This book is for anyone who wants to record music at home that sounds as good as some project studio productions. The emphasis is on using a home computer as the central part of the recording studio, a few reasonably priced software applications, and carefully chosen sound equipment.
This book knows its audience: do-it-yourself-er hobbyist, who wants to know decent but not insanely expensive options. It has expansive scope: from rebuilding your garage to the internals of MIDI. It has opinions, for example that digital recording will get you much more quality per dollar. Also, its focus on digital recording home user puts me squarely in its audience. I just skipped the parts I already knew about (digital audio fundamentals, and so on). I read it years ago. It is probably severely dated now.