Berklee Vocal Production and Recording Book with Online Audio by Jeannie Gagne and Prince Charles Alexander
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(Berklee Guide). Produce professional-grade vocal tracks! This book guides you through the vocal production process, looking at how to coach singers, how to use sound processing tools and techniques, and how to add various types of vocals to a track in order to produce expressive, professional-sounding recordings. You will learn to coach singers to use effective vocal skills and good microphone technique, helping them to create compelling performances. On the engineering side, you will learn the language and tool sets used to control your vocals, from microphones to sound processing plug-ins, such as reverbs, delays, compressors, automatic tuning, manual tuning, and others. You will also learn to arrange vocals, using lead lines, background tracks, rap, and spoken elements, making all of these elements sit in the mix to create a polished sound and tell a compelling story. Whatever tools you use, and whatever style of music you create, these techniques will lead you to better sounding tracks. These vocal techniques are time-tested by countless hit-song producers and recording engineers, as taught in the world-renowned vocal and audio production programs at Berklee College of Music. Included audio tracks and hit-song listening lists demonstrate all techniques. You will learn to: * Coach singers to perform with better sound, expression, and intonation. * Use tools for effective arranging and collaboration for all aspects of vocal production. * Evaluate, select, and position microphones to optimize their sound capture capabilities. * Understand and use the essential audio processing tools that are critical to professional-sounding vocal tracks. * Identify and create various types of vocal tracks: lead lines, background tracks, rap tracks, and others. * Create interesting contemporary vocal effects, such as vocal stacking, whisper tracks, creative use of processing tools (e.g., Auto-Tune robot voice), and others. * Solve common recording problems. * Create compelling recorded performances, with optimal sound quality, that best serve your inteded song story and style.
The Complete Beginner's Guide to Audio Plug-In Development
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Embarking on the journey to create your first audio plug-in can be both exciting and overwhelming, especially with the abundance of technical jargon involved. Where do you begin if you've never written a line of code? What knowledge do you need to get started?We've written this book to answer these questions and more! The Complete Beginner's Guide to Audio Plug-in Development is a step-by-step guide to creating your first audio plug-in, specifically crafted for those who are at the very beginning of their journey. Inside, you'll discover: An easy-to-understand introduction to the C++ programming language Integrated Development Environment (IDE) setup with dedicated sections for both Windows and Mac Getting started with the JUCE Framework An introduction to Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Creating your first audio plug-in Designing a custom user interface Basic debugging techniques How to release your finished plug-in to users ...and much more! Whether you're a musician, programmer, or simply curious, this guide will help you bring your audio plug-in ideas to life and start building today!
Mixing Heavy Music
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Finally, an easy-to-follow, no-nonsense guide for rock and metal engineers that will actually improve the sound of your heavy mixes. Producer / Mixer Jordan Valeriote (Rise Records, Tooth & Nail, Hopeless, Universal, etc) shares the most important things you need to learn about mixing so that you can get a firm grasp on the fundamentals without ending up more confused and frustrated.This isn't another boring book filled with confusing audio mumbo-jumbo. By providing the actual real-world techniques that professionals use every day, this book will give you the most effective tips for mixing heavy music that you can apply immediately to your own mixes. "I mix fast and I try to learn fast too. This book is written in the same spirit, with hopes that it will help you take your mixes to the next level in a short amount of time." -Jordan Valeriote
Distortion in Music Production
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Distortion in Music Production offers a range of valuable perspectives on how engineers and producers use distortion and colouration as production tools. Readers are provided with detailed and informed considerations on the use of non-linear signal processing, by authors working in a wide array of academic, creative, and professional contexts. Including comprehensive coverage of the process, as well as historical perspectives and future innovations, this book features interviews and contributions from academics and industry practitioners. Distortion in Music Production also explores ways in which music producers can implement the process in their work and how the effect can be used and abused through examination from technical, practical, and musicological perspectives. This text is one of the first to offer an extensive investigation of distortion in music production and constitutes essential reading for students and practitioners working in music production.
Generating Sound & Organizing Time
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Generating Sound & Organizing Time is about the astonishing things you can do - and the insights you can find - when you work at the atomic sample-by-sample structure of digital audio. Whether you are a musician, sound designer, composer, or an experimentalist interested in creating music and tools to generate and modulate audio, our aim is to reveal how working at the sample level is not only easier to reason about, but also far more open to demystify and unleash the immense possibilities of digital audio signal processing.
Mixing with Impact
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In Mixing with Impact: Learning to Make Musical Choices, Wessel Oltheten discusses the creative and technical concepts behind making a mix. Whether you're a dance producer in your home studio, a live mixer in a club, or an engineer in a big studio, the mindset is largely the same. The same goes for the questions you run into: where do you start? How do you deal with a context in which all the different parts affect each other? How do you avoid getting lost in technique? How do you direct your audience's attention? Why doesn't your mix sound as good as someone else's? How do you maintain your objectivity when you hear the same song a hundred times? How do your speakers affect your perception? What's the difference between one compressor and another? Following a clear structure, this book covers these and many other questions, bringing you closer and closer to answering the most important question of all: how do you tell a story with sound?
Mixing in Dolby Atmos - #3 Using Logic Pro
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The book is also available as a pdf file for $10 from the author's website DingDingMusic.com "Mixing in Dolby Atmos - #3 Using Logic Pro" is from the book series "Mixing in Dolby Atmos". In this book, the author explains how to mix in Dolby Atmos using Logic Pro v10.7. He covers both approaches, using Logic's integrated Dolby Atmos Renderer and the standalone Dolby Atmos Renderer app. In addition, the book covers a lot of details about panning and the signal routing in Logic Pro (especially with multichannel audio) with many diagrams and graphics not found anywhere else. What are Graphically Enhanced Manuals (GEM)? They are a different type of manual with a visual approach that helps you UNDERSTAND a program, not just LEARN it. No need to read through 500 pages of dry text explanations. Rich graphics and diagrams help you to get that "aha" effect and make it easy to comprehend difficult concepts. The Graphically Enhanced Manuals help you master a program much faster with a much deeper understanding of concepts, features, and workflows in a very intuitive way that is easy to understand. Testimonials: Readers love this unique way of learning applications no matter how easy or complicated the app might be. Here are some responses from satisfied customers: "I wish all the manuals on software were like yours!" - Giovanni C. "You have the gift of making difficult concepts understandable" - William B. "Your style is the most informative and clear I have ever seen" - Mark D. "Great stuff Edgar! I bought your other Logic GEM books and love em..." - freeform "Thank you so much for your fantastic guides; I've learned so much!" - Brandon B. "I love your manuals." - Eli. "Love your writing!" - Magnus N "Your book is awesome" - Geoff S. "I am really impressed by the quality and the user-friendliness of the book" - Giovanni "I cannot praise you enough, you are great at this" - Scot C. "Thanks for a fantastic series of books - just what the doctor ordered." - Peter W. "Many thanks for the effort you put into these books. A true gem". - Alan M
The music producer's guide to polymeter and polyrhythm
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Music and Technology: a Very Short Introduction
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Mark Katz surveys the age-old interrelationship between music and technology, from prehistoric musical instruments to today's digital playback devices.This Very Short Introduction takes an expansive and inclusive approach meant to broaden and challenge traditional views of music and technology. In its most common use, "music technology" tends to evoke images of twentieth and twenty-first century electronic devices: synthesizers, recording equipment, music notation software, and the like. This volume, however, treats all tools used to create, store, reproduce, and transmit music - new or old, electronic or not - as technologies worthy of investigation. All musical instruments can be considered technologies. The modern piano, for example, is a marvel of keys, hammers, strings, pedals, dampers, and jacks; just the sound-producing mechanism, or action, on a piano has more than 50 different parts. In this broad view, technology in music encompasses instruments, whether acoustic, electric or electronic; engraving and printing; sound recording and playback; broadcasting; software; and much more. Mark Katz challenges the view that technology is unnatural, something external to music. It was sometimes said in the early twentieth century that so-called mechanical music (especially player pianos and phonographs) was a menace to "real" music; alternatively, technology can be freighted with utopian hopes and desires, as happens today with music streaming platforms like Spotify. Positive or negative, these views assume that technology is something that acts upon music; by contrast, this volume characterizes technology as an integral part of all musical activity and portrays traditional instruments and electronic machines as equally technological.