Multi-Track Recording: A Technical & Creative Guide for the Musician & Home Recorder - Softcover

Various Authors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881885525 ISBN 13: 9780881885521

Publisher: Hal Leonard, 1988

Synopsis

With the advent of new technology at lower prices, high-quality home recording has become an accessible and even essential aspect of being a musician today. Multi-Track Recording is an introduction and guide to the latest equipment, how it works, and how to use it. Designed by the publishers of Guitar Player and Keyboard magazines, this comprehensive and easy-to-understand book explains how to set up a home studio with 4-track tape recorders, how to choose outboard gear and effects devices for your own unique sound, how to synchronize your tracks with various simple and advanced technologies, and how to incorporate MIDI in your home recording, whether it's analog or digital. Suitable for both working at home and advancing to the studio, Multi-Track Recording offers invaluable tips on choosing a mixer, soundproofing, echo and delay, reverb, compression, stereo, noise gates, sync tones and click tracks, SMPTE, drum machines, MIDI time code, advanced techniques and the latest applications and MIDI and tapeless recording. Written by working musicians and studio professionals, the book has practical creative tips as well as the basic information, theory and technique necessary to make professional sounding multi-track recordings-yourself.

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About the Author

Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hal Leonard
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881885525
• ISBN 13: 9780881885521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128