Practical Recording Techniques

Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett

560 pages, parution le 08/02/2002

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A step-by-step approach to professional audio recording
Covers the latest techniques for professional studio, home studio, and on-location
Learn how to make quality recordings with affordable home-studio equipment.

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. Contents

The Recording Chain
Equipping Your Studio
Sound, Signals, and Studio Acoustics
Monitoring
Hum Prevention
Microphones
Microphone-Technique Basics
Microphone Techniques
Analog Tape Recording
Digital Recording and Editing
Signal Processors and Effects
Recorder-Mixers and Mixing Consoles
Operating the Multitrack Recorder and Mixer
Session Procedures
Recording the Spoken Word
The MIDI Studio: Equipment and Procedures
On-Location Recording of Popular Music
On-Location Recording of Classical Music
Judging Sound Quality
Surround-Sound Techniques, DVD, and Super Audio CD
Audio for the Internet
Music: Why You Record

L'auteur - Bruce Bartlett

Bruce Bartlett is a microphone engineer, technical writer, audio journalist, and recording engineer. He has written more than 800 articles on audio topics for such magazines as Modern Recording, db, Recorting, EQ, Mix, Recording Engineer/Producer, Radio World, Pro Audio Review, Audio, Gig, and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. He has also written a number of boohs, including Stereo Microphone Techniques and On-Location Recording 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 24-track computer-based recording studio.

L'auteur - Jenny Bartlett

Jenny Bartlett is a freelance technical writer.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Focal Press
Auteur(s)	Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett
Parution	08/02/2002
Nb. de pages	560
Format	17,8 x 23,4
Couverture	Broché
Poids	946g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780240804736
ISBN13	978-0-240-80473-6