Recording is a highly skilled craft combining art and science. It requires technical knowledge as well as musical understanding and critical listening ability. By learning these skills, you can capture a musical performance and reproduce it with quality sound for the enjoyment and inspiration of others.

Your recordings will become carefully tailored creations of which you can be proud. They will be a legacy that can bring pleasure to many people for years to come.

This book is intended as a hands-on, practical guide for beginning recording engineers, producers, musicians—anyone who wants to make better music recordings by understanding recording equipment and techniques. I hope to prepare the reader for work in a home studio, a small ...

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