Practical Recording Techniques: The step-by-step approach to professional audio recording, 5th Edition
Bruce Bartlett
Jenny Bartlett
ISBN: 978-0-240-81144-4
Practical Recording Techniques is a hands-on practical guide for all aspects of recording, ideal for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this book offers advice on equipping a home studio (both low-budget and advanced), with suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also tells how to judge recordings and improve them to produce maximum results. Two extensive glossaries clearly explain audio jargon and sound-quality descriptions…[more]
Sound and Recording: An Introduction, 6th Edition
Francis Rumsey
Tim McCormick
ISBN: 978-0-240-52163-3
This popular and best-selling
text introduces trainee engineers and music recording students
to the principles of sound, perception, audio technology and systems.
Vital reading for anyone entering music recording, broadcasting
and associated industries. Throughout there are invaluable fact
files that make key information easily digestible. This fifth edition
is bang up to date, with expanded information on digital audio
principles, systems and applications and digital mastering with
DAT and digital audio C... [more]
Modern Recording Techniques, 7th Edition
David Miles Huber
Robert A Runstein
ISBN: 978-0-240-81069-0
As the most popular and authoritative
guide to recording available, Modern Recording
Techniques provides
everything you need to master the tools and day-to-day practice
of music recording and production. The sixth edition has been expanded
to cover the latest digital audio technology and features a new
section on surround sound. For those who are just starting out
or are looking for their next job in the industry, this edition
also provides essential advice on career options and networking... [more]
The MIDI Manual: A Practical Guide to MIDI in the Project Studio,
3rd Edition
David Miles Huber
ISBN: 978-0-240-80798-0
The MIDI Manual, 3rd Edition is a complete reference on MIDI, written by David Miles Huber,
a well-respected sound engineer and author. This guide provides
a clear explanation of what MIDI is, how to use electronic instruments,
what sequencers are, and how to use them. Your students will
learn how to set up an efficient MIDI system to get the best sound
from their music.
The MIDI Manual is also packed full of useful tips and practical
examples on sequencing and mixing techniques, illustrated throughout
with helpful photos and screengrabs... [more]
Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools
Roey Izhaki
ISBN: 978-0-240-52068-1
Mixing Audio remains one of
the most illusive arts of recording practice and can take a lifetime
to master. Mixing Audio offers extensive coverage of the concepts,
practices, and tools that mixing entails. Covering different
genres of music and recent trends, Izhaki tackles and explains
both the practical and theoretical aspects of the art, from the
mixing process, to mixing objectives, to utilizing tools to the
best extent. The DVD includes over 2000 clips that can be used
by the student to recreate the completed mixes. This book is a
vital read for any student wanting to succeed in mixing... [more]
Sound FX:
Unlocking the Creative Potential of Recording Studio Effects
Alex Case
ISBN: 978-0-240-52032-2
FX introduces today’s
up and coming musician to the fantastic creative potential of the
most popular instrument today- the home studio. Explaining the
basic and advanced signal processing techniques used in professional
music production (EQ, compression, delay, reverb etc), using real
world popular music examples and an emphasis on the perceptual
results and musical value of these effects, FX teaches the Recording
Musician how to achieve professional production standards and maximise
their creative potential... [more]
Understanding and Crafting the Mix: The Art of Recording, 2nd
Edition
William Moylan
ISBN: 978-0-240-80755-3
Understanding and Crafting
the Mix gives you clear and systematic methods for identifying,
evaluating, and shaping the artistic elements in music and audio
recording. The exercises throughout help you to develop critical
listening and evaluating skills and gain greater control over the
quality of your recordings.
William Moylan takes an inside look
into a range of popular music, including recordings by The Beatles,
offering you insights into making meaningful sound judgements during
recording. Sample production sequences and descriptions of the
recordist’s roles as composer,
conductor and performer provides you with a clear view of the entire
recording process... [more]
Mastering Audio:
The art and the science
2nd Edition
Bob Katz
ISBN: 978-0-240-80837-6
Written by an award winning, highly respected professional, Mastering Audio gives you a thorough introduction to the unique procedures and technical issues involved in mastering.
Suitable for all levels of students and professionals, it is ideal for anyone who wants to increase their mastery of digital and analog audio: musicians, producers, A&R, mastering, recording and mixing engineers.
Fully updated to cover the latest technologies, Mastering Audio discusses audio philosophy and art: sequencing, leveling, processing; how to make a record album radio-ready; mixing as it reltes to mstering. Divided into 5 parts, the book begins with the basics - monitoring, mastering techniques, useful tutorials and the fundamentals of dithering and decibels and moves on to more advanced concepts - jitter and clocking, monitor collaboration as well as multi channel audio, miking and acoustics. Leading-edge audio concepts are explained in an easy-to-grasp holistic style....[more]
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 4th Edition
David Howard
Jamie Angus
ISBN: 978-0-240-52175-6
With a unique approach covering
both acoustics and psychoacoustics from a musical standpoint in
one volume this book is ideal for students taking courses in: music
technology, studio recording popular/film/video music, composition,
electronic/electroacoustic composition, media arts.
This new updated edition covers a broad range of topics providing
a thorough and essential grounding in the introduction to acoustics
and psychoacoustics, including: Principles of sound, Sound transmission
and interaction, Human hearing, Psychoacoustics Musical timbre,
pitch and loudness perception, Noise induced hearing loss, Harmonics
and overtones, Tuning systems and temperament, Consonance and dissonance,
Sound generation in string, brass and percussion musical instruments,
The pipe organ, The singing voice, Sound in different environments
(architectural acoustics), Reverberation Processing sound electronically... [more]
Sound Synthesis and Sampling, 3rd Edition
Martin Russ
ISBN: 978-0-240-52105-3
Reviews of the previous edition:
Sound Synthesis and Sampling provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs and practices- revised and placed in a modern context, providing a guide to the theory of sound and sampling in the context of software and hardware that enables sound making. For the revised edition emphasis is on expanding explanations of software and computers, new sections include techniques for making sound physically, sections within analog and digital electronics. Martin Russ is well known and the book praised for its highly readable and non-mathematical approach making the subject accessible to readers starting out on computer music courses or those working in a studio...[more]
Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer
Andrea Pejrolo
Richard DeRosa
ISBN: 978-0-240-52021-6
Get complete guidance on both traditional orchestration
and modern production techniques with this unique book. With effective
explanations and clear illustrations, you will learn how to integrate
the traditional approach to orchestration with the modern sequencing
techniques and tools available. You will discover how to bridge
the two approaches in order to enhance your final production. The
accompanying CD includes a comprehensive and wide selection of
examples, templates and sounds to allow you to hear the techniques
within the book. By covering both approaches, this book provides
a comprehensive and solid learning experience that will develop
your skills and prove extremely competitive in the music production
business... [more]
Record Label Marketing, 2nd Edition
Tom Hutchison
Amy Macy
Paul Allen
ISBN: 978-0-240-81238-0
Record Label Marketing provides
clear, in-depth information on corporate marketing processes, combining
marketing theory with the real world "how to" practiced
in marketing war rooms. This industry-defining book is clearly
illustrated throughout with figures, tables, graphs, and glossaries.
Record Label Marketing is essential reading for current and aspiring
professionals and students, and also offers a valuable overview
of the music industry... [more]
Artist Management for the Music Business
Paul Allen
ISBN: 978-0-240-80924-3
Allen prepares you for the realities of successfully directing
the careers of talented performers in the high-risk, high-reward
music business.
You will learn to prepare yourself for a career in artist management – and
then learn the tools to coach, lead, organize time, manage finances,
market an artist, and carve out a successful career path for both
yourself and your clients... [more]
Web Marketing for the Music Business
Tom Hutchison
ISBN: 978-0-240-81044-7
Interested in promoting, selling and distributing music online, got the website but not sure what to do next? is Web Marketing for the Music Business designed to help develop the essential internet presence they want and need.
Looking at how the web has developed, providing instructions on how to set up a web site as well as how to use the Internet to promote the artist and the web site. The book includes information on maximizing web sites to increase traffic, online grassroots marketing tactics that will advance an artists career and social networking sites such as MySpace. There is also a dedicated website with online resources for web support to give the information needed to confidently market music online....[more]
Pro Tools 8: Music Production, Recording, Editing and Mixing
Mike Collins
ISBN: 978-0-240-52075-9
Pro Tools 8 for Music Production is the definitive guide to the software for new and professional users. Extensively illustrated in colour and packed with time saving hints and tips, it is a great reference to keep on hand as a constant source of information. The book takes a real-world approach, explaining the hardware components and options in full so that you can choose the right system for your particular needs. Detailed chapters on the user interface, the new MIDI and scoring features, recording, editing, signal processing and mixing blend essential knowledge with tutorials and practical examples from actual recordings...[more]
Pro Tools for Film and Video
Dale Angell
ISBN: 978-0-240-52077-3
This step-by-step guide for editing sound to picture using Pro Tools starts by explaining the Pro Tools systems and covers all key audio topics, including equipment, sound, music, effects, output and mixing tools, to give users the skills needed to work on any project from big budget feature film to amateur DV video in mono, stereo or surround sound.
Clearly set out and thorough in coverage, the book takes a practical real world approach, a live 35mm film project runs through the chapters illustrating how different functions are added to a film providing the real detail of how to apply it to an edit. Extensively illustrated in color and packed with time-saving hints and tips, the companion website, http://booksite.focalpress.com/Angell., contains the various Pro Tools sessions of the project film as it moves through audio editing, ADR, mixing and final 35mm release prints....[more]
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