The Mastering Engineer's Handbook 4th Edition

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Give your music the benefit of the expertise you'll find with The Mastering Engineer’s Handbook, Fourth Edition. The book wraps up with insightful interviews with the top engineers in the field, including George Massenburg, Allen Sides, Bruce Swedien, Elliot Scheiner, Andy Johns, Nathanial Kunkel, and several others. There’s quite a bit that goes on in Pro Tools but it’s more about shaping things before they get out into the console.

And most importantly, you can tell that the author put a lot of thought into how the book would be made. Artists like Van Morrison were more album oriented so what they did was more oriented towards album radio, so it would be hard for me to determine what was a huge hit singles-wise.This handbook has been designed to assist Engineer Obviously there are no rules when recording, but this will help you see some of the basic setups for recording literally ANYTHING! On rare occasion if you run into real trouble, maybe you can get away with using a bunch of EQ, but you can fiddle for days making something that was wrong in the first place just different.

I always need a great plate like an EMT 140 and a short 25 to 32 ms delay just in back of the vocal.

Then devote an entire chapter to each person and you have a bit of essential reading for anyone with their eyes on the industry. Since I have owned and operated a recording studio, and worked in many others over the years, I find the advice and information in this book invaluable for my daily projects. With drum sounds, even though where you put the mics is reasonably important, it’s the way you make the drums sound in the room. In particular, the way the author described Groove is not something I have encountered elsewhere and it's going to be something I implement in my own music.

Elliot Scheiner: I went back and forth, but at that point the office knew that I could do some small dates so they started throwing me voice-overs for radio and TV commercials.That was a 3M tape machine which was originally designed to do video so it had about a 9 inch gap between the heads as opposed to the 2 1/4″ gap on a Studer or Ampex.

It's amazing--you can read about how a famous engineer mixed the strings on a whitney houston album (as in, how he panned the strings, the amount of delay added to make it stereo, the model of reverb tank used, the specific compressor added to the mix buss), and then you can listen to the song and actually hear what he's talking about! Done right, the team should feel ownership of the outcome and acquire new skills to, hopefully, mediate similar outcomes by themselves in the future. e. the distance of the microphones to the instruments should not be too close if you wanted to get anything with tremendous depth.Bobby definitely provides deep insights into mixing after picking the brains of some of the most successful engineers, but if you're looking for a solid framework on which to build you mixing skills, there are other books to read. In this third edition, all the existing data has been updated or re-arranged for greater clarity and much new matter has been added to provide an even more comprehensive book, indispensable to the expert and beginner alike.