Music-Recording & Reproduction

This title presents innovative methods of promoting music and products for distance teaching and commerical and non-commercial purposes for both sighted and print-impaired consumers.Author: Kia NgISBN-10: 1599041502ISBN-13: 9781599041506Publisher: Information Science ReferenceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2007Pages: 412Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.73lbsSize: 11.16h x 8.75w x 1.04dReview Citation(s): Reference and...

Bringing concepts from early film theory into dialogue with the vibrant field of contemporary sound studies, Wild Sound turns an analytic eye and ear to the role of the soundscape in cinema, particularly the way that film soundtracks capture, create, represent, and even critique...

Valuable reference for all involved in surround sound production no matter what form/ areaAuthor: Tomlinson HolmanISBN-10: 0240808290ISBN-13: 9780240808291Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2007Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.26h x 7.60w x 0.60d

Bringing sampling to a new generation of audio engineers and composers Audio Sampling explains how to record and create sampled instruments in a software setting. There are many things that go into creating a sampled instrument and many things that can go wrong, this...

From the paperwork to the practical aspects, Access All Areas gives you an excellent insight into the live music and touring industry. Drawing on a vast range of real-world experiences Wilkins provides you with the key technical aspects of gigging and touring in an...

An expert team from SONY Europe explains the technology behind today's major digital audio consumer products, including the Compact Disc, MiniDisc, Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio, MP3 and Digital Audio Tape. Beginning with a fascinating overview of the history of audio technology, this fourth edition...

The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessible investigation of how the design of these most influential musical instruments is shaped by technological factors, institutional contexts, market forces and imagined...

Author: B.ISBN-13: 9798242598690Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2026Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d

Unlock the Full Power of Cubase 15 and Deliver Radio-Ready Tracks from Your Home Studio.In the modern production era, the distance between a home recording and a professional hit isn't about expensive gear, it is about mastering the Digital Alchemy of your workstation. Mastering...

Transform your studio from a draining workspace into a sanctuary that fuels your creativity. Whether you're a musician, podcaster, or artist, How to Build a Studio That Loves You Back shows you how to design a space that supports your energy, workflow, and imagination....

Principles of Electronic Music Production offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts that shape contemporary electronic music production, revealing it as a complex tradition.Author: Thomas BrettISBN-10: 1032954868ISBN-13: 9781032954868Publisher: Focal PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2025Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.42d

Bethany Joy Lenz: Embracing Creativity - Balancing Acting, Music, and DirectingEver dreamed of chasing multiple creative passions?Actor, musician, and director Bethany Joy Lenz knows the joys and struggles of a life filled with artistic pursuits. This book explores the worries and challenges that come...

Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record labels, including Sarah Records, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers. Moving from Edison's phonograph to digital music files, from record...

The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches on key themes like noise and silence; architecture, acoustics and...

Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record is the first in-depth study of the vinyl record. Richard Osborne traces the evolution of the recording format from its roots in the first sound recording experiments to its survival in the world of digital technologies. This...

Succinct and to the point, David Rovics demystifies the very different skills necessary to cultivate the arts of songwriting, guitar-playing and tour booking. In an era when the truly independent record label is virtually a thing of the past, Rovics explains how it's possible...

Whether you dream about becoming a rock star or a sought-after talent playing local gigs, Starting Your Career as a Musician will guide you along the path to success. Author Neil Tortorella explores the myriad opportunities in music today and details proven strategies for...

It is clear that the digital age has fully embraced music production, distribution, and transcendence for a vivid audience that demands more music both in quantity and versatility. However, the evolving world of digital music production faces a calamity of tremendous proportions: the asymmetrically...

How Does It Sound Now? features 32 interviews with top engineers and producers who have contributed to hundreds of millions of albums and CDs throughout their combined careers, including a new interview with Leslie Gaston-Bird for this second edition.Winner of the 2010 Association for...

This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These three sound technologies shaped Americans' relation to music from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Second World War, by which time the technologies...

The Art of Producing is the first book to standardize a specific production process for creating a successful music project from start to finish. Author: David Gibson,Maestro CurtisISBN-10: 0815369387ISBN-13: 9780815369387Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2019Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.50w x 0.50d

Singing the Body Electric explores the relationship between the human voice and technology, offering startling insights into the ways in which technological mediation affects our understanding of the voice, and more generally, the human body. From the phonautograph to magnetic tape and now to...

Pro Tools for Music Production is a definitive guide to the system for new and professional users. Extensively illustrated in colour and packed with time saving hints and tips, you will want to keep to hand as a constant source of information. The book...

Whether you're a pro or an amateur, a musician or into multimedia, you can't afford to guess about audio wiring. The Audio Wiring Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide that explains exactly what you need to know. No matter the size of your wiring...

It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge, in the heart of Chicago's South Side, and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw Chicago blues of Hound...

The realm of music creation is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. What once felt like a distant future is now an undeniable present, rapidly reshaping every facet of the industry.How to Write and Self-Publish Music - Using AI is your essential guide through this exhilarating...

Machine Music: How AI is Transforming Music's Next Act explores the seismic impact of AI on the music industry - offering a sweeping yet grounded analysis of how AI and generative tools are reshaping what it means to make, monetize, and experience music.Author: Drew...

Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric, history, philosophy, archaeology--to demonstrate the enduring importance...

Music Production Pedagogy: Perspectives on Innovation in Music Production Education explores and disseminates innovative educational methods, curriculum designs, and conceptual underpinnings for learning environments that facilitate the delivery of high-quality tuition to an ever-growing pool of students in the field of music production.With chapters...

Grammy Award-winning music producer Sylvia Massy provides a visual tour through the fascinating world of vintage microphones with hundreds of original, full-color photographs. Based on one of the largest collections in the world, this book is for the appreciation of the art, technology, and...

On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant that the Library of Congress inducted it into the National Recording Registry. The band had just released Terrapin...

Behind every superstar--from Rihanna to Justin Bieber, SZA to Post Malone--there's an A&R executive shaping their sound, vision, and career. This is the definitive inside story of the people behind the music. The greatest music artists of the past century--those who've shaped the industry...

This book investigates the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Bratus explores the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers...

Coproduction is dedicated specifically to the study of an emerging field in music production musicology. It explores the limits of what this field might be, from the workings of a few individuals producing music together in the studio, to vast contributions of whole societies...

In Recording History, Peter Martlanduses a range of archival sources to trace the genesis and early development of the British record industry from1888 to 1931. A work of economic and cultural history that draws on a vast range of quantitative data, itsurveys the commercial...

Whether you're comping a vocal track, restoring an old recording, working with dialogue or sound effects for film, or imposing your own vision with mash-ups or remixes, audio editing is a key skill to successful sound production. Digital Audio Editing gives you the techniques,...

Indie Rock 101 is a clear, concise, all-in-one primer for beginning to mid-level musicians looking for the essential fundamentals behind running, recording and promoting their band. It's all the basics that can take years to collate from more specialized or technical books, magazines and...

Author: Kat Reinhert,Sarah GulishISBN-10: 0197761186ISBN-13: 9780197761182Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2025Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue--a type of anthropocentric statue that invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue might make--The Sculpted Ear rethinks this relationship in light of...

Author: Kat Reinhert,Sarah GulishISBN-10: 0197761194ISBN-13: 9780197761199Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2025Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d

Ready to make music but don't know where to start?This book doesn't just tell you what to do-it builds a full song with you, step-by-step, from a blank screen to a finished track. You'll follow along in real time with screenshots, chapter-based videos, and...

In an era where algorithms curate our music and artificial intelligence predicts our tastes, one man's story reminds us of the irreplaceable magic of human connection through music. "A Legend in British Radio: The Johnnie Walker Story" is not just another broadcasting biography -...

Unlock the future of music creation with AI Music Mastery-the ultimate step-by-step guide for beginners, artists, and producers ready to explore the power of artificial intelligence in songwriting.Written by AI music entrepreneur Avery Bennett, this groundbreaking book takes you inside the revolutionary world of...

"Hypnotic Music Secrets" is written by Grammy award-winning engineer/producer Khaliq Glover also known as Khaliq-O-Vision based on his vast experience of working with the world's top recording artists. Some of his clients include Michael Jackson, Prince, Herbie Hancock, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Marcus Miller,...

The Vintage Journal Camping with Victrola pocket journal features an illustration of two men camping. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing project, to-do list, or any occasion where a...

From the Fairlight CMI through MIDI to the digital audio workstations at the turn of the millennium, Modern Records, Maverick Methods examines a critical period in commercial popular music record production: the transformative digital age from the late 1970s until 2000. Drawing on a...

Cassette Culture: Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet Age takes a social history/analytical approach to the growth of the global homemade music/cassette culture network that sprouted and flourished from the post-punk era through the early 1990s. Jerry Kranitz explores how the...

(Berklee Guide). Improve the sound of your recordings. Mastering is the art of optimizing the sound of a recording, finding the ideal levels and tonal quality, and addressing all the details necessary to produce a professional quality distribution-ready master. This book discusses the essential...

Making Synthwave: How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre documents the journey of an online community in their formation of the synthwave genre.Taking an emic perspective that delivers a behind-the-scenes, access-all-areas telling of synthwave's story from the very beginning to the mid 2020s,...

The revised edition of Understanding Records explains the musical language of recording practice in a way any interested reader and student can easily understand. Drawing on readily available hit records produced since 1945, each section of this book explains a handful of core production...