standard text, as others have said. However, it's pretty theory-intensive and may not be that much of an improvement over your current book, if you are looking for alternative explanations.

I'd say you should look at Lyons' Understanding Digital Signal Processing instead of O&S. Also the Steven Smith guide that mostly_complaints mentioned is very accessible. Between Smith and Lyons you will get most of the knowledge that you need to actually do useful DSP work, if not pass a test in it.

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-3rd/dp/0137027419

There's probably a free pdf floating around somewhere on the net.

Understanding Digital Signal Processing by Richard Lyons is the best intro in my opinion:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0137027419/ref=mp_s_a_2?pi=54x75&qid=1344996249&sr=8-2

Teaches concepts without getting bogged down in the math details. Once you understand the concepts, get Oppenheim and Schafer to learn the dirty details.

The chapter on quadrature signals in this book is really good. It has some of the best illustrations of the concept that I have come across. The amazon link also lets you browse that chapter for free.

I found Rick Lyon's book a much easier read.

The fact that you mentioned that it'd be cool to work on a DAW tells me that you want to go low level. What you want to study is digital signal processing or DSP. I recommend Understanding Digital Signal Processing. Also watch This talk by Timur Doumler. Or anything by him. I recommend that you pick a programming language and try to output a sin wave to the speakers, then go on from there.

Also check those out:

https://theaudioprogrammer.com/

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

https://blog.demofox.org/#Audio

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Good luck.

Understanding DSP by Lyons, hands down. Get it and never look back. AWESOME book. http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-Edition/dp/0137027419

Understanding Digital Signal Processing EET400,401 Electronics and Computer Engineering Bachelors Degree

Links
www.dspguru.com

Videos
Oppenheimer's MIT Lectures
(http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-008-digital-signal-processing-spring-2011/video-lectures/)
Digital Filters I through V (Hamming Learning to Learn on Youtube)
Monty's Presentations http://www.xiph.org/video/

Books
Schaum's Digital Signal Processing (<= Recommended It's good and cheap.)
http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Digital-Processing-Edition/dp/0071635092
Signals and System Made Easy
http://www.amazon.com/Signals-Systems-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/0964375214
ftp://ftp.cefetes.br/cursos/EngenhariaEletrica/Hans/Sinais%20e%20Sistemas/ZIZI%20Press%20-%20Signals%20and%20Systems%20Made%20Ridiculously%20Simple.pdf

Discrete Time Signal Processing
http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Time-Signal-Processing-Edition-Prentice/dp/0131988425/

Discrete Time Signal Processing (Older version I used in school)
http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Time-Signal-Processing-Edition-Prentice-Hall/dp/0137549202/

DSP using MATLAB
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Signal-Processing-Using-MATLAB/dp/1111427372/

Digital Signal Processing Prokais
(Similar to Oppenheimer book, but found it clearer in some instances from what I remember. )
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Signal-Processing-4th-Edition/dp/0131873741/

Books I've seen around
Understanding Digital Signal Processing
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-Edition/dp/0137027419/

Scientist-Engineers-Digital-Signal-Processing
http://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Engineers-Digital-Signal-Processing/dp/0966017633/

http://www.dspguide.com

Get Rick Lyons' book, he makes the math easy.

https://www.amazon.ca/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-3rd/dp/0137027419

Thanks for the great reply!

The Lessons In Electric Circuits was already on my radar, and I believe will be the first resource in electronics I go through after hearing it beat in my head yet again!

That DSP book I have not seen. I just grabbed a copy and it looks like a great text. I mentioned this post to a fellow electronics enthusiast and he loaned me a copy of a book he said was exceptional for entry into the world of DSP: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-3rd/dp/0137027419/ DSP is pretty complex, More than likely I will go through both to fully absorb this topic.

EMRFD sounds like a cookbook. Given that its by ARRL I expect its quality to be superb. I am not against these type of text, I have a few already, however I'd rather have more of the theory at this point. I imagine this will be great once I am satisified with the basics, and want to build an actual radio with its operation noted.

Although not specifically targeting FPGAs, “Understanding DSP” by Richard Lyons is very good. Very readable.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0137027419/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_FQ4ZCbSRHV7QQ

I think The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing and Understanding Digital Signal Processing and generally considered the most accessible introductions. I've gotten more mileage out of Understanding DSP; I feel like it goes into a little more detail and really works to walk you through concepts, step by step.

http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processing-3rd/dp/0137027419


Aside from searching out good learning resources, IMO nothing is more helpful for learning than setting up your environment with Matlab, Jupyter notebooks, or whatever you're going to use, and getting comfortable with the tools you'll be using to explore these topics.

Hands down, no question, I would recommend Richard Lyons' book FIRST.

This is the DSP book: Understanding Digital Signal Processing by Lyons. It's actually quite readable.