Bartlett Practical Recording Techniques

The Step- by- Step Approach to Professional Audio Recording
7. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-44561-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 538 Seiten

Practical Recording Techniques covers all aspects of recording, perfect for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, it is a hands-on, practical guide gives advice on equipping a home studio (whether low-budget or advanced), suggestions for set-up, acoustics, effects, choosing mics and monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also instructs how to mike instruments and vocals, judge recordings and improve them, work with MIDI and loops, do mastering, and put your music on the web.

The seventh edition covers all aspects of recording, perfect for beginning and intermediate students, recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts and features updated coverage of recording equipment, software, recording techniques, and website links. The revision also features expanded sections on iOS recording systems and digital console recording facilities.

New in the seventh edition:

- Complete update of all types of recording equipment, plug-ins, and recording software

- New chapters on DAW signal flow, psychoacoustics, and DAW operation during recording and mixdown

- Updated tips on optimizing your computer for multitrack recording – for both Windows and Mac

- New sections on streaming audio, mobile-device recording, and live recording with digital consoles

- Updated companion website with audio examples and suggested activities, plus dozens of links to the best sites for videos, recording techniques, and equipment

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartlett, Bruce

Bartlett, Jenny

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Akustik, Tontechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER 1: A Basic Overview of the Recording Process

CHAPTER 2: Sound and Psychoacoustics

CHAPTER 3: Studio Acoustics

CHAPTER 4: Signal Characteristics of Audio Devices

CHAPTER 5: Equipping Your Studio

CHAPTER 6: Monitoring

CHAPTER 7: Microphones

CHAPTER 8: Microphone Technique Basics

CHAPTER 9: Microphone Techniques for Instruments and Vocals

CHAPTER 10: EQ

CHAPTER 11: Effects and Signal Processors

CHAPTER 12: Judging Sound Quality with Critical Listening

CHAPTER 13: Digital Audio

CHAPTER 14: Computer Recording

CHAPTER 15: DAW Signal Flow

CHAPTER 16: DAW Operation

CHAPTER 17: MIDI and Loops

CHAPTER 18: Session Procedures

CHAPTER 19: Mastering and CD Burning

CHAPTER 20: On-Location Recording of Popular Music

CHAPTER 21: On-Location Recording of Classical Music

CHAPTER 22: Web Audio, Streaming, and Online Collaboration

APPENDIX A: dB or Not dB

APPENDIX B: Optimizing Your Computer for Multitrack Recording

APPENDIX C: Impedance

APPENDIX D: Phantom Power Explained

APPENDIX E: Where To Learn More

APPENDIX F: Legacy Recording Devices

AUDIO GLOSSARY

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Bartlett has been a recording engineer, audio journalist, and microphone engineer (www.bartlettaudio.com) for over 30 years. He has written more than 1,000 articles on audio topics for magazines and websites including ProSoundWeb, Live Sound International, L2Pnet, Recording, and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, as well as 9 books, including Recording Music on Location 2nd edition (Focal Press). A member of the Audio Engineering Society and SynAudCon, he holds a degree in physics and several patents on microphone design. He is also a musician and runs a commercial computer-based recording studio.

Jenny Bartlett is a freelance technical writer.