"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 discuss the technical requirements of optimizing the sound of a source. Through its coverage of critical listening, pre-production, arrangement, drum tuning, gain staging and many other areas of music production, Audio Production Tips allows you to build the wide array of skills that apply to the creative process of music production. Broken into two parts, the book first presents foundational concepts followed by more specific production advice on a range of instruments.
Key features:
Important in-depth coverage of music theory, arrangement and its applications.
Real life examples with key references to the author’s music production background.
Presents concepts alongside the production of a track captured specifically for the book.
A detailed companion website, including audio, video, Pro Tools session files of the track recording process, and videos including accompanying audio that can be examined in the reader’s DAW.
Please visit the accompanying companion website, available at www.audioproductiontips.com, for resources that further support the book’s practical approach."
By:
Peter Dowsett
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 191mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 944g
ISBN: 9781138807372
ISBN 10: 1138807370
Pages: 538
Publication Date: 23 October 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Introduction Contributors Chapter 1: Production Philosophies, Your Ears and Critical Listening Chapter 2: Project Management and Pre-Production Chapter 3: Basic Music Theory Chapter 4: Song Structure, Lyrics and Melody Chapter 5: Advanced Music Theory Chapter 6: Arrangement and Orchestration Chapter 7: Demystifying Recording Levels Chapter 8: Microphone, Pre-Amp and Live Room Choice Chapter 9: The Critical Listening Environment Chapter 10: Decision-Making and General Recording Techniques Chapter 11: Tracking Drums Chapter 12: Tracking Electric and Bass Guitar Chapter 13: Tracking Other Instrumentation Chapter 14: Tracking Vocals Epilogue
Peter Dowsett is a British audio engineer known for his experience with many facets of the music industry including studio engineering, mixing, mastering and live sound In the studio he has worked at Metropolis studios with clients including Pharrell Williams, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Downton Abbey, Nick Jonas, and Dappy. His work has been synced on ABC, Channel 5 and featured on cover CDs for Metal Hammer magazine. He has received extensive international radio and television airplay. In a live sound environment Peter has toured with Ugly Kid Joe, Fozzy, Twisted Wheel and Beholder and has engineered major festivals including Download, Sonisphere, Wacken Polish Woodstock, and Lockerse. He has also worked FOH or monitors at Coventry Kasbah, Birmingham Institute, and Nuneaton Queens Hall for The Darkness, Buzzcocks, Foals, Miles Kane, Dodgy, Ash, Cast, Chase and Status, Pulled Apart by Horses, and We are the Ocean.
