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The Online Guitar Store - Practical Recording Techniques, Fourth Edition: The step-by-step approach to professional audio recording
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List Price: $46.95
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Manufacturer: Focal Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3893
EAN: 9780240806853
ISBN: 0240806859
Label: Focal Press
Manufacturer: Focal Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 632
Publication Date: 2005-08-08
Publisher: Focal Press
Release Date: 2005-08-15
Studio: Focal Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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Summary: Detailed, professional and still easy-to-read
Comment: This is a great book. I bought it as a textbook for a class I took, and I very much enjoyed it. It has great, detailed instructions on everything from setting up a home studio to how to mic different instruments to tips on creating good sound. It's also fairly up-to-date and has lots of real-world examples of gear and software that the authors recommend. Buy it - you'll learn something new.
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Summary: VERY basic stuff
Comment: For what it is, this book does a good job of introducing newbies to audio production. It claims to be for intermediate recordists too, but that is a stretch. If you have any experience recording anything at all, this book will probably not be very helpful. There is a section near the end that mentions some newer microphone arrays for recording in surround. To me this seems too advanced for beginners, but does not offer enough detail for veterans to really implement. I was disappointed in this book for being so utterly basic, but that could be terrific for other readers who need to be walked through the process setp-by-step.
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Summary: Good intro to music recording, but nothing extraordinary
Comment: I'm in the middle of reading this book for an audio production course. It was the assigned text, and while it's not as expensive as many textbooks these days, it's also not a very well produced book. There are no photos, only illustrations that look like they were done on an Apple IIci. The writing is clear, though they repeat information about several topics. My biggest complaint is that it focuses on music recording, while I'm interested in other genres of audio. The authors don't ever acknowledge that you would want to recording something besides music. If you want to learn about music recording and want a very practical approach, this book is a good introduction. But I wish it considered theoretical questions beyond the merely practical.
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Summary: Good reference
Comment: This book is somewhat dull to read straight through. It includes alot of details that may not be relevant and gives alot of examples that may be completely useless to the reader. Many concepts and passages are repeated throughout the book. That being said, the book makes for an excellent reference for many circumstances. From studio microphone techniques to recording live events, this book gives in-depth details and offers more than just one suggestion for all situations. It also includes a 4 page sound glossary and a nearly 50 page general glossary. This is a great buy for any non-professional recording studio.
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