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Intelligent Music Production
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Intelligent Music Production

by Brecht De Man, Ryan Stables, Joshua D. Reiss
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
7h 49m
English
Focal Press
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3

Understanding the Mix

“Like a book, a recording reduces the listener to the position of passive consumer.”

O. B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing Through the Skylight, Penguin, New York, 1989.

3.1 Fundamentals and Concepts

3.1.1 Terminology

The production chain for recorded and live music, from conception to consumption, consists of several stages of creative and technical processes. Compositions or improvisations materialize as acoustic vibrations, which are then captured, sculpted and rendered. Figure 3.1 shows a simplified depiction of such a music production chain.

Figure 3.1 Example of a music production chain in the case of a stereo ...

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