<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi,</font><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This is my first post to this list, and I'm trying to help rather than asking questions. This must be a first!</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">By far the best book - the bible if you want - on working with digital audio is Mastering Audio by Bob Katz (1). It's written for mastering engineers, but the concepts it covers (and there's a lot of them!) are equally valid for mix engineers. It could do with a new edition, however, and the equipment it discusses is mostly way out of the budget of most home studio engineers.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It also doesn't cover recording. To be honest, home studios setups are each so unique it would be pointless to write a general book on the subject. The manual for your interface and your DAW's documentation are your friends here.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For general recording techniques, like how to point microphones at things, it's more just a matter of practise, listening, and experimenting. Don't blow money on a book for this, because it's all subjective. Eg, one book will tell you to record an acoustic guitar by pointing a Fig-8 mic at the 12th fret, another one will tell you to point a cardioid behind the bridge and a dynamic at the fretboard, etc, etc... Having said that, I would recommend Joe Gilder's Home Studio Corner blog (2) and its archives, where he covers a lot of this stuff.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you don't understand what "Fig-8" and "cardioid" means (I'm assuming nothing here), they're mic polar patterns. I learned that kind of stuff from the Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook (3) but I wouldn't recommend it. It's for live engineers, and it's very dry. More of a manual, not fun to read. That kind of technical stuff I'm sure would be covered on Google, probably even on mic manufacturers' websites.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Master Handbook of Acoustics recommended previously is very dry as well. I'm the kind of audio nerd who enjoys that sort of thing, and every time I dip into it I find something new and fascinating, but it is very, very technical, even math-heavy in places. You have been warned.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(1) <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Audio-Science-Bob-Katz/dp/0240808371/">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Audio-Science-Bob-Katz/dp/0240808371/</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(2) <a href="http://www.homestudiocorner.com/">http://www.homestudiocorner.com/</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(3) <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Reinforcement-Handbook-Gary-Davis/dp/0881889008/">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-Reinforcement-Handbook-Gary-Davis/dp/0881889008/</a></font></div>
<div><br>Alan Russell<br><a href="mailto:ajrussellaudio@gmail.com" target="_blank">ajrussellaudio@gmail.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 January 2012 17:49, Moshe Werner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moshwe@gmail.com">moshwe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi Chris,<br><br>I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but let me say that I got a lot of useful information in the field of recording acoustics (and acoustics at all) from the "Master Handbook of Acoustics" by Elton Everest. It's not exactly a guide to starters but it's extremely valuable when you want to get deeper knowledge of what you're doing.<br>
Hope this helps.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Moshe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Chris Metzler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmetzler@speakeasy.net" target="_blank">cmetzler@speakeasy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi. The thread from my previous questions, which arose from<br>
researching what audio interface to get, evolved into a<br>
possibly-off-topic Q&A on more general (that is, non-linux-related)<br>
audio and recording stuff. To avoid posting more off-topic stuff into<br>
the mailing list, I'm wondering if folks could offer their<br>
personal recommendations on educational sources (books, websites, etc.)<br>
about (home) recording, pro audio for relative neophytes, etc. I am<br>
familiar with the "PC Home Recording for Dummies" book and very little<br>
else. I've found other stuff by googling; but I'm curious as to what<br>
people here particularly recommend.<br>
<br>
Thanks much,<br>
<br>
-c<br>
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