Navigating the World of Recording with a Working Class Perspective-Working Class Audio (WCA) is the home of the Working-Class Audio Posdcast hosted by veteran Bay Area producer/engineer and drummer Matt Boudreau. And over the years it has become a treasure trove of inspirational interviews with some of the best audio engineers in the business. The Working Class Audio Journal series captures the essence of Matt's podcast interviews with industry professionals in an easy-to-digest written form. Matt moves beyond the technical and gets to the core of how top engineers practice their craft delving into the world behind recording. He goes way beyond the typical what was it like to work with or what is the best EQ to use on a kick drum stylequestions typical of most interviews. WCA gets up close and personal with engineers and asks the questions no one else asks. Business practices mistakes failures equipment choices financial advice work life balance workflow and family life are topics that are all on the table. Volume 1 includes interviews with engineer producer and label owner Andrew Scheps (Black Sabbath Jay Z Beyonce Metallica) mastering engineer Kim Rosen (Bonnie Raitt Aimee Mann Steve Earle Kris Kristofferson) audio entrepreneur Langston Masingale (owner of Handsome Audio and inventor of the Zulu passive analog tape simulator) and game sound designer Mark Kilborn (Forza Motorsport Tony Hawk Call of Duty Black Ops). Join Matt and his guests as they discuss their professional journeys. The interviews explore the business dealings approaches to finances survival techniques and the work/life balance as they pertain to a successful audio career. Through their words you'll gain new perspective and ideas to help you navigate your own career.

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise maximize your good work and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide intertwining a broad range of knowledge regarding audio engineering principles and practical applications for those wishing to enhance their own as well as their clients' work. In addition to providing a step-by-step in-depth survey of a successful mastering plug-in chain Desktop Mastering covers real-world practical applications the fundamentals of audio and electronics. Also included is a personal guide to the business of mastering leveraging emerging social networks for positive personal and business results. Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise maximize your good work and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide intertwining a broad range of knowledge regarding audio engineering principles and practical applications for those wishing to enhance their own as well as their clients' work. In addition to providing a step-by-step in-depth survey of a successful mastering plug-in chain Desktop Mastering covers real-world practical applications the fundamentals of audio and electronics. Also included is a personal guide to thebusiness of mastering leveraging emerging social networks for positive personal and business results.

10 Setups That Will Make Your Instrument Louder Better and Easier to Play-String musicians know only this: everything is vibrating. The movement of the spheres? A gurus cryptic musing? Hypersensitivity to plate tectonics? Not quite. This is the briefest possible distillation of Tragers Principle which states “When astring instrument is being played everything is vibrating from the top of the scroll to the tip of the endpin.” This simple formula the purest distillation of master luthier Chuck Traegers lifetime of learning holds the key to configuring yourinstrument to your specifications. It also forms the crux of his third and final book: String Instrument Setups: 10 Setups That Will Make Your Instrument Louder Better and Easier to Play. At the height of the Big Band era Traeger a doublebassist performed alongside a veritable whos who of New York jazz musicians including the likes of Louie Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. In was in this capacity – as Charlie Traeger one hip cat and a regularly frustrated client of NYCs instrumentrepair shops –Ÿthat he began his pursuit of sonic perfection. In 1969 satisfied with his abilities but devoted to constant self-improvement he opened his first repair shop. Before he knew it his reputation was preceding him and he found himselfhandling the instruments of school band novices and the New York Philharmonic alike. On his seventieth birthday Traeger retired from musicianship and devoted himself to comprehensively documenting all he had learned about his craft. Two decadeslater shortly after he put the finishing touches on String Instrument Setups Chuck Traeger passed away on November 9 2016. Scarcely a month had elapsed since the death of his beloved wife June to whom he was married for over sixty blissfulyears. Albeit with a heavy heart we at Hal Leonard Books are proud to present this remarkable mans parting gift to generations of current and future musicians. String Instrument Setups is the culmination of forty-five years of acoustic researchinvolving Tragers old standby the double bass and in turn any string instrument with a moveable bridge and a moveable tailpiece or one that can be made moveable. Armed with this book were confident that the average musician can enter almostany string instrument maker or repair shop in the world (the exception being a shop that has already read String Instrument Setups) ask for their best repair or restoration then make that instrument sound louder better and easier to play everytime. This is neither braggadocio nor hyperbole rather its the confidence instilled by one mans extensive research wholehearted devotion and firm belief in the sacred bond between instrument and musician. After reading String Instrument Setups were sure youll feel the same. Of all the knowledge that a good luthier - one who makes stringed musical instruments - can possess knowledge of a proper setup is far and away the most important. Proper set

Navigating the World of Recording with a Working Class Perspective-Working Class Audio (WCA) is the home of the Working-Class Audio Posdcast hosted by veteran Bay Area producer/engineer and drummer Matt Boudreau. And over the years it has become a treasure trove of inspirational interviews with some of the best audio engineers in the business. The Working Class Audio Journal series captures the essence of Matt's podcast interviews with industry professionals in an easy-to-digest written form. Matt moves beyond the technical and gets to the core of how top engineers practice their craft delving into the world behind recording. He goes way beyond the typical what was it like to work with or what is the best EQ to use on a kick drum stylequestions typical of most interviews. WCA gets up close and personal with engineers and asks the questions no one else asks. Business practices mistakes failures equipment choices financial advice work life balance workflow and family life are topics that are all on the table. Volume 1 includes interviews with engineer producer and label owner Andrew Scheps (Black Sabbath Jay Z Beyonce Metallica) mastering engineer Kim Rosen (Bonnie Raitt Aimee Mann Steve Earle Kris Kristofferson) audio entrepreneur Langston Masingale (owner of Handsome Audio and inventor of the Zulu passive analog tape simulator) and game sound designer Mark Kilborn (Forza Motorsport Tony Hawk Call of Duty Black Ops). Join Matt and his guests as they discuss their professional journeys. The interviews explore the business dealings approaches to finances survival techniques and the work/life balance as they pertain to a successful audio career. Through their words you'll gain new perspective and ideas to help you navigate your own career.

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise maximize your good work and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide intertwining a broad range of knowledge regarding audio engineering principles and practical applications for those wishing to enhance their own as well as their clients' work. In addition to providing a step-by-step in-depth survey of a successful mastering plug-in chain Desktop Mastering covers real-world practical applications the fundamentals of audio and electronics. Also included is a personal guide to the business of mastering leveraging emerging social networks for positive personal and business results. Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise maximize your good work and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide intertwining a broad range of knowledge regarding audio engineering principles and practical applications for those wishing to enhance their own as well as their clients' work. In addition to providing a step-by-step in-depth survey of a successful mastering plug-in chain Desktop Mastering covers real-world practical applications the fundamentals of audio and electronics. Also included is a personal guide to thebusiness of mastering leveraging emerging social networks for positive personal and business results.

10 Setups That Will Make Your Instrument Louder Better and Easier to Play-String musicians know only this: everything is vibrating. The movement of the spheres? A gurus cryptic musing? Hypersensitivity to plate tectonics? Not quite. This is the briefest possible distillation of Tragers Principle which states “When astring instrument is being played everything is vibrating from the top of the scroll to the tip of the endpin.” This simple formula the purest distillation of master luthier Chuck Traegers lifetime of learning holds the key to configuring yourinstrument to your specifications. It also forms the crux of his third and final book: String Instrument Setups: 10 Setups That Will Make Your Instrument Louder Better and Easier to Play. At the height of the Big Band era Traeger a doublebassist performed alongside a veritable whos who of New York jazz musicians including the likes of Louie Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. In was in this capacity – as Charlie Traeger one hip cat and a regularly frustrated client of NYCs instrumentrepair shops –Ÿthat he began his pursuit of sonic perfection. In 1969 satisfied with his abilities but devoted to constant self-improvement he opened his first repair shop. Before he knew it his reputation was preceding him and he found himselfhandling the instruments of school band novices and the New York Philharmonic alike. On his seventieth birthday Traeger retired from musicianship and devoted himself to comprehensively documenting all he had learned about his craft. Two decadeslater shortly after he put the finishing touches on String Instrument Setups Chuck Traeger passed away on November 9 2016. Scarcely a month had elapsed since the death of his beloved wife June to whom he was married for over sixty blissfulyears. Albeit with a heavy heart we at Hal Leonard Books are proud to present this remarkable mans parting gift to generations of current and future musicians. String Instrument Setups is the culmination of forty-five years of acoustic researchinvolving Tragers old standby the double bass and in turn any string instrument with a moveable bridge and a moveable tailpiece or one that can be made moveable. Armed with this book were confident that the average musician can enter almostany string instrument maker or repair shop in the world (the exception being a shop that has already read String Instrument Setups) ask for their best repair or restoration then make that instrument sound louder better and easier to play everytime. This is neither braggadocio nor hyperbole rather its the confidence instilled by one mans extensive research wholehearted devotion and firm belief in the sacred bond between instrument and musician. After reading String Instrument Setups were sure youll feel the same. Of all the knowledge that a good luthier - one who makes stringed musical instruments - can possess knowledge of a proper setup is far and away the most important. Proper set

Navigating the World of Recording with a Working Class Perspective-Working Class Audio (WCA) is the home of the Working-Class Audio Posdcast hosted by veteran Bay Area producer/engineer and drummer Matt Boudreau. And over the years it has become a treasure trove of inspirational interviews with some of the best audio engineers in the business. The Working Class Audio Journal series captures the essence of Matt's podcast interviews with industry professionals in an easy-to-digest written form. Matt moves beyond the technical and gets to the core of how top engineers practice their craft delving into the world behind recording. He goes way beyond the typical what was it like to work with or what is the best EQ to use on a kick drum stylequestions typical of most interviews. WCA gets up close and personal with engineers and asks the questions no one else asks. Business practices mistakes failures equipment choices financial advice work life balance workflow and family life are topics that are all on the table. Volume 1 includes interviews with engineer producer and label owner Andrew Scheps (Black Sabbath Jay Z Beyonce Metallica) mastering engineer Kim Rosen (Bonnie Raitt Aimee Mann Steve Earle Kris Kristofferson) audio entrepreneur Langston Masingale (owner of Handsome Audio and inventor of the Zulu passive analog tape simulator) and game sound designer Mark Kilborn (Forza Motorsport Tony Hawk Call of Duty Black Ops). Join Matt and his guests as they discuss their professional journeys. The interviews explore the business dealings approaches to finances survival techniques and the work/life balance as they pertain to a successful audio career. Through their words you'll gain new perspective and ideas to help you navigate your own career.

Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise maximize your good work and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide intertwining a broad range of knowledge regarding audio engineering principles and practical applications for those wishing to enhance their own as well as their clients' work. In addition to providing a step-by-step in-depth survey of a successful mastering plug-in chain Desktop Mastering covers real-world practical applications the fundamentals of audio and electronics. Also included is a personal guide to the business of mastering leveraging emerging social networks for positive personal and business results. Mastering your music is like mastering your life. It's amazing what happens when you clean up the noise maximize your good work and have your music sparkle and shine as you really want it to. Desktop Mastering is a conceptual guide intertwining a broad range of knowledge regarding audio engineering principles and practical applications for those wishing to enhance their own as well as their clients' work. In addition to providing a step-by-step in-depth survey of a successful mastering plug-in chain Desktop Mastering covers real-world practical applications the fundamentals of audio and electronics. Also included is a personal guide to thebusiness of mastering leveraging emerging social networks for positive personal and business results.

10 Setups That Will Make Your Instrument Louder Better and Easier to Play-String musicians know only this: everything is vibrating. The movement of the spheres? A gurus cryptic musing? Hypersensitivity to plate tectonics? Not quite. This is the briefest possible distillation of Tragers Principle which states “When astring instrument is being played everything is vibrating from the top of the scroll to the tip of the endpin.” This simple formula the purest distillation of master luthier Chuck Traegers lifetime of learning holds the key to configuring yourinstrument to your specifications. It also forms the crux of his third and final book: String Instrument Setups: 10 Setups That Will Make Your Instrument Louder Better and Easier to Play. At the height of the Big Band era Traeger a doublebassist performed alongside a veritable whos who of New York jazz musicians including the likes of Louie Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. In was in this capacity – as Charlie Traeger one hip cat and a regularly frustrated client of NYCs instrumentrepair shops –Ÿthat he began his pursuit of sonic perfection. In 1969 satisfied with his abilities but devoted to constant self-improvement he opened his first repair shop. Before he knew it his reputation was preceding him and he found himselfhandling the instruments of school band novices and the New York Philharmonic alike. On his seventieth birthday Traeger retired from musicianship and devoted himself to comprehensively documenting all he had learned about his craft. Two decadeslater shortly after he put the finishing touches on String Instrument Setups Chuck Traeger passed away on November 9 2016. Scarcely a month had elapsed since the death of his beloved wife June to whom he was married for over sixty blissfulyears. Albeit with a heavy heart we at Hal Leonard Books are proud to present this remarkable mans parting gift to generations of current and future musicians. String Instrument Setups is the culmination of forty-five years of acoustic researchinvolving Tragers old standby the double bass and in turn any string instrument with a moveable bridge and a moveable tailpiece or one that can be made moveable. Armed with this book were confident that the average musician can enter almostany string instrument maker or repair shop in the world (the exception being a shop that has already read String Instrument Setups) ask for their best repair or restoration then make that instrument sound louder better and easier to play everytime. This is neither braggadocio nor hyperbole rather its the confidence instilled by one mans extensive research wholehearted devotion and firm belief in the sacred bond between instrument and musician. After reading String Instrument Setups were sure youll feel the same. Of all the knowledge that a good luthier - one who makes stringed musical instruments - can possess knowledge of a proper setup is far and away the most important. Proper set

The Magic Behind the Music (Hardcover)-Foreword by Paul McCartney Did you ever wonder what goes into the creation of some of the best music ever recorded? And how someone becomes an iconic music professional who is universally admired? Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music reveals answers to these questions and more. In this memoir of one of the most respected engineers of all time you'll discover how a very young boy - mentored by his uncle Harry - progressed through the recording world in its infancy and under the tutelage of legendary engineer and producer Tom Dowd in his heyday became one of the all-time great recording engineers. Today Schmitt continues as an unstoppable force at the top ofthe recording world with his name on megahits from the likes of Paul McCartney to Diana Krall to Bob Dylan. His credits include a veritable who's who of the music world. Reading the compelling accounts of Schmitt's life in the studio you'll see how he has been able to stay at the top of his game since the 1950s and you'll experience what it was like behind the scenes and in the studio during many of his historic impactful recordings. Schmitt also shares many of the recording techniques and creative approaches that have set him apart including his use of microphones effects and processors and the setup diagrams from many of his highly lauded recording sessions. Did you ever wonder what goes into the creation of some of the best music ever recorded? And how someone becomes an iconic music professional who is universally admired? Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music reveals answers to these questions and more. In this memoir of one of the most respected engineers of all time you'll discover how a very young boy - mentored by his uncle Harry - progressed through the recording world in its infancy and under the tutelage of legendary engineer and producer Tom Dowd in his heyday became one of the all-time great recording engineers. Today Schmitt continues as an unstoppable forceat the top of the recording world with his name on megahits from the likes of Paul McCartney to Diana Krall to Bob Dylan. His credits include a veritable who's who of the music world. Reading the compelling accounts of Schmitt's life in the studio you'll see how he has been able to stay at the top of his game since the 1950s and you'll experience what it was like behind the scenes and in the studio during many of his historic impactful recordings. Schmitt also shares many of the recording techniques and creative approaches that have set him apart including his use of microphones effects and processors and the setup diagrams from many of his highly lauded recording sessions.

How to Get Great Sound from Any Studio (No Matter How Weird or Cheap Your Gear Is) A clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market. The revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording humanizing drum patterns mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since many true ?Guerrillas? still record to analogue tape we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording's reputation as the most readable user-friendly recording title on the market. How to Get Great Sound from Any Studio (No Matter How Weird or Cheap Your Gear Is) A clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market. The revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording humanizing drum patterns mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since many true “Guerrillas” still record to analogue tape we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording's reputation as the most readable user-friendly recording title on the market.

A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age-Featuring the latest music business and social media concepts as well as brand-new interviews with a variety of the industry's top movers and shakers Music 4.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age is acompletely updated version of the previous best-selling editions! How has streaming music impacted the artist and the industry? Who are the new industry players? Why do traditional record labels television and radio haveincreasingly less influence in an artist's success? How should music be marketed and distributed in this new world? How do you make money when listeners stream your music? What's the best way to develop your brand? How areFacebook Twitter and YouTube best used as marketing tools? What are the new technologies being introduced that will influence how we sell and market our work? All these questions are answered in this updated version of Music4.0 along with some new high- and low-tech tips for inexpensive marketing and promotion.

Emotional Expression in Group Singing-Most choirs spend their rehearsal time focusing on notes rhythms and precision. They rarely if ever discuss a song's meaning and feeling even though those elements are precisely what draws people to the music in the first place. Thousands of books have been written about choral technique teaching people how to sing technically well. What sets The Heart of Vocal Harmony apart is its focus on honest unified expression and the process of delivering an emotionally compelling performance. It delves into an underdeveloped vocal topic - the heart of the music and the process involved with expressing it. The Heart of Vocal Harmony is not just for a cappella groups - it is alsofor vocal harmony groups ensembles and choirs at all levels with or without instruments. In addition to the process the book features discussions with some of the biggest luminaries in vocal harmony: composers arrangers directors singers and groups - including Eric Whitacre Pentatonix the Manhattan Transfer and more! The Heart Of Vocal Harmony is a choral reference guide with a difference. While most choirs spend their rehearsal time focusing on notes rhythms and precision few discuss a song's meaning and feeling even though those elements are precisely what draws people to the music in the first place. Thousands of books have been written about choral technique teaching people how to sing technically well. What sets The Heart Of Vocal Harmony apart is its focus on honest unified expression and the process of delivering an emotionally compelling performance. It delves into an underdeveloped Vocal topic - the heart of themusic and the process involved with expressing it. The Heart Of Vocal Harmony is not just for a cappella groups - it is also for Vocal harmony groups ensembles and choirs at all levels with or without instruments. In addition to the process the book features discussions with some of the biggest luminaries in Vocal harmony: composers arrangers directors singers and groups - including Eric Whitacre Pentatonix the Manhattan Transfer and more.

Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques (Hardcover)- Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques is a dare - a challenge for those who think recording music should be done a certain way. Sylvia Massy engineer mixer and producer of such all-time great artists as Tool Prince Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers R.E.M. Oingo Boingo Johnny Cash Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more invites you to put everything you've ever known or learned about recording aside and dive head-long into the unknown. You might just find the doors blown off your conception of how great music should be recorded. If you want to take your creativity and freedom to a brand new level open your mind and hear the sermons that Sylvia Massy preaches! She lives in a world far outside the norm working in ways that though frightening to some yield results that are emotionally powerful incrediblypersonal gut-wrenching organic and even (based on her iconic client list) extremely commercially successful. Recording Unhinged contains many full-color R. Crumb-style illustrations by Massy herself!In addition to being an A-list engineer/producer she is a gifted artist! Her illustrations depict real and imaginary sessions and recording situations so the images move beyond literal demonstrations into the root-level heart and soul of her passion for recording and music! Also included are lists recipes schematics quotes and stories plus Massy interviews countless industry icons who shake-it-up in the music world. Written by the renowned American music producer Sylvia Massy Recording Unhinged introduces the reader to the creative and unconventional recording techniques that the author is best known for. This comprehensive book dares you to unlearn safe record-making to get out from behind the windshield stick your head out the sunroof and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers engineers and recording stars discard fixed notions about how music should be recorded and explore techniques that fall outside the norm and yield emotionally powerful incredibly personal gut-wrenching and even scary recordings. Joined by Hans Zimmer Al Schmitt Bruce Swedien Jack Joseph Puig Dave Pensado Tchad Blake Bob Clearmountain Linda Perry Michael Franti Michael Beinhorn Bob Ezrin Geoff Emerick and many others this book has the stories tips recipes photos advice diagrams exercises illustrations and jokes that you won't find in any other instructional manual. Recording Unhinged contains many eye-popping illustrations by Massy herself. As if being a celebrated producer isn't enough Massy 's iconic illustrations bring real and imaginary recording situations to life. Catchy Bass Lines? Engineering Marvels? How to Mic a Chic

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