Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1: Introduction THE PROFESSIONAL STUDIO ENVIRONMENT THE PROFESSIONAL RECORDING STUDIO THE CONTROL ROOM THE RETRO REVOLUTION THE CHANGING FACES OF THE MUSIC STUDIO BUSINESS THE PROJECT STUDIO MAKING THE PROJECT STUDIO PAY FOR ITSELF THE PORTABLE STUDIO THE iREVOLUTION LIVE/ON-LOCATION RECORDING: A DIFFERENT ANIMAL AUDIO FOR VIDEO AND FILM AUDIO FOR GAMES THE DJ THE TIMES, THEY''VE ALREADY CHANGED: MULTIMEDIA & THE WEB POWER TO THE PEOPLE! WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN THE ARTIST STUDIO MUSICIANS AND ARRANGERS THE PRODUCER THE ENGINEER ASSISTANT ENGINEER MAINTENANCE ENGINEER MASTERING ENGINEER STUDIO MANAGEMENT MUSIC LAW WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN THE INDUSTRY BEHIND THE SCENES CAREER DEVELOPMENT SELF-MOTIVATION NETWORKING: "SHOWING UP IS HUGE" THE RECORDING PROCESS THE RECORDING PROCESS PREPARATION THE POWER OF PREPARATION RECORDING OVERDUBBING OPTIONS IN OVERDUBBING MIXDOWN MASTERING PRODUCT MANUFACTURING AND/OR DOWNLOADABLE DISTRIBUTION MARKETING AND SALES CHAPTER 2: Sound and Hearing THE TRANSDUCER THE BASICS OF SOUND WAVEFORM CHARACTERISTICS Amplitude Frequency Frequency Response Velocity Wavelength Reflection of Sound Diffraction of Sound Phase Phase Shift Harmonic Content Envelope LOUDNESS LEVELS: THE DECIBEL LOGARITHMIC BASICS THE DECIBEL Sound-Pressure Level Voltage Power The "Simple" Heart of the Matter THE EAR THRESHOLD OF HEARING THRESHOLD OF FEELING THRESHOLD OF PAIN TAKING CARE OF YOUR HEARING PSYCHOACOUSTICS Auditory Perception Beats Combination Tones Masking Perception of Direction Perception of Space Direct Sound Early Reflections Reverberation CHAPTER 3: Studio Acoustics and Design STUDIO TYPES THE PROFESSIONAL RECORDING STUDIO THE AUDIO-FOR-VISUAL PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT THE AUDIO-FOR-GAMING PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT THE PROJECT STUDIO PRIMARY FACTORS GOVERNING STUDIO AND CONTROL ROOM ACOUSTICS ACOUSTIC ISOLATION Walls Floors Risers CEILINGS WINDOWS AND DOORS ISO-ROOMS AND ISO-BOOTHS Acoustic Partitions Noise Isolation within the Control Room SYMMETRY IN CONTROL ROOM DESIGN FREQUENCY BALANCE Reflections Absorption High-Frequency Absorption Low-Frequency Absorption ROOM REFLECTIONS AND ACOUSTIC REVERBERATION ACOUSTIC ECHO CHAMBERS CHAPTER 4: Microphones: Design and Application MICROPHONE DESIGN THE DYNAMIC MICROPHONE THE RIBBON MICROPHONE Further Developments in Ribbon Technology THE CONDENSER MICROPHONE Powering a Condenser Mic External Power Supply Phantom Power The Electret-condenser Microphone MICROPHONE CHARACTERISTICS DIRECTIONAL RESPONSE FREQUENCY RESPONSE TRANSIENT RESPONSE OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS Sensitivity Rating Equivalent Noise Rating Overload Characteristics Microphone Impedance BALANCED/UNBALANCED LINES MICROPHONE PREAMPS MICROPHONE TECHNIQUES OTHER MICROPHONE PICKUP ISSUES Low Frequency Rumble Proximity effect Popping Off-axis pickup PICKUP CHARACTERISTICS AS A FUNCTION OF WORKING DISTANCE Close Microphone Placement Leakage Recording Direct Distant Microphone Placement Room Microphone Placement Room Pickup in the studio The Boundary Effect "Reamping it" in the Mix Accent Microphone Placement STEREO AND IMMERSIVE MIC TECHNIQUES Spaced Pair X/Y M/S Decca Tree Surround Miking Techniques Surround Decca Tree MICROPHONE PLACEMENT TECHNIQUES BRASS INTRUMENTS Trumpet Trombone Tuba French Horn GUITAR Acoustic Guitar Miking Near the Sound Hole Room and Surround Guitar Miking The Electric Guitar Miking the Guitar Amp Recording Direct The Electric Bass Guitar KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Grand Piano Separation Upright Piano Electronic Keyboard Instruments PERCUSSION Drum Set Miking the Drum Set Kick Drum Snare Drum Overheads Rack-Toms Floor-Tom Hi-Hat TUNED PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS Congas and Hand Drums Xylophone, Vibraphone and Marimba STRINGED INSTRUMENTS Violin and Viola Cello Double Bass VOICE Mic Tools for the Voice WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS Clarinet Flute Saxophone HARMONICA MICROPHONE SELECTION SHURE SM57 TELEFUNKEN M81 AKG D112 ROYER LABS R-121 BEYERDYNAMIC M-160 AEA A440 SHURE PGA181 AKG C214 NEUMANN TLM102 ADK Z-251 TOWNSEND LABS SPHERE L22(tm) TELEFUNKEN U47, C12 AND ELA M251E CHAPTER 5: The Analog Tape Recorder TO COMMIT OR NOT TO COMMIT IT TO TAPE? MAGNETIC RECORDING AND ITS MEDIA THE PROFESSIONAL ANALOG ATR The Tape Transport The Magnetic Tape Head Equalization Bias Current Monitoring Modes TO PUNCH OR NOT TO PUNCH TAPE, TAPE SPEED AND HEAD CONFIGURATIONS Print-Through Analog Tape Noise Cleanliness Degaussing EDITING MAGNETIC TAPE BACKUP AND ARCHIVE STRATEGIES Backing Up Your Analog Project Archive Strategies C.L.A.S.P. TAPE EMULATION PLUG-INS CHAPTER 6: Digital Audio Technology THE LANGUAGE OF DIGITAL DIGITAL BASICS Sampling Quantization THE DEVIL''S IN THE DETAILS The Nyquist Theorem Oversampling Signal-to-Error Ratio Dither Fixed- vs. Floating-Point Processing THE DIGITAL RECORDING/REPRODUCTION PROCESS THE RECORDING PROCESS THE PLAYBACK PROCESS SOUNDFILE BASICS SOUNDFILE SAMPLE RATES SOUNDFILE BIT DEPTHS PROFESSIONAL SOUNDFILE FORMATS REGARDING DIGITAL AUDIO LEVELS DIGITAL AUDIO TRANSMISSION AES/EBU S/PDIF SCMS MADI ADAT LIGHTPIPE TDIF SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION WHAT IS JITTER? WORDCLOCK CHAPTER 7: The Digital Audio Workstation INTEGRATION NOW . INTEGRATION FOREVER! DAW HARDWARE THE DESKTOP COMPUTER THE LAPTOP COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTIVITY USB FIREWIRE THUNDERBOLT AUDIO OVER ETHERNET THE AUDIO INTERFACE AUDIO DRIVER PROTOCOLS LATENCY NEED ADDITIONAL I/O? DAW CONTROLLERS HARDWARE CONTROLLERS INSTRUMENT CONTROLLERS TOUCH CONTROLLERS LARGE-SCALE CONTROLLERS SOUND FILE FORMATS SOUNDFILE SAMPLE AND BIT RATES SOUNDFILE INTERCHANGE AND COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN DAWS DAW SOFTWARE SOUND RECORDING AND EDITING FIXING SOUND WITH A SONIC SCALPEL COMPING MIDI SEQUENCING AND SCORING SUPPORT FOR VIDEO AND PICTURE SYNC REAL-TIME, ON-SCREEN MIXING DSP EFFECTS DSP PLUG-INS Accelerator Processing Systems Fun with Effects Equalization Dynamics Delay Pitch and Time Change REWIRE MIXDOWN AND EFFECTS AUTOMATION EXPORTING A FINAL MIXDOWN TO FILE POWER TO THE PROCESSOR .
UHHH, PEOPLE! GET A COMPUTER THAT''S POWERFUL ENOUGH MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH FAST MEMORY KEEP YOUR PRODUCTION MEDIA SEPARATE UPDATE YOUR DRIVERS . WITH CAUTION! GOING (AT LEAST) DUAL MONITOR KEEPING YOUR COMPUTER QUIET BACKUP, ARCHIVE AND NETWORKING STRATEGIES Computer Networking SESSION DOCUMENTATION Documenting Within the DAW Make Documentation Directories ACCESSORIES AND ACCESSORIZE IN CLOSING CHAPTER 8: Groove Tools and Techniques THE BASICS PITCH SHIFT ALGORYTHMS Warping BEAT SLICING AUDIO TO MIDI GROOVE HARDWARE GROOVE SOFTWARE LOOPING YOUR DAW LOOP-BASED AUDIO SOFTWARE ReWire Groove and loop-based plug-ins Drum and drum loop plug-ins PULLING LOOPS INTO A DAW SESSION GROOVE CONTROLLERS DJ SOFTWARE OBTAINING LOOP FILES FROM THE GREAT DIGITAL WELLSPRING CHAPTER 9: MIDI and Electronic Music Technology THE POWER OF MIDI MIDI PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS WHAT IS MIDI? WHAT MIDI ISN''T SYSTEM INTERCONNECTIONS THE MIDI CABLE MIDI Phantom Power Wireless MIDI MIDI JACKS MIDI Echo TYPICAL CONFIGURATIONS The daisy chain The Multiport Network EXPLORING THE SPEC THE MIDI MESSAGE MIDI channels MIDI modes Channel Voice Messages EXPLANATION OF CONTROLLER ID PARAMETERS SYSTEM MESSAGES MIDI AND THE COMPUTER CONNECTING TO THE PERIPHERAL WORLD The MIDI Interface ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS INSIDE THE TOYS Instrument and Systems Plug-Ins KEYBOARDS The Synth SAMPLERS Sample Libraries and DIY Sampling THE MIDI KEYBOARD.