Books on Recording
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Books on Recording
I want to get a good, easy to read book about home studio recording. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I bought Mixing with Your Mind by Michael Starvou. It was expensive and I had to order it from Australia. Theres alot of good stuff in there but theres also, for me at least, alot of very impractical stuff. At one point he suggests having an assistant walk around the room with a monitor tied to a string to find where it sounds best on the room...um, not gonna happen. There all this stuff about using a "pink noise" generator..again, not happening in my bedroom. I guess the book is more for pro studios maybe.
so um, that doesnt offer a good suggestion as to what to get, but maybe eliminates one possible choice. i dont wanna slag the book, its good and all, just not geared towards the home recordist.
the tapeOp book is pretty cool.
Im interested to hear other peoples suggestions as well.
so um, that doesnt offer a good suggestion as to what to get, but maybe eliminates one possible choice. i dont wanna slag the book, its good and all, just not geared towards the home recordist.
the tapeOp book is pretty cool.
Im interested to hear other peoples suggestions as well.
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+1 for Katz's Mastering Audio...
apropos of nothing wrote:Katz' "Mastering Audio" is the only book I've ever read about the particulars of digital audio that was worth a damn.
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+2 for Katz. Helped me out quite a bit. The Recording Techniques threads are great for all kinds of info and its free. Thanks guys
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I don't think there is one magic book on how to record. All of them will have some good stuff, and some useless stuff, and everyone will disagree about which is which.
Pick up a couple, read them, fill your mind.
But above all, start recording. Find out what works for you and what doesn't. No matter how much you read, you WILL make mistakes. Learn from those, and keep improving.
That said I found the above books good (Katz and Owsinski).
I also like the following webpages:
http://www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com/directory.htm
http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html
http://badmuckingfastard.com/sound/slipperman.html
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/articles.asp
http://www.wikirecording.org/
http://www.danalexanderaudio.com/glynjohns.htm
http://www.audiomelody.com/1/articles/h ... om_scratch
http://home.earthlink.net/~prof.sound/
Pick up a couple, read them, fill your mind.
But above all, start recording. Find out what works for you and what doesn't. No matter how much you read, you WILL make mistakes. Learn from those, and keep improving.
That said I found the above books good (Katz and Owsinski).
I also like the following webpages:
http://www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com/directory.htm
http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html
http://badmuckingfastard.com/sound/slipperman.html
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/articles.asp
http://www.wikirecording.org/
http://www.danalexanderaudio.com/glynjohns.htm
http://www.audiomelody.com/1/articles/h ... om_scratch
http://home.earthlink.net/~prof.sound/
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