Practical Recording Techniques

by Bruce Bartlett (Author), Bruce Bartlett (Author), Jenny Bartlett (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.25

  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 and computer workstations. The book prepares the reader for work in a home studio, a small professional studio, or an on-location recording session.rding, 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.
  
  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.
  

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  Hands-on practical guide covering 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), 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.
  
  New material covered in the 5th edition to include:
  * complete revision and update of digital media sections
  * new section on mixing tips
  * new section on podcasts and file sharing
  * new section equipment and connector levels
  * new section function and connector types
  * new section on digital metering
  * new section exporting projects from other studios
  * new photos