Acoustics category: 434 books
Mixing Audio
Concepts, Practices, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices, and Tools, Third Edition is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing. This book covers the entire mixing process – from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques. Packed full of photos, graphs, diagrams, and audio samples, it teaches...
Mix Smart
professional techniques for the home studio
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
After you've recorded the perfect song, you're only halfway there! Mixing is where the magic really happens and getting the perfect mix is a challenge. One of the most elusive arts of the recording practice, mixing can take a lifetime to master - this handbook jump-starts your skills and fast-forwards...
by Scott Watson
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
It has never been easier or more fun for students to compose, improvise, arrange, and produce music and music-related projects than with today's technology. Written in a practical, accessible manner, Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity offers both a framework for and practical tips on the...
Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer
A Practical Guide to Writing and Sequencing for the Studio Orchestra
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer, Second Edition provides effective explanations and illustrations to teach you how to integrate traditional approaches to orchestration with the use of the modern sequencing techniques and tools available to today’s composer. By covering...
Audio Engineering 101
A Beginner's Guide to Music Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Pratical, concise, and approachable, Audio Engineering 101, Second Edition covers everything aspiring audio engineers need to know to make it in the recording industry, from the characteristics of sound to microphones, analog versus digital recording, EQ/compression, mixing, mastering, and career...
How to Make Great Music Mashups
The Start-to-Finish Guide to Making Mashups with Ableton Live
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Written for the beginner DJ, this accessible book presents everything you need to know in order to create great dance floor moments that will take your sets to the next level and get you noticed as a DJ. Using Ableton’s industry-leading digital audio workstation, the reader will learn to achieve...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Music Preservation and Archiving Today moves beyond the how-to and assembles the work currently being done to preserve music and "scenes" via essays, case studies, and overviews of work by academic archives as well as communitydriven preservation projects.
by Mike Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Sure, you can import and mix a track in Pro Tools. You can work with MIDI and you know your way around the Edit window. The UI is as familiar as your most broken-in pair of jeans. We get it—you don’t need another button-pushing guide starting from the ground floor.
Get uniquely in-depth...
Audio Production Tips
Getting the Sound Right at the Source
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Audio Production Tips: Getting the Sound Right at the Source provides practical and accessible information detailing the production processes for recording today’s bands. By demonstrating how to "get the sound right at the source," author Peter Dowsett lays the appropriate framework to...
by Mark M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended...
by G. Randy Slone
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Design and build awesome audio amps. Amateur and professional audiophiles alike can now design and construct superior quality amplifiers at a fraction of comparable retail prices with step-by-step instruction from the High-Power audio Amplifier Construction Manual. Randy Slone, professional audio writer...
The New Analog
Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
An NPR Best Book of the Year: “A pointedly passionate look at what’s been lost in the digital era.” —Los Angeles Times
A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital....
by Douglas Self
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book is essential for audio power amplifier designers and engineers for one simple reason...it enables you as a professional to develop reliable, high-performance circuits. The Author Douglas Self covers the major issues of distortion and linearity, power supplies, overload, DC-protection and...
by Dale Angell
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is a step by step guide for editing sound to picture using Pro Tools, starting by explaining the Pro Tools systems the author does a great job covering all key audio topics including the equipment, sound, music, effects, output and mixing tools.
The book is for professional sound engineers and...