This is the ideal handbook for musicians who want to make high-quality recordings at home. The author's basic philosophy is that musicianship not equipment is the essential ingredient in a great recording. With skill creativity and a can-do attitude anyone can produce CD-quality recorded music at home with a minimum of technology and training. The book makes general practical musical sense of the complex technology of home recording. It will prove useful to those just getting started in home recording to those trying to fill in holes in their recording background and to musicians who would just like to understand more clearly what goes on in the studio. Thebook is based on a popular series of columns in Guitar Player magazine.

You Should Know to Track Music-Recording music can be a daunting task especially in the present day with its ever-changing technologies and environments. This one-of-a-kind collection of modern easy-to-understand techniques for recording music in a variety of settings provides tools and information that set you well on your way to capturing high-quality sounds on par with those recorded by seasoned professionals. Veteran producer engineer and author Bill Gibson succinctly presents a wide variety of subjects including: preproduction · room environments · interfaces · microphone types and techniques · recording drums guitar bass piano vocals and electronic instrumetns · studio recording effects · and more.

in the Home Studio-Today's smart singer-songwriter needs to be able to produce high-quality demo recordings without breaking the bank. With this informative Berklee Guide you can learn how to acquire and use songwriter-appropriate home studio gear so that you can create your own professional recordings at home whatever your budget living arrangement or technological aptitude. By the end of the book you will understand the key concepts of how the recording process works and how to get the best sound possible out of whatever equipment you own and whatever style of music you produce. The Singer-Songwriter's Guide To Recording In The Home Studio makes recordingeasy ? so you can put your effort into thinking about creative songwriting and performing rather than struggling with technology.

Contains 44 in-depth articles geared toward the home recording novice with helpful information on studio setup and sound conditioning cables and connectors gear selection and issues monitoring recording effects mixing andmastering. Now you can have access to those indispensable studio basics that can allow you to create recordings just like the pros! Includes DVD.

The Essential Guide To Songwriting Producing & Recording brings to those of all ages a simple easy to understand approach to learning songwriting producing and recording. Written by an acclaimed instructor at several major music schools this book puts incredibly sophisticated knowledge into plain everyday language with stories metaphors photos illustrations and examples that are sure to educate as well as entertain.

The Musicians Guide to Home Recording. The updated edition of this popular guide includes advice on creating great demos, secrets to using four-track Portasound cassette decks, tips for assembly, the best use of 16-track home studios, a buyer's guide to new and used equipment, hints from studio musicians, and more.

A host of secrets hints and how-to tips that will improve and enhance your recording work whether at home or in the pro studio. Contains dozens of entries from the personal experiences of producers such as Tom Dowd Pete Anderson Dick Shurman Desmond Child and Steve Vai. The accompanying CD features nearly an hour of audio demonstrations to help you finally get the results you've been striving for.

First published in 1977 Jean-Claude Veilhan (born in 1940) compiled the enlightening compilation Die Musik Des Barock Und Ihre Regeln towards the beginning of his career. As a prominent Recorder player himself Veilhan performed much of the Baroque repertoire for the instrument and therefore was well acquainted with the genre. Die Musik Des Barock Und Ihre Regeln encompasses all rules and styles of Baroque for every instrument. This Veilhan book is essential to the understanding of Baroque music.

This comprehensive home-studio guide will show you how to create the highest-quality recordings by honing your production skills and engineering techniques. With a complete explanation of the entire production process you'll findout everything successful producers and engineers need to know making your music projects stand out from the rest. Learn how to:Mix and master your recordings like the pros Run a recording session andproduce Set up your home studio and improve the efficiency of your system Set up microphones to capture superior sounds Prevent recording disasters before they occur Get the perfect performance from an artistCreate and stick to budgets organize schedules and negociates contracts Master the intricacies of Pro Tools with keystroke shortcuts and technical instruction Record real-sounding MIDI tracks Producers engineers songwriters and artists: Develop your production and engineering expertise. Realize the full potential of your songwriting and musical artistry.

Top Record Producers Tell How They Craft The Hits-Behind the Glass Volume II presents another prime collection of firsthand interviews with the world's top record producers and engineers sharing their creative secrets and hit-making techniques - from the practical to the artistic.In these pages you'll find Daniel Lanois (U2 Bob Dylan) discussing the future of digital recording; T-Bone Burnett (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss) sharing his unique view of creating complex low end; and Hugh Padgham (Police Genesis) analyzing the state of the business today. For real-world advice on everything from home recording to mixing to coaching a nervous singer check out author Howard Massey'sconversations with Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse) Tony Brown (Reba McEntire) Gus Dudgeon (Elton John) John Simon (The Band) Russ Titelman (Steve Winwood) Bruce Swedien (Michael Jackson) Rodney Jerkins (Mary J. Blige) Simon Climie (Eric Clapton) Matt Serletic (Matchbox Twenty) and more.

?Where Legends Begin?: this book teaches the basics of composing recording editing mixing and processing audio using the free Pro Tools First software. Designed for the beginner in digital audio Audio Production Basics with Pro Tools First offers a first step for aspiring audio engineers new media professionals and anyone else seeking better results for their audio endeavors.We cover basic computer and digital audio workstation concepts audio and MIDI recording techniques the Pro Tools user interface techniques for selecting and navigating fundamentals of mixing and signal processing and options for creating a stereo bounce. We also provide plentyof power tips for going beyond the basics using many of the same tools the pros use to unleash the true power of this award-winning technology.This book serves as a resource both for Pro Tools First users and for users of commercial versions of Pro Tools software. Readers who are running a paid version of Pro Tools software can use the techniques and exercises in this book with virtually identical results to those running Pro Tools First software.Discover your inner artist set yourself free turn your ideas into incredible songs unleash your creativity and start your journey. Take your music further with Pro Tools.

Think you know Sonar? Think again! Sonar 7 is one of the most feature-packed professional digital audio workstation software packages available for Windows-based recording studios. It's a powerhouse recording application with expansive features that are hard for any other DAW to compete with and once you learn to use it you'll know why! This DVD from BCI Media and Hal Leonard will teach you all you need to know to master the incredible array of features in SONAR 7 to make your music sound amazing. Even experienced SONAR users should take a look at this DVD to understand this comprehensive new offering of powerful creative tools in SONAR 7. This DVD will teach you allabout SONAR's complete MIDI overhaul with Smart MIDI Tools and dozens of other new features and introduce you to the most powerful Step Sequencer found in any DAW. Explore other new features like SONAR 7's new true linear phase mastering plug-ins internal sidechaining and delay compensation for external hardware.

Copyright Essentials for Today's Music Business-With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. By looking at the law and its recent history you will understand the new issues introduced by the digital age as well as continuing issues of traditional copyright law. Whether you are an artist lawyer entertainment Web site administrator record label executive student or other participant in the music industry this book will help you understand how copyright law affects you helping you use the law toyour benefit. - How do you get fair compensation for your work and avoid making costly mistakes? - Can you control who is selling your music on their website? - Is it legal to create mash-ups? - What qualifies as fair use? - How do you clear another artist's samples to use in your own recordings? - What is the Creative Commons/Copyleft movement? - How do you clear music for use in an online music service or store? - Who decides who gets paid how much and by whom? You will learn the answers to these questions as well as: - The basics of copyright law looking at the Copyright Act while explaining it in plain language - How revenue streams for music are generated under copyright law - The reasoning behind high-profile court decisions related to copyright violations -What licenses are needed for the legal online delivery of music - The intricacies of using music on sites like YouTube Pandora and Spotify - Deficiencies in current copyright law and new business model ideas