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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.

Spend less time learning and more time recording Logic Pro X offers Mac users the tools and power they need to create recordings ready to share with the world. This book provides the know-how for navigating the interface, tweaking the settings, picking the sounds, and all the other tech tasks...

Telling the story of the 'mixmaster' Pete Hammond's incredible 40 year career in music production, Get Down Here and Mix Yourself a Hit lifts the lid on life behind the hits and the unique contribution made by Pete to countless hit records, many of which came to define the Stock Aitken and Waterman...

Joe Meek’s Bold Techniques updates the 2001 print edition, and features a new Introduction, an additional chapter, and a newly restored and remastered version of Meek’s legendary 1959 stereo album about life on the Moon, I Hear a New World. Joe Meek was an iconoclastic British recording innovator...

Paul White, of Sound On Sound magazine, presents a unique book that promises to get you up and running with MIDI in just eight weeks! Learn the basics of MIDI data, and the possibilities it has grown to present and get your MIDI equipment talking to each other in blissful synchronicity. Understand the...

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...

Basic Multitracking covers recording techniques for analogue and digital tape-based methods of working, as well as tapeless systems. This book will help to attain professional standards.

by David Atkinson, Vic Gammon, Rikky Rooksby, Mark Brend, John Morrish, Martin Carthy, and Nigel Williamson. Words & melodies for 80+ traditional songs, plus detailed explorations of their history & meaning and their value to writers & performers. With audio tracks of 20 songs recorded in the field.

Hailed a “significant contribution” by The New York Times, David Noble’s book America by Design describes the factors that have shaped the history of scientific technology in the United States. Since the beginning, technology and industry have been undeniably intertwined, and Noble demonstrates...

Fading West is the ninth studio album by the American alternative rock band Switchfoot, released on January 14, 2014 through Atlantic.Fading West sold 39,000 units in its first week of the release in the U.S., allowing it to debut at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, and thus become the band's...

Each of the 14 songs from Beatles For Sale and 4 assorted singles are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.   Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves...

The 1,000 Song Ideas contained in this ebook are designed to jumpstart the creative writing process by providing titles, phrases and starting points with strong development potential. It addresses the initial phase of writing from the perspective that verses and choruses are there to support the central...

Spin the Decks delves into the minds of those who are passionate about records and looks at how collecting records has become so popular again. It deals with the rises and falls of the record and what people are doing to revive their beloved records in the modern age.

Basic Live Sound has the answers for setting up equipment for live performance and DJ techniques. Discover how to work in different spaces with a variety of performance events, and the equipment required to get the sound just right.