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"This expanded, up-to-date edition can help guide you in creating, understanding and mastering the pro and project studio. The tips, tricks and tools in this best-selling book will enable you to record music in new and innovative ways that'll help you express your talents to their fullest potential. Accompanied by an interactive companion website (modrec.com) that leaves no recording question unanswered."--Music Connection Magazine
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As the most popular and authoritative guide to recording Modern Recording Techniques provides everything you need to master the tools and day to day practice of music recording and production. From room acoustics and running a session to mic placement and designing a studio Modern Recording Techniques will give you a really good grounding in the theory and industry practice. Expanded to include the latest digital audio technology the 7th edition now includes sections on podcasting, new surround sound formats and HD and audio.
If you are just starting out or looking for a step up in industry, Modern Recording Techniques provides an in depth excellent read- the must have book
*THE go to resource providing tips and techniques for getting the best results from music recording, be prepared with the know how required when working in the recording studio
*Includes over 500 technical diagrams, screenshots and product illustrations, makes information accessible and aids understanding
*Companion website provides tutorials and video content, with practical examples of the principals- clarifying how they work
If you are just starting out or looking for a step up in industry, Modern Recording Techniques provides an in depth excellent read- the must have book
*THE go to resource providing tips and techniques for getting the best results from music recording, be prepared with the know how required when working in the recording studio
*Includes over 500 technical diagrams, screenshots and product illustrations, makes information accessible and aids understanding
*Companion website provides tutorials and video content, with practical examples of the principals- clarifying how they work
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Format:Paperback
this book is really complete, it has all the subjects that I need to understand in the Audio course that I'm taking in this moment.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think this is a great book. Comprehensive, well written, feels fresh and not rehashed from other work. Better than I expected. Well done David Miles Huber and Robert E. Runstein.
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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Decent reference. Needs more editing, and lower price.
26 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
Pros:
Not sure how much the 7th edition differs from previous editions, but I feel this book is a solid reference for beginner/intermediate recording. It touches on every part of the recording process and has a lot of broad info (though some parts are way more useful than others).
There are some useful bits throughout the book that helped me get more mileage from my recording space and processes. The sections about setting up monitors in a room (with example pics), approaches to absorbing/diffusing sound and standing waves, and the general tips on working with computer-based DAW's were great. There is also plenty of useful info on sitting instruments in a mix based on frequency, panning, and reverberation.
Cons:
More than $40 is too much for a recording reference book that is not even hardcover.
The scope is so large that it does not dive too deep into any one facet of recording. To the author's credit he encourages you to use the web for more in-depth material (but I wanted that material in a book).
The book is verbose. All the practical and useful tips are buried between pages, and there is no decent summary of the really important items at the start or end of each chapter, which is frustrating for note-takers. Blue text is used to highlight special ideas or points on each page, but it is abused so much that the emphasis fails. 35% of the words could have been cut from the book while still retaining the same ideas and principles.
A more concise version of the most important recording principles can be found in McLan's 1997 "Using Your Portable Studio" which is old, but presents the same amount of timeless practical recording knowledge in far fewer pages.
Other thoughts:
Would have gotten 4-5 stars if it was more condensed, and spent more pages on real-world recording scenarios and applications (like specific trade-secrets from big-name engineers, or case studies would have been great additions).
I have been looking for a book containing real-world step-by-step recording practices and processes written like a recipe book, but I have discovered that such a narrow approach is better suited to a website. So, for more advanced and specific how-to's on techniques in mastering, mixing, midi sequencing, and the like, take the author's advice and search the web.
Not sure how much the 7th edition differs from previous editions, but I feel this book is a solid reference for beginner/intermediate recording. It touches on every part of the recording process and has a lot of broad info (though some parts are way more useful than others).
There are some useful bits throughout the book that helped me get more mileage from my recording space and processes. The sections about setting up monitors in a room (with example pics), approaches to absorbing/diffusing sound and standing waves, and the general tips on working with computer-based DAW's were great. There is also plenty of useful info on sitting instruments in a mix based on frequency, panning, and reverberation.
Cons:
More than $40 is too much for a recording reference book that is not even hardcover.
The scope is so large that it does not dive too deep into any one facet of recording. To the author's credit he encourages you to use the web for more in-depth material (but I wanted that material in a book).
The book is verbose. All the practical and useful tips are buried between pages, and there is no decent summary of the really important items at the start or end of each chapter, which is frustrating for note-takers. Blue text is used to highlight special ideas or points on each page, but it is abused so much that the emphasis fails. 35% of the words could have been cut from the book while still retaining the same ideas and principles.
A more concise version of the most important recording principles can be found in McLan's 1997 "Using Your Portable Studio" which is old, but presents the same amount of timeless practical recording knowledge in far fewer pages.
Other thoughts:
Would have gotten 4-5 stars if it was more condensed, and spent more pages on real-world recording scenarios and applications (like specific trade-secrets from big-name engineers, or case studies would have been great additions).
I have been looking for a book containing real-world step-by-step recording practices and processes written like a recipe book, but I have discovered that such a narrow approach is better suited to a website. So, for more advanced and specific how-to's on techniques in mastering, mixing, midi sequencing, and the like, take the author's advice and search the web.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Perfect Introduction Book
28 May 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you want to enter the recording world and you don't know where to start, this is the perfect book to do so. If you are currently just starting your audio engineer career, this is also a great choice. It's full of graphs, figures and well explained diagrams. Can't go wrong with this one.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Good text, sub-par Kindle translation.
18 Jan 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This review is for the Kindle edition of Modern Recording Techniques. This book is my first Kindle book, and so far I am fairly pleased. I bought the book for my HP TouchPad and its included Kindle Reader (Beta). Compared to the physical copy of the text, which is quite large (over 600 pages long!), my tablet is light and tiny!
Reading the textbook is actually pleasant. The text is not as dense as other textbooks, so it is a fairly easy read. The diagrams are both clear and useful, and they definitely help with my understanding of the subject. In the Kindle edition, there are also links inside the text, so whenever the text references another section of itself or another chapter, you can touch the link and instantly navigate to the location it references. There is also a back button, allowing a reader to instantly return to the previous page after clicking the link.
However, the main complaint I have with this textbook, and the reason I must knock it down one star, is that it does not come with a table of contents. It has a lovely index of links at the end, but the inability to jump to chapters or even read the table of contents is a serious flaw, and its exclusion was a tremendous oversight. The only advantages to the Kindle edition, which you cannot resell when your class has ended, are its portability and the ability to jump to linked locations. Due to other reviewers who also noticed that the table of contents was missing, I was able to make an informed decision when I purchased this edition, but it is still disappointing.
For those of you who, like me, are still interested in the Kindle edition of the textbook, go ahead and buy it! If you want to make your own table of contents, place bookmarks in the following locations:
1485, 2121, 2592, 3169, 4193, 4442, 4993, 5762, 6000, 7014, 7603, 7949, 8053, 8703, 9430, 9575, 9909, 10182, 10349, 10697, 10998, 11140, 11178, and 11299.
While it is not an actual table of contents, it will allow you to find the necessary chapters much more quickly than if you had no bookmarks at all, a tremendous boon if you are reading this book for a class and not on your own time.
Reading the textbook is actually pleasant. The text is not as dense as other textbooks, so it is a fairly easy read. The diagrams are both clear and useful, and they definitely help with my understanding of the subject. In the Kindle edition, there are also links inside the text, so whenever the text references another section of itself or another chapter, you can touch the link and instantly navigate to the location it references. There is also a back button, allowing a reader to instantly return to the previous page after clicking the link.
However, the main complaint I have with this textbook, and the reason I must knock it down one star, is that it does not come with a table of contents. It has a lovely index of links at the end, but the inability to jump to chapters or even read the table of contents is a serious flaw, and its exclusion was a tremendous oversight. The only advantages to the Kindle edition, which you cannot resell when your class has ended, are its portability and the ability to jump to linked locations. Due to other reviewers who also noticed that the table of contents was missing, I was able to make an informed decision when I purchased this edition, but it is still disappointing.
For those of you who, like me, are still interested in the Kindle edition of the textbook, go ahead and buy it! If you want to make your own table of contents, place bookmarks in the following locations:
1485, 2121, 2592, 3169, 4193, 4442, 4993, 5762, 6000, 7014, 7603, 7949, 8053, 8703, 9430, 9575, 9909, 10182, 10349, 10697, 10998, 11140, 11178, and 11299.
While it is not an actual table of contents, it will allow you to find the necessary chapters much more quickly than if you had no bookmarks at all, a tremendous boon if you are reading this book for a class and not on your own time.
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