Can anyone suggest a good book on basic recording techni

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 7:30 am

Hello again,
Rather than bothering you guys and clogging your forum with basic questions, perhaps you guys can point me to a good basics book? I've seen a couple, but I don't know which are good, and which aren't worth the paper they are printed on... Or are books even the way to go? (If not, then how else can I learn the basics?) :confused:

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 10:54 am

For books, Practical Recording Techniques by Bruce and Jenny Bartlett isn't a bad start. Also, read the forums (archives can be your friend on some questions), hang out in studios when you can, and just try things with any gear you already have. And ask anything you can't find an answer to, or anything when you doubt the answer you've been given.Bear

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2001 2:09 pm

Cool, thanks Bear.Vlad

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2001 12:35 pm

Hi Vlad,Modern Recording Techniques is quite OK. Good overview of everything.Cheers,Matthias

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2001 8:41 pm

Check out Sound On Sound online at http://www.sospubs.co.ukThe editor Paul White has written many excellent recording books such "Recording and Production Techniques" and "MIDI for the Technophobe" which are both easy to read and very informative. The site has a searchable index of past issues and SOS is going for a long time now......
Sean McC

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2001 9:32 pm

Please do go ahead and clog this forum with basic questions... that's what it's here for! Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2001 6:47 am

"Please do go ahead and clog this forum with basic questions... that's what it's here for!" ---AngOk then, Why don't chickens have lips?
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2001 10:52 am

So they don't have to wear chicken lip stick! bwaahaha.. ok, on yer bike son. :p

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2001 9:00 am

There are a lot of good books on recording techniques out there. Craig Anderton has several books and articles that are really helpful. However, the best way to learn is to try. There is no substitute for practicing your craft and trying new things. I learned a lot 25 years ago while trying to get a professional sounding recording with a cassette deck in my unfinished basement. Hey, my first PA system consisted of a Radio Shack battery powered four channel (volume only) mic mixer run into a Sears Silvertone guitar amp. We must have played fifty gigs with that setup. My first recording was in 1965 with a Wollensack mono tape deck with a mic placed in the middle of the room. I still have that recording and it wasn't bad. Practice using what you got..

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2002 8:34 pm

Recording Magazine has a lot of cool tips and product reviews. I read it cover to cover as soon as it comes in the mail.

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 12:11 am

As a musician learning about engineering, I found the book by Peter McIan and Larry Wichman to be very useful, straightforward and practical. I don't remember the exact name, but I saw it today at Barnes and Noble, just reissued. To my knowledge it's the only book the two of them have written together. It's a large size paperback with a picture of Peter Gabriel on the cover (it looked like him, anyway).

I found it extremely helpful.

Good Luck,

TC

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 7:51 am

Not sure if this is what you mean but the book by McIan and Wichman that I'm familiar with is "The Musician's Guide to Home Recording". The cover of my paperback, a Fireside book published by Simon & Schuster in 1988, features some no-name wannabe at his mixer in his basement holding a guitar and pushing a fader.

I recommend the book as a good overview of the basics, but it is a little dated and therefore slanted toward analog. Nothing wrong with that unless you're not doing any tape work and never plan to work in a facility that does.

PS-McIan's biggest claim to fame I believe is recording Men At Work. You know, "Do you come from a land down-under? Ooooh, yeah!"
-kent

Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 10:17 pm

...so you're saying it isn't Peter Gabriel, then? Smile

That's what I want to know.

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2002 9:18 am

Dunno if we're looking at the same cover.
-kent

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