Music-Recording & Reproduction

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac's epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the...

A clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market. The revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques, the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording, humanizing drum patterns, mixing with plug-ins...

"From Downbeat To Vinyl: Bill Putnam's Legacy to the Recording Industry" is an inside look at the recording business in its heyday, 1950 to 1975. No, this isn't another "Now it can be told" book, but a real account of the business written by...

Echo and Reverb is the first history of acoustically imagined space in popular music recording. The book documents how acoustic effects--reverberation, room ambience, and echo--have been used in recordings since the 1920s to create virtual sonic architectures and landscapes. Author Peter Doyle traces the...

The complete DIY guide to creating music for Film, TV and all new media. Dean Krippaehne's book "Demystifying The Cue" contains tips and strategies for learning to write, record and produce quality music quickly in your home studio. Learn how the pros break through...

Electronics Concepts, Labs, and Projects introduces concepts, techniques, and tools needed for productive growth in the fields of audio, video, and multimedia recording. It includes essential theory relating to electronics principles specific to the audio world, as well as practical lessons on soldering, how...

(RECORDING INSTRUCTION). 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...

Author Sahpreem King lays out the steps one must take to learn the art and craft of hip-hop production. He begins with a brief history of the genre, explains what a producer and beat-maker does, how to build a studio, assemble your production team,...

Learn to Produce EDM Like a Pro & Take Your Music To A Whole New Level Why do some producers make great music after just one year, while others still sound average?The answer? It's how they learn and practice. The most successful EDM producers...

This is volume six in the series of the General Theory of Interpretation and offers an insight into Drama and MusicAuthor: Giorgio A. Pinton, Emilio BettiISBN-10: 1544048408ISBN-13: 9781544048406Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2017Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23d

A look over the shoulder during the process of designing a unique guitar amplifier. Insights and opinions on design principles and best-practices for getting great tone in any design. Novel approaches and solutions to common circuit-design problems. Performance and tone improvements for common tube...

Expand your aural and sensory experiences with Extreme Music. An exploration of tomorrow's sounds (and silences) today. Michael Tau had spent years obsessed by the extremes of musical expression. Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between is the culmination of decades of...

Produce Your Own Sounds with GarageBand!Whether you want to record lyrics, an instrument, or a podcast, GarageBand can help you achieve ultimate sound perfection.GarageBand Basics is a beginner-friendly guide of all the basic knowledge you need to start using GarageBand.With mini tutorials on each...

ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN PRESENTS THE RECORDING SECRETS BEHIND 50 GREAT ALBUMSAuthor: Kylee Swenson GordonISBN-10: 1617130419ISBN-13: 9781617130410Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2012Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Produce Your Own Sounds with GarageBand!Whether you want to record lyrics, an instrument, or a podcast, GarageBand can help you achieve ultimate sound perfection.GarageBand Basics is a beginner-friendly guide of all the basic knowledge you need to start using GarageBand.With mini tutorials on each...

Frederick Charles Judd (1914-1992) was a pioneer of British electronic music, composing and recording at his home studio. 'Electronic Music and Musique Concr te', originally published in 1961, was one of the earliest books to introduce to a popular audience a form of music...

Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and 'deranged essays', with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the texts in these pages, responding to encounters...

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise, maximize your good work, and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide, intertwining a broad...

Digital Performer for Engineers and Producers is designed to help people who already have some familiarity with Digital Performer - or any other DAW software - jump directly into some of the extremely important and powerful capabilities of this incredible software. Author and noted...

Electronic Dance Music Grooves provides creative insights to help you understand how to build exciting, powerful, and compelling EDM grooves. Whether you're into techno, trance, dubstep, drum 'n' bass, garage, trap, or hip-hop, author Ableton Live Certified Trainer, and noted EDM performer Josh Bess...

Learn to Produce EDM Like a Pro & Take Your Music To A Whole New Level Why do some producers make great music after just one year, while others still sound average?The answer? It's how they learn and practice. The most successful EDM producers...

Are you a home or project studio owner who would like to dramatically improve your mixes? Whether you're a newbie or a seasoned pro, you'll find a goldmine of information in this book. Let an experienced pro take you by the hand and guide...

In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records. By the time of his death in 1986, he had amassed an archive of over 2,200...

DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing & Scratching is the most comprehensive, up to date approach to DJing ever produced. With insights from top club, mobile, and scratch DJs, the book includes many teaching strategies developed in the Berklee College of Music prototype...

With nothing more than their love of melodic, guitar-driven, rock music and the will to be in a band, three friends from a small mid-western town in Illinois; John Murphy, Gary Klebe and Jeff Murphy started their band; SHOES before any of them even...

You'll never listen to music the same way again! Producer, audio engineer, and author Bobby Owsinski takes you behind-the-scenes of 20 of the most beloved classic rock hits of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Using a technique refined after years of listening to songs...

You'll never listen to music the same way again! Producer, audio engineer, and author Bobby Owsinski takes you behind-the-scenes of 20 of the biggest modern pop and hip-hop hits of the 21st century. Using a technique refined after years of listening to songs under...

You'll never listen to music the same way again! Producer, audio engineer, and author Bobby Owsinski takes you deep inside 20 of the biggest modern rock and country hits of the 21st century. Using a technique refined after years of listening to songs under...

A collection of little-known record facts for the record collector.Author: Raymond CozzenISBN-10: 1716601258ISBN-13: 9781716601255Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2020Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

Become a Competent Music Producer in 365 Days is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the fundamentals of music production. Over the course of a year, this book takes the reader through ten chapters covering mixing, equalization, compression, reverb, delay and modulation, automation, vocals, synthesis,...

Audio Production Tips: Getting the Sound Right at the Source provides practical and accessible information detailing the production processes for recording today's bands. By demonstrating how to "get the sound right at the source," author Peter Dowsett lays the appropriate framework to discuss the...

Designed for music technology students, enthusiasts, and professionals, Audio Processes: Musical Analysis, Modification, Synthesis, and Control describes the practical design of audio processes, with a step-by-step approach from basic concepts all the way to sophisticated effects and synthesizers. The themes of analysis, modification, synthesis,...

Access and interpret manufacturer spec information, find shortcuts for plotting measure and test equations, and learn how to begin your journey towards becoming a live sound professional. 　 Land and perform your first live sound gigs with this guide that gives you just the...

Author of bestselling "Behind the Beat," Raph Rashid drops a collection of photographs inside the home studios of prolific hip hop producers. Independent producers and DJs have been busy creating world class music in bedrooms, kitchens and garages for years. Meanwhile, photographer Rashid has...

Learn the basics of recording, processing, and mixing audio using Reason software, the robust digital audio workstation and musical toolkit used by artists, producers, and sound designers worldwide. Audio Production Basics with Reason Software will guide you every step of the way. The exercises...

Dance Music Manual, aimed at the novice and seasoned professional alike, takes the reader through the software and hardware needed to create original, captivating, and professional sounding music. Key features of Dance Music Manual include: How to create compelling, professional-sounding original or remixed dance...

Coproduction is dedicated specifically to the study of an emerging field in music production musicology. It explores the limits of what this field might be, from the workings of a few individuals producing music together in the studio, to vast contributions of whole societies...

There have been many books written on the subject of audio. Some have been written from an overtly technical perspective, focusing upon the physics of audio recording and reproduction. Some have focused purely upon acoustics. Yet more have been written to cover the use...

Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of what is perhaps the most controversial musical instrument ever invented: the drum machine. Here, author Dan LeRoy reveals the untold story of how their mechanical pulse became the new heartbeat of popular music. The...

Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of what is perhaps the most controversial musical instrument ever invented: the drum machine. Here, author Dan LeRoy reveals the untold story of how their mechanical pulse became the new heartbeat of popular music. The...

Aural Diversity addresses a fundamental methodological challenge in music and soundscape research by considering the nature of hearing as a spectrum of diverse experiences. Bringing together an interdisciplinary array of contributors from the arts, humanities, and sciences, it challenges the idea of a normative...

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co-author of Do What You Want and My Damage. Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa...

Compiled from industry leader EQ magazine, Console Confessions gathers first-person stories from the top names in music production. All aspects of recording are covered, from creative concepts to choosing equipment and on to project mastering. Celebrities from both in front of and behind the...

Kallie Marie offers a rare, candid, and insightful look at the perspectives of women in music production and audio engineering and how they navigate their industry.Author: Kallie MarieISBN-10: 1493065068ISBN-13: 9781493065066Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2022Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.07h x 6.00w x 0.71dReview Citation(s): Library...

Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. Bill Schnee takes the reader inside the studio--behind the curtain--and through...

(Berklee Guide). Learn the essential skills to enter the audio post-production industry. This book offers a broad coverage of audio post production, including the four basic elements: dialogue, music, sound effects, and Foley effects. You will learn strategies for working with composers, music supervisors,...

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music. Offering detailed descriptions, diagrams, and photographs of fundamental recording techniques such as the Decca tree, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the...

For more than 15 years, Confessions of a Record Producer has exposed the inner workings of the music business and empowered artists to protect their interests. With inside knowledge and hard numbers, Moses Avalon reveals the truth of how the industry functions (or dysfunctions),...

Raised in the cornfields of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Arthur Russell (1951-1992) would become a visionary cellist, singer, composer, and producer in Lower Manhattan's "Downtown" arts scene during the 1970s and 80s. Russell's enigmatic music blended and transcended genres as disparate as Indian raga, Americana folk,...

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)...