This is a hands-on practical guide covering all aspects of recording, ideal for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this book offers advice on equipping a home studio (both low-budget and advanced), suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also tells how to judge recordings and improve them to produce maximum results.New material covered in the 5th edition includes: complete revision and update of digital media sections; new section on mixing tips; new section on podcasts and file sharing; new section equipment and connector levels; new section function and connector types; new section on digital metering; new section exporting projects from other studios; and, new photos. This popular bestseller covers the latest digital techniques for professional and home studios, and location recording. Now, it features a dedicated website packed with audio clips to enhance the text. Now, it includes a brand new chapter on computer recording procedures.

Reviews

"This book is crammed full of everything you need to know to get started with professional recording...Overall this is a good general guide that could be useful to have on the shelf." - Future Music

"This book is indispensable." - Stills Audio Motion

"This book takes you through the basics very well and its real strong point is that it shares numerous nuggets gleaned from experience to do with all sorts of little things that become quite big things when you're faced with a problem." - www.mstation.org

"It is packed with well-illustrated graphics and pictures and gives extensive guidance on everything from studio and location recording techniques through to publishing your sounds on the web."
James Eade, Lighting and Sound International