August 2014
Beginner
448 pages
16h 26m
English
Content preview from Recording Secrets for the Small Studio
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Now that some essential technical skills are under your belt, you should be in a position to start grappling with the most important and complex part of any music recording session: the performer. We’ll stick with line-level and digital signals for the moment, and make it our task this chapter to learn about capturing musical instruments which generate no acoustic sound of their own: synths, sampling workstations, laptops with live performance software, and scratch DJ turntables. And because these kinds of instruments are often recorded as overdubs, we’re also going to talk about the practicalities of monitoring the instrument against whatever backing track you have. (This chapter’s web resources include ...
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