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Musician's Home Recording Handbook
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. The book is based on a popular series of columns in Guitar Player magazine.
Mixing in Pro Tools Skill Pack (Book and DVD)
Learn how to use Pro Tools, a popular music recording and mixing software, for editing. This unique book and DVD combination allows the reader to truly focus in on the specific skill they want to learn. With the Mixing in Pro Tools: Skill Pack, the reader will learn a specific software skill and complete a project with step-by-step instructions from a pro, using the author's source files on the accompanying DVD. The Skill Pack format allows the reader to hone a specific skill within an application, along with the author's guidance, instead of having to sift through the pages of a comprehensive text on the application.
Confessions of a Record Producer
It's been 10 years since Confessions of a Record Producer published real-life numbers showing what artists made on so-called hit records and how producers, labels, managers, and even the artist's own lawyers conspire to cheat them out of royalties. It's the only publication that tells the real story of how artists get ripped off and how they can protect their assets. In a special 10th Anniversary Edition, author Moses Avalon, one of the industry's most sought-after consultants and artist's rights gurus, has updates on all of the old shams and many new ones created by the internet and the ongoing transformation of the music industry. Detailed numbers on how new royalties from digital downloads are calculated, collected, and manipulated. Deep inside the new so-called 360 Deals offered by the major labels. Plus a DVD-ROM containing private lessons from Avalon's Workshop. Groundbreaking charts and graphs show industry consolidation, who owns what, and where the future of the music business is headed
Gotta Get Signed: How To Become A Hip-Hop Producer
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, and promote your music. He also reveals invaluable information about how advance-against-royalty deals work. The book closes with a thorough discussion of music publishing and an exhaustive resource section
Equalizers, Reverbs and Delays Instant Pro Series Book and CD
If you want to produce recordings that sound impressive and musical, you need this book and CD! They're filled with techniques and examples designed to help your mixes come alive. You'll soon understand how the controls on your equalizers and effects processors really work. Follow step-by-step equalization guidelines for recording and mixing guitars, bass, drums, keys, vocals and other popular instruments. Learn how to use reverbs and delays to set your music in a controlled, blended and dimensional space. Discover how to craft and shape each sound, creating a complete, perfect mix.
The Future of the Music Business Book & CD-ROM
New technologies are revolutionizing the music business. While these changes may be smashing traditional business models, eroding CD sales, and creating havoc among the major record companies, they are also providing new opportunities for unsigned artists, independent labels, and music entrepreneurs. This book provides a legal and business roadmap as well as practical tips for people looking to sell music online develop an online record company create an Internet radio station open an online music store use peer-to-peer networks to promote and sell music take advantage of wireless technologies and much more. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a two-hour seminar, additional interviews, and hundreds of active links to legal, business, and technical resources, plus links to web pages updating the book so it will never be out of date.
Music Supervision
Music supervision, or matching music to TV, live events, film, video games, ring tones, and a host of other media, is one of the fastest-growing careers in the music industry. But finding the winning song for a national ad campaign or compiling a platinum movie soundtrack takes more than just good taste: music supervision today requires serious multitasking and the ability to navigate licensing, relationships, and cultural trends with ease. This book guides you through real-world scenarios and legal landmines, explores sound design, profiles key players with insightful interviews, and provides project form templates that will save time for seasoned music supervisors. Composers, bands, DJs and producers also get valuable tips for connecting with music supervisors, who are being called "The New A&R". For those who want to break into the field of music supervision, this book tells you how to get the job. Authors Ramsay Adams and David Hnatiuk teach music supervision at New York University, and offer a variety of one-day seminars throughout the year. This is the only guide to the career of music supervision and is ideal for the music student, musician, and industry executive. Written by a trio of industry movers and shakers: Ramsay Adams is music director and producer for Fox News; David Hnatiuk is music supervisor for MTV; and David Weiss is contributing editor to Mix magazine. Adams and Hnatiuk teach music supervision at New York University, and offer a variety of one-day seminars throughout the year. Weiss is the owner of Meet Your Beat drum loop library and writes for a variety of magazines including Audio Media, Pro Sound News, Remix, Drum!, and Time Out New York.
The Hal Leonard Recording Method- Book Two:Instrument & Vocal Recording (Book and DVD)
Once you understand how microphones and mixers work, you'll move into recording vocals and instruments for your audio productions. With detailed illustrations, photographs, plus dozens of video and audio examples, you'll learn everything you need to know about capturing the best vocal and instrument tracks possible, no matter what kind of studio you are working in or what kind of equipment is used.
Recording Engineer's Handbook
The third title in the series from author Bobby Owsinski takes you into the tracking process for all manner of instruments and vocals. Learn the tricks the professionals use to record exceptional audio tracks for hit records and learn directly from these award-winning engineers and producers as they reveal how they make their hits in the studio.
Live Sound Reinforcement
This reprint of this classic textbook is from MixBooks. Its simple language, detailed illustrations and concrete examples convey the fundamentals of sound reinforcement theory in an intelligent and intelligible manner, making it an invaluable resource for aspiring live sound technicians and musicians alike. Written for novice to intermediate-level users, it outlines all aspects of P.A. system operation and commonly encountered sound system design concerns, with in-depth discussions of microphones, speaker systems, equalizers, mixers, signal processors, crossovers, amplifiers, system wiring and interfaces, indoor and outdoor sound considerations and psychoacoustics.
Music for New Media (Book and CD)
Videogames, web sites, and other new media are creating more opportunities for contemporary music writers than have ever existed before. In this book, you will learn to write effectively for these new forms, mastering the devices, sounds, and techniques for supporting stories and responding to user actions. It details the technical and dramatic requirements necessary for each type of new media. In engaging language, illustrated by countless real-world examples and practical workshops, writers at all levels will find ways to create music for new markets, and find new opportunities for creative expression. Guided hands-on projects will help you create music in all these forms. A CD of examples and practice files illustrates all concepts and lets you practice the techniques.Readers will learn to: Score videogames, developing music for different characters, addressing the standard types of scenes and cues, and the formats required by game publishers Develop music for web sites, including HTML and Flash code Use sound technologies within mobile devices to create distinctive ringtones and other sounds Create demos and portfolios for getting clients.
Professional Microphone Techniques Book and CD
Here is the ultimate guide to microphone placement, applications and techniques by one of the authors of the industry bestseller Modern Recording Techniques. This book focuses intensely on microphone usage for dozens of different instruments as well as vocals, amplifiers, Leslie cabinets and more! Accompanied by an audio CD that allows you to hear the different effects of microphone placement techniques in real time for a full understanding of how to get the best recordings from any type of microphone.
Yamaha Sound Reinforcement
Sound reinforcement is the use of audio amplification systems. This book is the first and only book of its kind to cover all aspects of designing and using such systems for public address and musical performance. The book features information on both the audio theory involved and the practical applications of that theory, explaining everything from microphones to loudspeakers. This revised edition features almost 40 new pages and is even easier to follow with the addition of an index and a simplified page and chapter numbering system. New topics covered include: MIDI, Synchronization, and an Appendix on Logarithms.
Crash Course MIDI
This easy-to-follow text will take the mystery of MIDI so you'll be able to get the most out of your rig.
Home Recording Tips and Tricks - Strategies and Solutions for Your Home Studio
108 pointers, hints and just plain good advice culled from the pages of Home Recording magazine. Here, you'll find pages of professional secrets on studio setup and organization, gear care, computer issues, recording, effects and mixing. Topics include: homemade cable ties use an aux track to control levels create a live feel the P.A. way make your own drum booth fix bleed on drum tracks panning stereo tremolo sink sync problems fatten those rhythm guitars and more.
Acoustic Design for the Home Studio
One vital topic most home and project recording enthusiasts ignore in their studios is acoustics, to their detriment, neglecting acoustics prevents musicians from recording the best sound possible. Improving a studio's acoustics can be simple and inexpensive all you need is some guidance. Acoustics for the Home and Project Studio focuses on creating a great-sounding home or project studio in an existing room, without construction. Solutions are provided for all budgets, from non-existent to high-end. Thirteen example studios are provided, with diagrams, and photos of actual rooms created with the designs.
