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Practical Recording Techniques

The Step- by- Step Approach to Professional Audio Recording

  • 6th Edition - August 1, 2012
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett
  • Language: English

Get started recording with this hands-on, practical guide. Filled with tips and shortcuts, Practical Recording Techniques gives you advice on equipping a home studio (whether… Read more

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Description

Get started recording with this hands-on, practical guide. Filled with tips and shortcuts, Practical Recording Techniques gives you advice on equipping a home studio (whether low-budget or advanced), with suggestions for how to set up and use the gear, optimize acoustics, choose monitor speakers, and prevent hum. Learn to judge your recordings and improve them to produce professional-sounding results.

With Practical Recording Techniques, you get:

* A companion website with audio samples so you can hear the effects and techniques described in the book
* Updated information on plugs-ins, Pro Tools, iOS recording systems, and recording websites
* Fully up-to-date information on DAWs and the technical details of MIDI

Key features

* This popular bestseller covers the latest digital techniques for professional and home studios, and location recording
* Features a dedicated website packed with audio clips to enhance the text
* Includes a brand new chapter on computer recording procedures

Readership

Home and project studio engineers, musicians, students, and amateur recording enthusiasts. Suitable for courses such as Audio Production, Digital Audio, Music Technology, Introduction to Music Technology, Audio Recording, Audio Engineering Technology, and Basic Recording. Suitable for beginner and intermediate levels, and as reference for professional recording engineers.

Table of contents

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

Appendix A dB or Not dB
Appendix B Optimizing Your Computer for Multitrack Recording
Appendix C Impedance
Appendix D Phantom Power Explained
Appendix E Where to Learn More

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 1, 2012
  • Language: English

About the authors

BB

Bruce Bartlett

Affiliations and expertise
Microphone engineer/designer, audio journalist, recording engineer, live sound mixer, and audio consultant.

JB

Jenny Bartlett

Affiliations and expertise
Freelance technical writer specializing in audio and computer software.