Home recording has never before seen the popularity it's experiencing today. Whether it's simply a laptop with a camera microphone or a decked-out studio with tens of thousands of dollars in equipment more people are recording their music at home now than at any other time in history. What's even more impressive are the sounds that can be accomplished with affordable gear. The gap between the capabilities of the professional and home studio is diminishing more every year which makes this a great time to be in the home recording business. In How To Record At Home On A Budget we'll look closely at all aspects involved in getting qualityrecordings from your modest home studio rig. The technological revolution has made high-grade production from home more attainable than ever but the instruments won't record themselves. There's still lots of know-how involved and that's where this book comes in. If you're willing to put in a bit of effort to learn the tools of the trade great sounds await!

How to Get Great Sound from Any Studio (No Matter How Weird or Cheap Your Gear Is) 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 and virtual consoles and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since many true ?Guerrillas? still record to analogue tape we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording's reputation as the most readable user-friendly recording title on the market.

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 ƂĀ· room environments ƂĀ· interfaces ƂĀ· microphone types and techniques ƂĀ· recording drums guitar bass piano vocals and electronic instrumetns ƂĀ· studio recording effects ƂĀ· and more.

Techniques-In Al Schmitt on Vocal and Instrumental Recording Techniques legendary producer and engineer Al Schmitt takes us into the studio and shares his process of selecting a microphone and shows us how to get the best sounds. Considerations such as song style instrumentation and the recording space itself are taken into account when making mic choices and determining the best placement for each. Schmitt demonstrates how to achieve the best sounds for a number of instruments - including drums bass piano guitars (both acoustic and electric) organs and horns - across many genres of music. Drawing on decades of experience in the studio Schmitt brings a unique and invaluableperspective to not only making mic choices and their placement but also the importance of interacting with musicians - taking their vision and preferences into account to create the most comfortable and effective recording experience for all involved. Also featured in Vocal and Instrumental Recording Techniques is an interview of Schmitt conducted by fellow METAlliance producer and engineer Ed Cherney.

An enlightening guide to recording studio techniques and practices this book collects ten years of interviews and articles edited by Keith Hatschek for the authoritative quarterly Pro Studio Edition. The book provides tipsand insider information on all facets of the recording process from studio acoustics mixing and microphones to digital recording vintage equipment and working with bands. Notable engineers and producers from a wide array ofbackgrounds share the tricks of the trade including Joe Barresi (Melvins Bad Religion) Mitch Easter (REM Suzanne Vega) Richard Dodd (Wilco Green Day) and Ed Cherney (Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Eric Clapton).

The definitive book on understanding, and using, today's recording technology. Whether amateur or professional, you will find that this book is packed with useful tips on every aspect of recording, from the initial purchase of your gear to mixing and assembling a master tape or CD.

Hard Disk Recording for Musicians. A complete, up-to-the-minute guide to the equipment, techniques, and processes of digital audio. Covers computer-based sound editing, digital signal processing, real-world applications, and sampling.

Ever since his father gave him a disc recorder at the tender age of 10 Bruce Swedien has known what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.The names of the people he has worked with are too many to list but when one mentions musicians like Count Basie Duke Ellington Oscar Peterson Sarah Vaughan Eddie Harris Quincy Jones Jennifer Lopez and even Michael Jackson a great deal is immediately understood.In this book Swedien generously gives away detailed information from his lifetime in the studio - from a musical technical and very personal perspective.This book has something for everyone who is interested in music especially those curiousabout the stories behind the scenes of some of the best music to ever come out of the recording studio.

Peter Maxwell Davies. Cinderella is a light-hearted pantomime opera based on the traditional story with a few new twists by the composer. The first performances of Ć¢Ā€Ā˜CinderellaĆ¢Ā€Ā™ were given by children in Kirkwall in the OrkneyIslands who were non-specialist and had shown no unusual interest in or aptitude for music. All vocal parts are written within the range of childrenĆ¢Ā€Ā™s normal unbroken voices although the three Ugly Sisters can be played by olderboys singing an octave lower than written. Eleven solo parts plus chorus and parts for descant treble and tenor recorders trumpet percussion piano and string quintet with optional viola. 60 mins.

Getting the Most Out of Your Project or Professional Recording Studio-Understanding Audio explores the fundamentals of audio and acoustics that impact every stage of the music recording process. Whether you are a musician setting up your first Pro Tools project studio or you are a seasoned recording engineer or producer eager to find a reference that fills in the gaps in your understanding of audio this book is for you. Understanding Audio will enable you to develop a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of sound and take some of the mystery and guesswork out of how equipment setup affects the quality of your recordings. Projects at the end of each chapter will assist you in applying these principles to your ownrecording environment. Learn about: - Basic and advanced audio theory - Cables and studio wiring - Recording studio and console signal flow - Digital and analog audio - Studio and listening room acoustics - Psychoacoustics - In the Studio insights relating audio principles to real recording situations.

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