- ISBN13: 9780876390481
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Product Description
With the explosion of project studio gear available, it’s easier than ever to create pro-quality music at home. This book is the only reference you’ll ever need to start producing and engineering your music or other artists’ music in your very own home studio. You don’t have a home studio yet, but have some basic equipment? This essential guide will help you set up your studio, begin producing projects, develop your engineering skills and manage your projects. Stop … More >>
Recording and Producing in the Home Studio: A Complete Guide, Includes Pro Tools Hints and Tips
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#1 by David R. Moran on April 20, 2010 - 1:48 am
I have not read the book in full, but have heard the author wrote “Analog recordings are technically more accurate than digital recordings, because analog recordings capture continuous waveforms, whereas digital recordings only capture discrete samples of the waveform.”
This could not be more wrong, and, although a common and pernicious fallacy, shows the most profound misunderstanding of digital recording (which IS continuous) and analog recording.
The problem is, if this guy (associated with Berklee!) can write ignorant stuff like that, he’s capable of writing other misleading bunk about pro and semi-pro audio. And probably to be paid attention to only very carefully, indeed suspiciously.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Steven C. Ainsworth on April 20, 2010 - 3:27 am
Mr. Moran, I don’t usually take the time to write reviews but in this case I have to repond to your ridiculous and completely inaccurate comments in your 3-star review. Digital audio is NOT continuous, never has been and positively never will be. It simply is NOT possible to perfectly reproduce a continous analog sound wave with a rapid series of ones and zeros — which is what digital audio (or digital anything, for that matter) is. With digital you can get close enough to fool the non-discerning listener. 96khz and beyond is an awful lot of samples per second; but no matter how you finely you slice it, they’re still discrete samples and are in no way, shape or form continuous.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Elijah J. Leclair on April 20, 2010 - 4:01 am
This book is a good guide for any musician/producer wannabe that wants to make music in a logical fashion. I wish more of the book was dedicated to the actual recording part of the process, however.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Timothy L. Brinkley on April 20, 2010 - 4:08 am
This book is dead on and very informative, no matter if you’ve been at for years or just starting out. It’s not only a “how to” but a very good “why is that?” type of read. You learn how to do what you need to do with your music and why it is done certain ways. So if you need to sharpen up the skills or pickup some to start with this is a good choice.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Mr. Robert L. King on April 20, 2010 - 5:50 am
While the author strives to pass along as much information as possible, it is clear from the beginning that his focus is on specific tools and methods. Nothing wrong with that but, for those seeking a more general treatise on setting up and using a home studio, this book falls short.
There is a great deal of important and useful information in the book however so, if you’re of a technical mind this might be precisely the right choice for you. I found it dry and learned nothing I hadn’t already gleened from other books and personal experience.
Rating: 3 / 5