Practical Recording Techniques: The Step-By-Step Approach to Professional Audio Recording

ISBN-13: 9781138904439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 522 str.

Bruce Bartlett; Jenny Bartlett

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Practical Recording Techniques covers all aspects of recording, perfect for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this hands-on, practical guide gives advice on equipping a home studio (whether low-budget or advanced) and suggestions for set-up, acoustics, effects, choosing mics and monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also instructs how to mike instruments and vocals, judge recordings and improve them, work with MIDI and loops, do mastering, and put your music on the web. Two chapters cover live recording of classical and popular music.

New in the seventh edition:

• Complete update of all types of recording equipment, plug-ins, and recording software
• Increased focus on current industry and classroom trends like DAW signal flow and operation (during recording and mixdown), while still covering analog fundamentals
• Updated organization to focus and break up topics
• Updated tips on optimizing your computer for multitrack recording for both Windows and Mac
• New sections on streaming audio, mobile-device recording, live recording with digital consoles, and psychoacoustics
• Listen Online boxes highlight where audio samples on the website relate to chapter discussions
• Updated companion website with audio examples, articles, and suggested activities, plus expanded and more user-friendly links to the best sites for videos and articles, recording techniques, equipment, and other learning resources. Instructors can download figures from the book, the audio files, and a test bank

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
PREFACE 
CHAPTER 1: A Basic Overview of the Recording Process 
CHAPTER 2: Sound and Psychoacoustics 
CHAPTER 3: Studio Acoustics 
CHAPTER 4: Signal Characteristics of Audio Devices 
CHAPTER 5: Equipping Your Studio 
CHAPTER 6: Monitoring 
CHAPTER 7: Microphones
CHAPTER 8: Microphone Technique Basics 
CHAPTER 9: Microphone Techniques for Instruments and Vocals 
CHAPTER 10: Equalization (EQ)                                                                                        
CHAPTER 11: Effects and Signal Processors 
CHAPTER 12: Mixers and Mixing Consoles 
CHAPTER 13: Digital Audio         
CHAPTER 14: Computer Recording 
CHAPTER 15: DAW Signal Flow 
CHAPTER 16: DAW Operation 
CHAPTER 17: Judging Sound Quality with Critical Listening 
CHAPTER 18: MIDI and Loops 
CHAPTER 19: Session Procedures 
CHAPTER 20: Mastering and CD Burning
CHAPTER 21: On-Location Recording of Popular Music 
CHAPTER 22: On-Location Recording of Classical Music 
CHAPTER 23: Web Audio, Streaming, and Online Collaboration 
APPENDIX A: dB or Not dB 
APPENDIX B: Optimizing Your Computer for Multitrack Recording 
APPENDIX C: Impedance 
APPENDIX D: Phantom Power Explained 
APPENDIX E: Legacy Recording Devices 
AUDIO GLOSSARY 
INDEX