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You've recently purchased Cubase. You're ready to set up your home recording studio and finally produce that album you've been talking about. Now what? Your Cubase Studio provides a complete guide to setting up your digital recording studio with Cubase so you can start recording music right away. It starts with a general introduction to Cubase and digital recording, optimizing your computer to get the best sound, purchasing the right equipment that suits your budget, and the basics of acoustics....

For users of Pro Tools who want to take their skills to the next level, this CSi Master is the perfect learning companion. Updated for Pro Tools 6.7, this interactive CD-ROM gives users the hands-on tips they need to deepen their knowledge of this powerful software. A Pro Tools pro walks users through every major topic, including Setup, Project Management, Recording, Editing, Arranging, Mixing, Processing, Virtual Instruments, Synchronization, Advanced Uses, and Tips. The CSi movie tutorials inc...

"How pleasant, to lie on the beach and listen to the latest fox-trots played by the world's liveliest dance bands, or to some popular artists singing your favourite melodies..." So ran the publicity for the very latest in sophisticated and technical innovation: the His Master's Voice Portable Gramophone, a new luxury which not only promised "sunny hours" but which was also a tremendous fashion statement and status symbol. Dave Cooper explains the birth of the EMI label, and how the His Master's...

Rough Trade is practically a byword for the history of independent music over the last thirty years. The Rough Trade Story: Document and Eyewitness tells the story from the inside of a phenomenally influential record label, through the voices of Geoff Travis, Jarvis Cocker, Robert Wyatt, Green Gartside and many many more. From the early records of Cabaret Voltaire, Kleenex and the Swell Maps, through to groundbreaking releases by The Fall, The Smiths and Scritti Pollitti, on through the collapse...

(Music Pro Guide Books & DVDs). As a musician, one of the challenges you struggle with is how to keep track of all the receipts for road-related expenses and earnings. The idea of having to face the mountain of receipts at tax time is terrifying. There has to be a better way. There is. Enter all receipts in the Musician's Money Book (MMB) log envelope gas, food, hotels, equipment rentals, and venue contracts. Then simply fill in the "logbook" printed on each MMB log envelope, seal it, and pu...

Equalization is one of the most important signal processors - perhaps the most important signal processor - for mixing and mastering. This book goes beyond explaining equalization to giving essential tips on how to use equalization to make better music. Written in a clear, practical, non-intimidating style, topics include: - Equalizer parameters - When to use different equalizer responses - Linear vs. non-linear phase EQ - Plug-in formats, mid/side equalization - Typical equalizer controls - Rea...

If you're a sound operator, you know that regardless of the musical genre or venue, high-quality audio is imperative to your and the artist's success. Any live act must sound great to be well received by today's increasingly demanding audiences. Fully revised and updated, The Ultimate Live Sound Operator's Handbook focuses on each aspect of live sound operation in a way that is straightforward and easy to understand-from basic system and acoustic considerations to miking, mixing, and recording...

Audio Production Tips: Getting the Sound Right at the Source provides practical and accessible information detailing the production processes for recording today's bands. By demonstrating how to "get the sound right at the source," author Peter Dowsett lays the appropriate framework to discuss the technical requirements of optimizing the sound of a source. Through its coverage of critical listening, pre-production, arrangement, drum tuning, gain staging and many other areas of music production,...

With Culture in Action the arts are brought to life! The varied titles in the Culture in Action series build up into a comprehensive library from which readers can choose their favourite arts topics. Each book contains activities with easy-to-follow instructions.

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity is shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace that favors whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, and fixed gender identities. But musicians from Nicki Minaj to Future to Rae Sremmurd deploy queerness and sonic blackness as they imagine different ways of being human. Building on the work of...

Master the basics from first principles: the physics of sound, principles of hearing etc, then progress onward to fundamental digital principles, conversion, compression and coding and then onto transmission, digital audio workstations, DAT and optical disks. Get up to speed with how digital audio is used within DVD, Digital Audio Broadcasting, networked audio and MPEG transport streams. All of the key technologies are here: compression, DAT, DAB, DVD, SACD, oversampling, noise shaping and error...