Recording Techniques: For Small Studios

* For musicians, recording engineers and enthusiasts
* Helps you plan the recording session
* Covers recording techniques for vocals, drums, guitar and keyboards
* Use MIDI and multitrack and get the best of both worlds
* Appendices on equipment suppliers etc
* Glossary of terms
* List of recording studios
* Published in conjunction with Sound on Sound magazine

Whether you are a recording musician or a recording engineer learning the trade, David Mellor tells you everything you need to know to get the best from the studio recording process. Everything from planning the recording session, microphone techniques, recording vocals, drums, guitars and keyboards, using MIDI and synchronising, operating the mixing console, the use of compressors and noise gates, equalisation, location recording, adding effects, monitoring, mixdown, digital and hard disk recording - and much more.

With useful appendices giving lists of UK recording studios and a glossary of terms, it's a book no recording musician or engineer can afford to be without.

David Mellor is a composer and musician who produces music for radio, film, television and CD in his home recording studio. His music and recordings are frequently heard on BBC TV and Radio, Independent Television and Channel 4. He has worked as a sound engineer at the Royal Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and other major venues in the UK and abroad.