Books in studio?

[thane1200]

I'm just curious what (if any) books you guys keep in your studio or recording space?

 

[mshilarious]

I'm just curious what (if any) books you guys keep in your studio or recording space?

Mastering Audio, Bob Katz
Modern Recording Techniques, David Miles Huber
The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams

Edit: I have the Digikey catalog too

 

[scrubs]

I have some textbooks and works of Dickens, Shakespeare, and TS Eliot. I call that bookshelf my literary "bass trap."

 

[bennychico11]

Recording Tips for Engineers by Tim Crich
Live Sound Reinforcement by Scott Hunter Stark (I have yet to actually read through it, but there's a ton of info it seems in there on everything.

then of course lots of audio magazines

 

[thane1200]

I have a couple........

"The World of DJs and the Turntable Culture" by Todd Souvignier
"What Makes Music Work" by Phillip Seyer, Allan Novick, and Paul Harmon
"MIDI for the Technophobe" by Paul White
"Recording Studio Technology, Maintenance, and Repair" by To McCartney
"Producing Great Sound For Digital Video" by Jay Rose

And for the life of my I cannot find my music history book anywhere.

 

[MadAudio]

"The Musician's Joke Book" by Nancy Groce. It's essential. My copy was given to me by the author (a Smithsonian coworker).

Modern Recording Techniques, David Miles Huber

I have a British book called "Microphones" (can't remember author's name) which is very comprehensive on the design & application of mics. Some of the math goes way over my head, but it's interesting nonetheless.

 

[timboZ]

TapeOp...................

 

[SonicAlbert]

Mastering Audio, Bob Katz
The Mixing Engineers Handbook, Bobby Owsinski
The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook, Davis & Jones
This Business of Music, Shemel & Krasilovsky
Wizoo Guide FX, Adam

Plus all my books on orchestration, counterpoint, and all my equipment manuals.

 

[jfrog]

The Steely Dan complete songbook

 

[notbradsohner]

right now...............

A.P. Physics- textbook
Calculus-textbook
Early American History-textbook
Walden -Thoreau
choke- palahniuk
15 issues of tape op
10 issues of EQ
20 issues of climbing
the davinci code-brown

 

[BigRay]

The New Stereo Soundbook...the most comprehensive microphone technique book I have ever read.

William Burroughs-Naked Lunch, Junkie,

A million little pieces--james frey

mastering audio-katz

 

[jeffree]

I'm looking around now at the 12" pile of music retail catalogues, magazines (Recording, Tape Op), and the manuals for all the fun stuff I use. Bookwise, unfortunately, I only have two to report: Home Recording for Musicians-Dummies by Jeff Strong (great for newbies), and Behind the Glass by Howard Massey. The latter book (Behind...) would make an outstanding holiday present for anyone who missed it. I found its interviews with dozens of pro engineers and producers to be interesting, helpful, and really inspiring. I left this book wanting to do more, with less, as so many killer past recording sessions have done.

Best,
J.

 

[timboZ]

The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook, Davis & Jones

That book it a tough read.

I also have the Yamaha Guide to Sound Systems For Worshib by Jon Eiche.

 

[gordone]

-The Waves plug-ins manuals
-Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness" (Garey/Johnson)
-Software Engineering (Pressman)
-Some Rilke poetry books
-A bunch of Java/C++/Unix books
-The latest Zzounds catalog
-Calculus/Linear Algebra/Discret Mathematics/Mathematical Modeling/blah blah blah

I find Computer Science and Mathematics textbooks make the best diffusers

 

[timboZ]

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I find Computer Science and Mathematics textbooks make the best diffusers

The computer science books for when working with digital audio and
math books for analog/tape.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

In the studio I only have a bunch of mags - Mix, Recording, Professional Sound (Canadian) out in a rack (for clients)....

In the office I have:

* Modern Recording Techniques - Huber & Runstein
* Mastering Audio - The Art and the Science - Bob Katz
* Behind The Glass - Howard Massey
* Total Recording - Dave Moulton
* Project Studios: A Professional Approach - Phillip Newell
* The Mixing Engineer's Handbook - Bobby Owsinski
* The Recording Engineer's Handbook - Bobby Owsinski
* The Art of Digital Audio - John Watkinson

As well as a bunch of others - Bruce Swedien's new book: Make Mine Music, the Music Business Handbook, the Musician's Handbook, Producing Hit Records, The Mixerman Diaries (a MUST-READ!), and others too numerous to mention....

 

[MadAudio]

The Mixerman Diaries (a MUST-READ!)

Wow, how could I have forgotten that one? I also have a copy in my studio.

 

[SonicAlbert]

That book it a tough read.

Yeah, but I only use the Yamaha Reinforcement Handbook as a reference. I just look up info when I need to, like it has a great section on making cables that includes wiring examples of all the major types. Reading cover to cover would be good nighttime reading for insomniacs!

Blue Bear, I'm going to pick up a few of those titles you have listed.

Timbox mentioned TapeOp, and while I don't have that in my studio I must say that there have been a few articles in TapeOp that have really changed my approach to my studio. In particular, the article with Michael Brauer led to me tearing my studio apart and rebuilding it according to his approach of buss mixing. A very influential article for me. TapeOp is an incredible magazine, and it's free!

 

[bruuen]

good topic, i plan on catching up on some reading myself...theres more motivation to read a hardcopy then scraps of info on the internet i find...

i plan on getting the mixing/mastering for dummies, and then moving on to bob katz mastering book once i learn a bit more.

i might also grab the waves book to as there plugin's are extremely useful and to get more out of them!

 

[thane1200]

* Mastering Audio - The Art and the Science - Bob Katz

I just saw that at the local Half Price Books.......would you recommend it? I should go see if its still there.

I also have a nifty little boook called "Home Recordinging Studios" or something like that......pretty basic stuff, but a good refresher now and then.