Sound Engineering Basics

By Andy Bramhill

This brand new, definitive guide to sound engineering is laid out as an easy to understand fully comprehensive manual covering a wide range of subjects as outlined below. It is aimed equally at the home studio owner (or would-be home studio owner) and the up and coming newly started professional. The book gives tips and advice on the professional production of all styles of music and is packed with tips and techniques accumulated along over 20 years of the authors experience in the field.

The author, Andy Bramhill has been working as a professional sound engineer for over 20 years and has recorded hundreds of albums in his career. He has also had a share of international tours as front of house engineer. Between recording albums and touring he also designed and imparted a series of hands on recording courses with induction courses and advanced level professional courses on studio engineering and music production.

The Book covers the following topics.

• Setting up your own home studio
  • The Rooms: Location and acoustic treatment
    
• Equipment
  • Computer or External recording device
  • Effects
  • Mikes
  • Cables
  • Mixing Desk
  • Amps
  • Speakers
  • Headphones
  • Headphone amp
    
• Hooking it all up
  • Cables
  • Digital Connections 
  • Wordclock
    
• The Recording Part
  • Sample Rate and Bitrate
  • General Production tips
  • Laying down tracks
  • The home studio
  • The professional studio
  • Describing sounds with words..  the engineers empathy
    
• Miking
  • Microphone Choice
  • Microphone Positioning
  • General Microphone Acoustics
  • How to mike individual Instruments (guidelines)
    
• Drum miking and mixing
  • Choice and positioning of mikes
  • Processing and Mixing the 'kit'
    
• Equalisation
  
  
• Effects
  • Time based
  • Dynamic
     
• Mixing
  
• Mastering
  
• CD Master Preparation for factory
  
• Live Engineering
  
• Live Recording
  
• Extras
  • Audio cleaning 
  • Legal Stuff - Get  a contract or DIY record contract
  • Sell your own - recording, publishing, promoting and selling

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