Practical Recording Techniques: The step-by-step approach to professional audio recording

Practical Recording Techniques: The step-by-step approach to professional audio recording

by Bruce Bartlett (Author), JennyBartlett (Author)

Synopsis

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.

NEW material includes:

* Extensive coverage of digital recording technology and techniques, including computer DAWs and optimizing them for best performance
* Extra coverage of the basics, such as speed of sound, inverse square law, sound-wave interference, reflection and diffusion
* Comprehensive look at all types of microphones, including live-vocal, digital and headworn mics
* A detailed instrument frequency range chart

Also new to this edition is an accompanying audio CD (Mac and PC compatible), which will enable you to actually hear the effects and techniques described in the book.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 632
Edition: 4
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 09 Aug 2005

ISBN 10: 0240806859
ISBN 13: 9780240806853

Media Reviews
This book is crammed full of everything you need to know to get started with professional recording...Overall this is a good general guide that could be useful to have on the shelf. - Future Music

This book is indispensable. - Stills Audio Motion

This book takes you through the basics very well and its real strong point is that it shares numerous nuggets gleaned from experience to do with all sorts of little things that become quite big things when you're faced with a problem. - www.mstation.org

It is packed with well-illustrated graphics and pictures and gives extensive guidance on everything from studio and location recording techniques through to publishing your sounds on the web.
James Eade, Lighting and Sound International