Music - Recording & Reproduction

What is the difference between an echo and a reverberation? How do you calculate the most resonant note to whistle in a toilet? Where do you best place microphones for that perfect recording? In this fascinating little book, musician Steve Marshall explores the subject...

Written for both majors and non-majors, this textbook provides a clear overview of essential topics in music technology. It introduces fundamental principles and practices so students can learn to work with a wide range of software programs, adapt to new music technologies, and apply...

Raised in the cornfields of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Arthur Russell (1951-1992) would become a visionary cellist, singer, composer, and producer in Lower Manhattan's "Downtown" arts scene during the 1970s and 80s. Russell's enigmatic music blended and transcended genres as disparate as Indian raga, Americana folk,...

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co-author of Do What You Want and My Damage. Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa...

(Music Sales America). Written in simple language, with hundreds of clear illustrations, this guide gives you step-by-step instructions on how to bild pre-amps, tone controls, ring modulators, mixers, and many other inexpensive electronic accessories. Also includes access to free audio demonstrations of electronic effects....

Released in 1970, Workingman's Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late '60s. It was the band's most commercially and critically successful release to date. More importantly, these songs established the blueprint...

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities.This entertaining book...

"I wish I had this book when I started producing, it provides a great insight into the fundamentals of sound design and beyond." - Seven (Uprise Audio)Synthesizers can be challenging.If you're struggling to recreate a sound you've heard, or you wish to step beyond...

Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first commercial LP with this authoritative, highly illustrated, and multi-faceted look at the history and culture of vinyl record collecting and turntables. Vinyl records continue to be hot commodities among everyone from obsessive audiophiles to newbie collectors getting...

No one was closer to Michael Jackson at the height of his creative powers than Bruce Swedien, the five-time Grammy winner who, with Jackson and producer Quincy Jones, formed the trio responsible for the sound of Jackson's records - records that topped the charts...

Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bloops-the sterile products of a lab environment-replacing it with one in which game sounds constituted a legitimate form...

THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS with people who have made records with some of the biggest names in music. Along the way, they might be engineering the recordings, picking the songs, guiding the singers, picking the best takes of songs, balancing egos,...

Make emotionally impactful, professional-quality music that connects-with proven strategies from Mixerman, a highly regarded music producer and mixer with multiple gold and platinum credits. This no-BS book offers his unvarnished perspective and explains how to make great music-technically, emotionally, and politically.This book sets you...

After six decades in the music business, I wanted to share some behind-the-scenes stories of success and failure, and the reasons for both in the music business. These include some of your favorite artists and some you may never have heard of, for good...

Create the next big pop hit, bang out a catchy jingle, or write an iconic film score, with music composition skills Today's composers create music for television, film, commercials, and even video games. Music Composition For Dummies brings you up to speed with the...

Featuring interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illegality a point of pride. In Plunderphonics, Matthew Blackwell tells the story of a group...

Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques dares you to "unlearn" safe record-making, to get out from behind the windshield, stick your head out the sunroof, and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers,...

In Shaping Sounds, visionary music producer Robert Margouleff shares his stories of pushing the boundaries of musical innovation, art, and technology while helping create some of the most significant and influential music of our time. Beginning on the set of his first film, Ciao!...

(Yamaha Products). Sound reinforcement is the use of audio amplification systems. This book is the first and only book of its kind to cover all aspects of designing and using such systems for public address and musical performance. The book features information on both...

The 2nd Edition of the #1 Amazon Best-Seller For Musicians and Engineers Looking to Skyrocket Their Mixing Skills...Learn a Proven Step By Step Mixing Process That's Helped Thousands of Musicians Like Yourself Make Amazing Mixes in Their Home Studio, Using Only EQ, Compression, Reverb,...