Music Production: Recording

FOREWORD

Soon after the author of this book and I met we both quickly realised that we shared the same passion and excitement for music and audio. Not the mad professor audio laboratory that is the mixing process, but the actual moment of audio creation, the recording process.

So how do we start in music recording? We have a drummer, sticks at the ready (silent!), guitarists have their first chord or note fretted, hand ready to strike strings, keyboard player fingers in chord shapes, ready to land on keys, vocalist, throat cleared thinking about the first note or perhaps a whole orchestra, silent, ready, watching for the conductor’s signal ...