Recording Reproduction category: 214 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the nature of musical listening. The new media have changed our relationship with music in a myriad of ways, not least because the experience of listening can now be prolonged at will and repeated at any time and in any space. Moreover,...
Here, There and Everywhere
My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006
Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand, the...
Sound Man
A Life Recording Hits with The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles , Eric Clapton, The Faces . . .
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was sixteen years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band’s debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business: Abbey Road with the...
Making Records
The Scenes Behind the Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Sinatra. Streisand. Dylan. Pavarotti. McCartney. Sting. Madonna. What do these musicians have in common besides their super-stardom? They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone.
For almost five decades, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. He has produced records...
The Art of Music Production
The Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Art of Music Production is the first book to comprehensively analyze and describe the role of the music producer in creating successful music recordings. Now in its fourth edition, it is the definitive guide to the art and business of music production. Author and producer Richard James Burgess...
by Mixerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
“Without belaboring the technical, he encompasses the creative, spiritual, practical, and business aspects in a simple and entertaining read.” – Ron Saint Germain (U2, Mick Jagger, 311, Whitney Houston)
Logic Pro X
Audio and Music Production
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
From initial demos to mixing and mastering, seasoned authors Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer show you how to get the most from Logic Pro X. By exploring the essential workflow and the creative possibilities offered by Logic’s virtual instruments and effects, Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production...
by Bobby Owsinski
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Mixing music—the process of combining and shaping the component parts of a song into a polished, completed recording—was once considered an unteachable art. The first edition of Bobby Owsinski’s The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook destroyed that myth forever, breaking the craft of mixing down into...
by Paul White
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
No matter how talented a performer you are, if the sound out front isn't up to scratch, you won't win over your audience. Even relatively inexpensive equipment can produce exceptionally good results - if only you know how to use it...Sound Check For The Performing Musician is a practical guide to...
Music Production
For Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
The guidance of a skilled music producer will always be a key factor in producing a great recording. In that sense, as Michael Zager points out in his second edition of Music Production: For Producers, Composer, Arrangers, and Students, the job of a music producer is analogous to that of a film director,...
Perfecting Sound Forever
An Aural History of Recorded Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed...
by Richard Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record is the first in-depth study of the vinyl record. Richard Osborne traces the evolution of the recording format from its roots in the first sound recording experiments to its survival in the world of digital technologies. This book addresses the record's relationship...
Representing Sound
Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The first title in our Laurier Digital Imprint.
Representing Sound elucidates the base technical ontology, the machine essence, of every recorded musical communication. In so doing, it suggests the broad contours of an unprecedented theoretical basis for considering recording practice that...
by Paul White
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
In music recording, the quality of a mix is every bit as important as the quality of the performance, and potential hit singles have been ruined by poor mixing. Basic Mixing Techniques blows the lid off the secrets of mixing and explains in easy and illustrated terms how you can create a professional-quality recording with even the most basic equipment.