Whole book viewable online, some might be interested....

http://www.dspguide.com

Ah, a great summer beach read ... not! 

Actually this would suit me down to the ground on the beach...

It is a very good book! I have the original edition published by one of the Semiconductor manufacturers back in the day when they did this sort of thing<G>. It was either Motorola or Analog Devices - gotta go find it I guess... it was Analog Devices!

They had a wealth of information, and still do, but they don't come to your office with SDKs and provide seminars any more - at least no where that I've worked in recent history<G>!

The Analog Devices edition is dated 1999, and a lot has happened in the ensuing 17 years, but this is not a cookbook, nor is it chip specific. I thought it was an excellent way to wrap my head around DSP. Still do.
http://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/scientist_engineers_guide.html
 
However, the book that really set me on the path was from a mixed signal processing course, and whattayaknow, that's available too:
http://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/mixed_signal_dsp_design_book.html
 
If you are working with audio you should probably have at least a passing familiarity with the analog side, and this is a good book, also from A/D:
http://www.analog.com/en/...t-design-handbook.html
 
And so is this:
http://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/op-amp-applications-handbook.html
Although I think the 1980s books from Walt Jung and National Semiconductor are better as introductions, and go a little deeper.
 
If you are interested in audio systems then there is an entire book list that is not available from A/D, but that's a different topic<G>!
 
And it is all good summer reading!!!!!!

Thanks for those links. I'm really interested in this stuff - my problem is that since I'm not that clued up on things like physics and math (I was at one point but a lot of time has passed) then I find myself getting sidetracked researching concepts that I'm not 100% with. 5 minutes into the book I posted and I was already Googling for articles about standard deviations and variance, lol.

I'm in the same boat James - graduated with a degree in Physics in the early 1980s, and really haven't used the math much since.

One of the 'tricks' that helped me get through undergrad, and still helps me today, is to remember NOT to try to solve the equations, but rather to just see what they are trying to tell me in general. If that makes sense. It is too easy (at least for me) to try to solve each equation for some set of values - and I just don't have the chops to do that! (Probably never did, but I don't remember<G>!)

http://www.dspguide.com <- is there any way to download the entire thing?

There was a zipped file of all  the chapters, but  I don't remember where I saw it... I'll look

sharke
I'm not that clued up on things like physics and math (I was at one point but a lot of time has passed)

I know what you mean.  At one point, when I was studying electrical engineering at University of Ill. back in the late 60s, I probably had command of most of the math needed to penetrate the world of DSP processing (although I'm pretty certain I never encountered Chebychev polynomials at any point).  But that ship sailed a *long* time ago.
 
Still, I dipped into the dspguide.com book and found it surprisingly accessible.  I cheated and skipped ahead to and read the chapters on convolution.  After doing so, this subject now makes way more sense to me than it ever did before.  When my reading list clears, I fully plan to go back and read this book front to back (or a least as far as I can get without drowning in incomprehensible math).  Thanks for the recommendation.

The funny thing is, if you read the first chapter it clearly states that the aim of the book is to get the concepts across without using complex math. I guess "complex" is a relative term