Practical Recording Techniques (7^th Ed.)
The Step-by-Step Approach to Professional Audio Recording

Practical Recording Techniques covers all aspects of recording, perfect for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts. Filled with tips and shortcuts, this hands-on, practical guide gives advice on equipping a home studio (whether low-budget or advanced) and suggestions for set-up, acoustics, effects, choosing mics and monitor speakers, and preventing hum. This best-selling guide also instructs how to mike instruments and vocals, judge recordings and improve them, work with MIDI and loops, do mastering, and put your music on the web. Two chapters cover live recording of classical and popular music.

New in the seventh edition:

• Complete update of all types of recording equipment, plug-ins, and recording software
• Increased focus on current industry and classroom trends like DAW signal flow and operation (during recording and mixdown), while still covering analog fundamentals
• Updated organization to focus and break up topics
• Updated tips on optimizing your computer for multitrack recording ? for both Windows and Mac
• New sections on streaming audio, mobile-device recording, live recording with digital consoles, and psychoacoustics
• Listen Online boxes highlight where audio samples on the website relate to chapter discussions
• Updated companion website with audio examples, articles, and suggested activities, plus expanded and more user-friendly links to the best sites for videos and articles, recording techniques, equipment, and other learning resources. Instructors can download figures from the book, the audio files, and a test bank

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: A Basic Overview of the Recording Process
CHAPTER 2: Sound and Psychoacoustics
CHAPTER 3: Studio Acoustics
CHAPTER 4: Signal Characteristics of Audio Devices
CHAPTER 5: Equipping Your Studio
CHAPTER 6: Monitoring
CHAPTER 7: Microphones
CHAPTER 8: Microphone Technique Basics
CHAPTER 9: Microphone Techniques for Instruments and Vocals
CHAPTER 10: Equalization (EQ)
CHAPTER 11: Effects and Signal Processors
CHAPTER 12: Mixers and Mixing Consoles
CHAPTER 13: Digital Audio
CHAPTER 14: Computer Recording
CHAPTER 15: DAW Signal Flow
CHAPTER 16: DAW Operation
CHAPTER 17: Judging Sound Quality with Critical Listening
CHAPTER 18: MIDI and Loops
CHAPTER 19: Session Procedures
CHAPTER 20: Mastering and CD Burning
CHAPTER 21: On-Location Recording of Popular Music
CHAPTER 22: On-Location Recording of Classical Music
CHAPTER 23: Web Audio, Streaming, and Online Collaboration
APPENDIX A: dB or Not dB
APPENDIX B: Optimizing Your Computer for Multitrack Recording
APPENDIX C: Impedance
APPENDIX D: Phantom Power Explained
APPENDIX E: Legacy Recording Devices
AUDIO GLOSSARY
INDEX

Bruce Bartlett has been a recording engineer, audio journalist, and microphone engineer (www.bartlettaudio.com) for over 30 years. He has written more than 1000 articles on audio topics for magazines and websites including ProSoundWeb, Live Sound International, L2Pnet, Recording, and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, as well as 9 books, including Recording Music on Location,2ndedition (Focal Press). A member of the Audio Engineering Society and SynAudCon, he holds a degree in physics and several patents on microphone design. He is also a musician and runs a commercial computer-based recording studio.

Jenny Bartlett is a freelance technical writer.