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

An updated handbook provides a definitive overview of the latest digital techniques for recording music both on location and in recording studios, covering equipment selection and use, acoustics, microphone techniques, and analog and digital recording, as well as all new coverage of digital recording technology and techniques, a detailed instrument frequency range chart, special sound effects, and more. Original. (Intermediate)

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements
1 Music: Why We Record 2 The Recording Process 3 Sound, Signals, and Studio Acoustics 4 Equipping Your Studio 5 Monitoring 6 Microphones 7 Microphone-Technique Basics 8 Microphone Techniques 9 Effects and Signal Processors 10 Mixers and Mixing Consoles 11 Mixer Operation 12 Judging Sound Quality 13 Digital Recording 14 Computer Recording 15 Session Procedures, Mastering, and CD Burning 16 MIDI and Looping 17 On-Location Recording of Popular Music 18 On-Location Recording of Classical Music 19 Web Audio and Online Collaboration A dB or Not dB B Optimizing Your Computer for Multitrack Recording C Impedance D Phantom Power Explained E Where to Learn More Glossary

Product details

• Authors: Bruce Bartlett, Bruce Bartlett Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 12.09.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780240821535
• ISBN: 978-0-240-82153-5
• No. of pages: 608
• Series: Focal Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering