Basic Mastering (The Basic Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is extremely small, but still, it could have been shortened into a few concise paragraphs.
The first third of the book is a repetitious litany on how to splice tape, label boxes and use a DAT. It haphazardly hints at the numerous steps one most go through to prepare the audio for reproduction. Then states that if you're going to burn a Red book CD, none of this is necessary. Good then, let's skip it.
The second third is about how to cut and paste digital audio using editing software. If you've ever used audio software then you can skip this part too. Actually if you even have audio software, you're better off just playing around with it, so you should skip it also.
The last third is a glossary. Yes, an entire third of the book is an appendix. It gives the definition of many useful industry terms. For instance, STEREO, WAH-PEDAL, TRACK, and VOLT.
Example:
VOLT,
A unit for measuring electricity.
I would skip it.

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Further titles in this exciting new pocket sized series, designed to make music technology simple.

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Basic Mixers (Music Technology Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Paul White has written a small format, straightforward, up to date, no-nonsense book about mixing audio signals either in a studio environment or for live sound. Despite its diminutive size (this book will actually fitin any pocket), there is a lot of information presented in a logical andconcise manner, with illustrations, a table of contents and a helpful44-page glossary section at the end. It feels decidedly British in sentencestructure and spelling ("equaliser" instead of"equalizer" etc.) The lack of an index is almost unnoticed,because of the logical flow of information; the table of contents helps inzeroing in on the precise location of the information being sought out.Being a part-time home recording hobbyist, this book has clarified severalconcepts in mixing for me. For just a little more than the price of amagazine, I wholeheartedly recommend this 207 page book to anyoneinterested in mixing live or studio sounds. By the way 1) the title of thebook is actually "basic mixers" and 2) this is only one of aseries of books from the same author on several topics in modern audiorecording and production techniques (published in 1999-2000 by the BritishSound on sound magazine). I am seriously thinking about getting a couplemore of these guides...

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What are mixers? How do digital and analogue mixers work? How are they used in recording and live situations? It's all here, in simple terms.

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Basic Microphones (Music Technology Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book delivers what it promises. It would be of little or no use to a recording engineer of someone who already knows a lot about recording but that is not the target audience of this little tome. The target is people who want to learn more about microphones but who know little or nothing to begin with.

The book starts off with a little bit of basic information on sound and then turns to a discussion of different types of microphones. The pros and cons of each type are briefly reviewed. This is in terms of directionality and in terms of type of recording elements. From there, the book moves on to discussion of how best to mic different situations like vocals, strings, piano and drums. My one complaint is that there is nothing on wind instruments.

One peculiarity of this book is a result of it coming from Britain. That means that some terms may not be familiar to American readers. Condenser replaces capacitor and valve replaces tube. This should not cause any problem but it may throw some people at first.

For many people, this may well be the only book ever to be needed on the subject of microphones. At the very least, it is a good introduction at an excellent price.

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The experience of decades in a few pages: how microphones work, what the various types do, and how to use them in just about any musical situation.

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