APPENDIX 1

Music Studios and the Recording Process: An Overview

Throughout most of this book I make the assumption that you have a basic overview of what the music-production process entails. However, because I can’t rely on that, I wanted to lay out exactly what background knowledge I’m expecting of the reader, and in the most condensed form I can. (Health Warning: anyone with a strong allergic reaction to sweeping generalizations should top up their medication now!)

I’ve put important pieces of technical jargon in bold-face to make them stand out. It’s a fact of life that every engineer applies studio terminology slightly differently, so I hope that clarifying my own usage will help minimize confusion.

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