Microphones for the Recording Musician: Reference Books: Reference

The book series Musician's Guide to Home Recording takes a clear practical approach to today's world of computer-based recording. Each book in the series focuses with laser-like precision on a particular topic. Titles include How to Choose and Use Audio Interfaces  How to Create Superior Mixes  How to Record and Mix Great Vocals and more. Readers can choose individual books to increase their knowledge in specific areas or treat the series as a complete course and cover selected topics at their own pace. This book focuses on microphones as the essential link between the recording process and vocals guitars pianos drums and other acoustic sounds. Choosing the right mic can make or break a song. Authors Phil O'Keefe and Craig Anderton cover how to choose and apply mics with real-world examples and explanations. Topics include the following:• Understanding different microphone types• Essential miking accessories• Mic preamps and connections• Stereo miking techniques• How to mic specific instrumentsLoaded with illustrations and featuring sidebars with details on selected topics for those who want to know “why” as well as “how ” Microphones for the Recording Musician gives the practical knowledge needed to make the best possible home studio recordings.

Must-Know Audio and Recording Principles-The Blackbird Academy Foundations: Must-Know Audio and Recording Principles is designed to build your music engineering and audio production skills. The principles are directed at beginners to more advanced music creators remixers musicians songwriters singers and those curious about what it takes to record overdub and mix quality music. Those who aspire to music from ages 10 and up will gain operational skills and understanding of basic to advanced recording concepts including: - Signal flow - Microphone recognition and advanced placement - The keys to achieving great results when recording - Essential analog and digital gear used in audio production - Using adigital audio workstation - Understanding analog to digital and digital to analog conversion - Using plug-ins and analog processing when recording overdubbing and mixing - Developing software skills such as tuning processing editing and mixing - Console basics and operation - Using auziliary tracks and buses - Using shortcuts to build speed - Learning how to listen - And much more! Those more advanced will also achieve benefits from reading what was written around the gear and workflow at Blackbird Studio the world-renowned production facility located in Nashville Tennessee. Blackbird has produced hundreds of hit records from a variety of artists including Taylor Swift Jack White Martina McBride The Black Keys Kings of Leon Keith Urban Tim McGraw and many more. Readers will learn an impressive range of valuable information only known in the inner circles of production at the heart of Music City USA.