A hands-on practical guide for several aspects of recording that is useful for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians and audio enthusiasts. This book offers advice on equipping a home studio (both low-budget and advanced), with suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum.

"Practical Recording Techniques" is a hands-on practical guide for all aspects of recording, ideal for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this book offers advice on equipping a home studio (both low-budget and advanced), with suggestions for set-up, acoustics, choosing monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also tells how to judge recordings and improve them to produce maximum results. Two extensive glossaries clearly explain audio jargon and sound-quality descriptions. This book includes: extensive coverage of digital recording technology and techniques, including computer DAWs and optimizing them for best performance; extra coverage of the basics, such as speed of sound, inverse square law, sound-wave interference, reflection and diffusion; comprehensive look at all types of microphones, including live-vocal, digital and headworn mics; a detailed instrument frequency range chart. Also new to this edition is an accompanying audio CD (Mac and PC compatible), which will enable you to actually hear the effects and techniques described in the book.

This book is crammed full of everything you need to know to get started with professional recording...Overall this is a good general guide that could be useful to have on the shelf. - Future Music This book is indispensable. - Stills Audio Motion This book takes you through the basics very well and its real strong point is that it shares numerous nuggets gleaned from experience to do with all sorts of little things that become quite big things when you're faced with a problem. - www.mstation.org It is packed with well-illustrated graphics and pictures and gives extensive guidance on everything from studio and location recording techniques through to publishing your sounds on the web. James Eade, Lighting and Sound International

• Music: Why You Record
• The Recording Chain
• Sound, Signals, and Studio Acoustics
• Setting Up Your Studio
• Monitoring
• Microphones
• Microphone-Technique Basics
• Microphone Techniques
• Digital Recording
• Signal Processors and Effects
• Recorder-Mixers and Mi