General Recording Books, Videos, and CD-ROMs
The Musician's Home Recording Handbook |
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This is the ideal handbook for musicians who want to make high-quality recordings at home. The author's basic philosophy is that musicianship, not equipment, is the essential ingredient in a great recording. With skill, creativity, and a can-do attitude, anyone can produce CD-quality recorded music at home with a minimum of technology and training. The book makes general, practical musical sense of the complex technology of home recording. It will prove useful to those just getting started in home recording, to those trying to fill in holes in their recording background, and to musicians who would just like to understand more clearly what goes on in the studio. The book is based on a popular series of columns in Guitar Player magazine. CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Home Recording Magazine's 100 Recording Tips and Tricks Video |
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Ever wondered how to get the same sound on your home studio projects that the pros get on your favorite CDs? Agonized over the right guitar sound? Pondered the perfect mic placement? CLICK HERE TO BUY |
101 Recording Tips Book and CD |
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This book contains tips, suggestions, advice, and other useful information garnered through a lifetime of home and pro studio recording adventures. Included in the book are dozens of entries learned firsthand from legendary producers, engineers, and artists such as Tom Dowd, Phil Ramone, Pete Anderson, Dick Shurman, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Desmond Child, and many more. It's an essential collection of tricks of the trade that will improve anyone's home or pro studio recordings. The accompanying CD includes nearly one hour of audio demonstrations. CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Modular Digital Multitracks Book |
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George Petersen has revised and expanded this great tool for hobbyists and professionals alike. Designed to help recording artists get maximum results from a minimal amount of gear, industry expert Petersen offers evaluations and tips on using recording equipment as well as trouble shooting guides. CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Guerrilla Home Recording Book |
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Make your small home studio sound huge! Guerrilla Home Recording is a revolutionary approach to getting great sound in a home or project studio. CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Practical Recording Techniques Book |
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This hands-on practical guide is useful for all aspects of recording, and is ideal for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and short cuts, this book offers advice on equipping a home studio (both low-budget and advanced) with suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. CLICK HERE TO BUY |
JBL Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcement Book |
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The JBL Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcemnt book features lots of in depth live sound information in an easy to read format. This up-to-date book comprehensively covers all aspects of speech and music sound reinforcement. It is roughly divided into 4 sections. CLICK HERE TO BUY |
The Indie Bible Book |
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The Basics of Home Recording Volume 1 Getting Started Video |
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Getting Started - Vol. I - Learn how to: Set up and work a multi-track studio; mic drums, bass guitar and vocals; turn a closet into an isolation booth; operate a mixing board, and more! CLICK HERE TO BUY |
The Basics of Home Recording Volume II MIDI Made Easy Video |
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MIDI Made Easy - Vol. II - Learn how to: Use controllers, sequencers and sound modules; hook up Midi gear; sequence a song; use a sampler, and more! CLICK HERE TO BUY |
The Basics of Home Recording Volume III Sound Improvements Video |
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Sound Improvements Vol. III -- Learn how to: Add channels to your current mixer, use compressors and gates, hook up and operate effect units (reverbs, echos, flanges and harmonizers), and more! CLICK HERE TO BUY |
The Basics of Home Recording Volume IV Complete Guide To Mixing Video |
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Complete Guide to Mixing Vol. IV -- Learn how to: Add "pump" to your mix; add clarity; make effects (reverbs/delays etc.) sound natural; create a mix that sounds good on any system, and more! CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Secrets of the Pros The Basics of Modern Recording & Mixing Video |
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You don't need a lot of money to create professional recordings, but you do need the expertise. Secrets of the Pros will speed you through years of trial and error so you can focus on creating music instead of spending all your time trying to figure out the best way to make the gear work. CLICK HERE TO BUY |
Universal Audio Studio on Screen Volume 1 Video |
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The UA Studio Onscreen DVD Volume 1 gives the novice to intermediate audio engineer a view into the entire process of creating, recording, and mastering a song. We follow the artists from a project studio preproduction session, into a professional studio recording session, then finally to mastering. In this video, miking techniques are demonstrated utilizing Universal Audio's tube and solid-state analog hardware. Mixing and mastering techniques are demonstrated with the UAD-1 DSP card and vintage analog emulation plug-ins. Together with Steinberg's Cubase line of software recording and mixing tools, you'll see how UA products can inject old world analog tone into your DAW recordings. CLICK HERE TO BUY |