Culled from 10 years of the Electronic Musician, Remix, and EQ magazines' archives, the articles in Electronic Musician Presents the Recording Secrets Behind 50 Great Albums will enlighten readers about the recording and songwriting techniques that helped create 50 great albums, spanning as far back as 1967 and as recent as 2011, revealing the methodology of numerous talented artists, producers, and engineers. Ranging from such seminal classics...

Recording sessions once meant coordinating a number of elements. Musicians, equipment and schedules were only the tip of the iceberg. There was also the task of finding and booking an available room that met your production needs. On top all this, there was considerable cost to making recordings, most of which never saw release. It was often a frustrating and stressful experience, ultimately costing friendships and resources. For many the creative...

Volume 1 of this three part series focuses on private and in-house studios and Recording Architecture's built output from 1987 to 1996 with technical chapters covering work stages A to D (including details of sound isolation and acoustic treatment). This second volume concentrates on commercial recording studios (including case studies of the legendary Lansdowne, CTS, Maison Rouge and Konk), mastering and cutting rooms and the years 1997 to 2002 together...

Joe Meek's Bold Techniques updates the 2001 print edition, and features a new Introduction, an additional chapter, and a newly restored and remastered version of Meek's legendary 1959 stereo album about life on the Moon, I Hear a New World. Joe Meek was an iconoclastic British recording innovator who was also, among other things, a paranoid schizophrenic homosexual speed freak who believed he was in psychic communication with Buddy Holly and who...

RA:The Book - The Recording Architecture Book of Studio Design was first published as a single, hardcover volume in 2011 and which has sold in over fifty countries to critical acclaim. A necessarily large format dictated by the detailed drawings it contained, RA:The Book was unavoidably heavy and costly to produce and ship. This iBook version is the first of three stand alone volumes which will hopefully make this essential guide to recording studio...

Pro Tools is everywhere, and whether you're new to Pro Tools or an experienced user, you will find Avid's latest release of PT9 to be a powerful production workstation. In Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools, multi-platinum engineer/producer Glenn Lorbecki shows you step by step how to achieve your best mixes using Avid's award-winning software. This complete guide to audio engines and delay compensation will unlock the full potential of PT as a professional...

Power Tools for Studio One 2 is an introduction to the newest and one of the most interesting Digital Audio Workstation programs: PreSonus Studio One. Created by PreSonus in partnership with the design and programming team that created Nuendo and parts of Cubase, Studio One has quickly gained popularity since its release for its ease of use, workflow orientation, and great sound. One of the few major DAWs available for both Windows and Mac OS, Studio...

In his first book, Desktop Mastering, Steve Turnidge unveiled his unique approach to mastering in the box, all the while providing glimpses of his mind-set and resulting workflow. Now, in Beyond Mastering, Turnidge pulls back the veil to give a tour of the physics and philosophy driving the mastering engineer, and the internal state required for happiness and success. By definition, universal truths can be expressed in any medium. In this book,...

Electronics Concepts, Labs, and Projects introduces concepts, techniques, and tools needed for productive growth in the fields of audio, video, and multimedia recording. It includes essential theory relating to electronics principles specific to the audio world, as well as practical lessons on soldering, how to use a digital multimeter for testing audio gear and cables, and how to use an oscilloscope and function generator to diagnose circuits. Also...

¿QUÉ OCURRE CUANDO TODO UNA GENERACIÓN COMETE EL MISMO CRIMEN? "Cómo dejamos de pagar por la música" documenta por primera vez uno de los fenómenos clave de la cultura contemporánea: la debacle de la industria musical tal y como la conocíamos, y la irrupción de la cultura digital, la piratería y los archivos de audio MP3 como vehículo del nuevo consumo de la música. Tras años de investigación, Stephen Witt construye un fascinante relato...