Practical Recording Techniques - Third Edition ANNOTATION
Audience: Beginning and intermediate recording engineers; students; musicians; producers; audio enthusiasts.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Practical Recording Techniques, Third Edition is a hands-on, practical guide for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts, offering guidance on a variety of recording situations, including small professional studios and on-location recording for both popular and classical music. It gives advice on equipping a home studio -- from low-budget to advanced -- and includes suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. Practical Recording Techniques also explains how to judge recordings and use the equipment available to improve them. Filled with tips and shortcuts, Practical Recording Techniques covers situations and topics not' covered in similar texts, including documenting the session, recording spoken word, troubleshooting bad sound, and more. New to this edition are chapters on surround sound techniques, impedance, and audio for the Internet, as well as expanded information on digital recording and MIDI sequencing, and new information on automated mixing.
SYNOPSIS
A step-by-step approach to professional audio recording.
Covers the latest techniques for professional studio, home studio, and on-location.
Completely updated including extensive information on the latest advancements in MIDI and digital audio.
Practical Recording Techniques, Second Edition is a hands-on, practical guide for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts. The book prepares the reader for work in a home studio, a small professional studio, or an on-location recording session.
The book offers up-to-date information on the latest recording technology, such as digital tape recording, hard-disk recording, keyboard and digital workstations, SMPTE, and MIDI. It also guides the beginner through the basics, showing how to make quality recordings with the new breed of inexpensive home-studio equipment. Other topics include: choosing and operating recorder-mixers based on cassette, Mini-Disc, and hard-disk; hum prevention; the latest monitoring methods; microphone selection and placement; audio-for-video techniques; troubleshooting bad sound; guidelines for good sound. With its step-by-step approach and easy-to-read format, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to create professional sounding recordings.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Teaches readers to conduct a complete recording session from pre- production to master-reel or DAT assembly. For novice and intermediate recording engineers, and musicians. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ACCREDITATION
Bruce Bartlett is a microphone engineer, audio journalist, and recording engineer. He has written over 600 articles on audio topics for such magazines as Modern Recording, db, Recording, EQ, Mix, Recording Engineer/Producer, Radio World, Pro Audio Review, Audio, and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. He has also written a number of books including Stereo Microphone Techniques (Focal Press). A member of the Audio Engineering Society and Syn Aud Con, he holds a degree in physics and several patents on microphone design. He is also a musician and runs a 16-track digital studio specializing in live recording.
Jenny Bartlett is a freelance technical writer who specializes in audio and computer software.
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