In Sum Josh McDaniel counts among his areas of expertise audio engineering, audio restoration, digital audio in all its permutations, digital video, aesthetics from Heraclitus through McGann (with an emphasis on the Romantic period, specializing in William Blake), intellectual property law and patent law. Josh has published approximately 150 articles on subjects ranging from bleeding-edge storage hardware to abstract expressionist filmmaking, two books on the subject of digital audio and audio restoration, and served as a contributing editor to the magazine of record for the optical storage industry, where he wrote a regular column. Over the course of his career, Josh has written for a number of publications, both trade and mainstream. As an authority in these various fields, Josh has been called upon to serve as a consultant, a technical consultant, an expert witness, an art critic, and a practicing audio restoration specialist.