Practical Recording Techniques - Couverture souple

Bartlett, Bruce; Bartlett, Jenny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0240804732 ISBN 13 : 9780240804736

Editeur : Focal Press, 2002

Synopsis

Practical Recording Techniques, Third Edition is a hands-on, practical guide for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts, offering guidance on a variety of recording situations, including small professional studios and on-location recording for both popular and classical music. It gives advice on equipping a home studio-from low-budget to advanced-and includes suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. Practical Recording Techniques also explains how to judge recordings and use the equipment available to improve them. Filled with tips and shortcuts, Practical Recording Techniques covers situations and topics not covered in similar texts, including documenting the session, recording spoken word, troubleshooting bad sound, and more. New to this edition are chapters on surround sound techniques, impedance, and audio for the Internet, as well as expanded information on digital recording and MIDI sequencing, and new information on automated mixing.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Practical Recording Techniques, Second Edition is a hands-on, practical guide for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts. The book prepares the reader for work in a home studio, a small professional studio, or an on-location recording session.

The book offers up-to-date information on the latest recording technology, such as digital tape recording and computer workstations. The book prepares the reader for work in a home studio, a small professional studio, or an on-location recording session.rding, hard-disk recording, keyboard and digital workstations, SMPTE, and MIDI. It also guides the beginner through the basics, showing how to make quality recordings with the new breed of inexpensive home-studio equipment.

Other topics include:
· choosing and operating recorder-mixers based on cassette, Mini-Disc, and hard-disk;
· hum prevention;
· the latest monitoring methods;
· microphone selection and placement;
· audio-for-video techniques;
· troubleshooting bad sound; guidelines for good sound.
With its step-by-step approach and easy-to-read format, this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to create professional sounding recordings.

Bruce Bartlett is a microphone engineer, audio journalist, and recording engineer. He has written over 600 articles on audio topics for such magazines as Modern Recording, db, Recording, EQ, Mix, Recording Engineer/Producer, Radio World, Pro Audio Review, Audio, and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. He has also written a number of books including Stereo Microphone Techniques (Focal Press).
A member of the Audio Engineering Society and Syn Aud Con, he holds a degree in physics and several patents on microphone design. He is also a musician and runs a 16-track digital studio specializing in live recording.
Jenny Bartlett is a freelance technical writer who specializes in audio and computer software.

Revue de presse

"This book is crammed full of everything you need to know to get started with professional recording...Overall this is a good general guide that could be useful to have on the shelf." - Future Music

"This book is indispensable." - Stills Audio Motion

"This book takes you through the basics very well and its real strong point is that it shares numerous nuggets gleaned from experience to do with all sorts of little things that become quite big things when you're faced with a problem." - www.mstation.org

"It is packed with well-illustrated graphics and pictures and gives extensive guidance on everything from studio and location recording techniques through to publishing your sounds on the web."
James Eade, Lighting and Sound International

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Focal Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0240804732
• ISBN 13: 9780240804736
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible