Sound Recording Advice

*NEW 45-PAGE ADDENDUM WRITTEN FOR 2014* (This comes with the book purchase) Sound Recording Advice is a thorough yet simplified guide on how to set up a home recording studio. The book reads easily and covers all aspects of recording including power, ground, acoustics, studio layout and furniture, what new and used equipment to buy and where to buy it for lowest prices, how to record various instruments and then mix, bounce tracks and generate a master recording.
The book also includes hundreds of other important tips, including info on how to make and modify some of your own equipment and troubleshoot studio problems. It is perfectly placed on the ladder of technical depth, and handles the subject of home recording with an informed, do-it-yourself, hands-on mentality. This book will show you how to get the biggest bang for your buck.
The new update adds 40 pages to the book and covers these topics below. This update to the book covers the latest techniques on how to use a computer in the home recording studio:
Why Record With a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)?
To Get Successful Results, What s Required?
Build or Buy a Computer to Host the DAW? And Which DAW to Buy?
Optimize Your Computer for Audio Recording and Efficient Real time DAW Operation.
Which DAW Should You Use?
Which Audio Interface Should You Use?
Important Concept: Gain Staging in the DAW
Tracking with the DAW
Before You Mix
Mixing with Plugins in the DAW
Mastering with the DAW
The DAW Controller
Tuning Your Room and Monitor System
Other DAW tips
Free or Near-free Stuff to Download and Try with Your DAW
The book and addendum also come with the latest equipment recommendations and the answers to hundreds of questions that have been sent into the author's website over the years. All these are included with the book purchase!

John J. Volanski initially became interested in recording audio back in the 1960s in Ohio when his father first purchased a 4-track reel/reel recorder with the sound-on-sound feature. Since that time, audio engineering and sound recording have always been a part of his personal and professional pursuits.

John is an electrical and audio engineer who has operated his own home recording studio for over 20 years. The text in this book gives his unique and simplified perspectives on the important aspects of home studio recording. He also enjoys writing, and has written articles for Electronic Musician magazine and Avionics magazine. John has a MBA from National University and a BSEE from Ohio State University.

In his professional life as an electrical engineer, John has over 23 years of engineering design and management experience with successful product development of avionics simulator systems as well as work with Virtual Reality and systems using audio and video. He has held engineering design and engineering management jobs at General Dynamics, Ball Systems Engineering, and Cubic Defense Systems. At GreyStone Technologies, John won a patent for his work on a motion based Virtual Reality machine.

As Senior Engineering Manager at the Video Systems Division of Sensormatic, John had the overall design, development responsibility for all embedded systems security and surveillance products, including the Integra Digital Time Lapse Video DVDRAM Recorder (which won the SIA Product of the Year award for CCTV for 2000).

As VP Engineering at Excelsus Technologies, John helped win the SIA New Product Showcase 2001 Product Achievement Award for False Alarm Reduction.

John’s future plans include updating his book as more cool gear becomes available and pursuing his interests in audio engineering, electrical engineering and music.