Books on Studio Session Notes From Famous Bands?

[Robertt8]

I'm looking for a book, or books that have info on what real world recording studios do for technique and have the notes on projects that they've recorded.

I've heard there's some good ones out there with the Beatles and or famous bands like that. Does anyone have any suggestions?


Also, anyone looked at these:

* All You Need Is Ears by George Martin?
* Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios by William Clark
* Inside Tracks: A First-Hand History of Popular Music from the World's Greatest Record Producers and Engineers by Richard Buskin
* Behind the Glass: Top Record Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits
* The Mixing Engineer's Handbook by Bobby Owsinski
* The Art of Mixing: A Visual Guide to Recording, Engineering, and Production by David Gibson, George Petersen
* Modern Recording Techniques by David Miles Huber, Robert E. Runstein


Thanks!

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Don't know much about books on it, but the Classic Album series of DVDs from Eagle Rock Productions is, for the most part, absolutely fascinating!

 

[Robertt8]

I just updated my first question to contain the info from this one...

 

[sonic edwards]

areallygoodbook...

mixing with your mind - michael stavrou

 

[Robertt8]

Blue Bear...what's that you were talking about.

no one's looked at these other books?!

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Blue Bear...what's that you were talking about?

http://www.eaglevisionusa.com/html/music_d/music_d.html

 

[mrface2112]

BlueBear--two thumbs up on that!

i've got the DSotM one and it's fantastic. i wish they'd included a little more vintage footage of gilmour playing rather than him playing it modern-day (although, it's really easy to "cop the lick" with this stuff), but damn, just to hear and see how they did some of that stuff, and having it all come from Parsons himself......damn. Just the bit about the way they did the tape loop for Money (along with the other "legendary sounds") was WELL worth the $13 price of admission or what ever it was.

next on the list are Aja, the Band, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Number of the Beast. these things are some of the best things ever, and they cover some of the best albums ever. all they need are Rush and Neil Young ones (ooh, or a Triumph!), and my life will be complete.


cheers,
wade

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

The Steely Dan one is absolutely a MUST-HAVE.....

 

[Be Loveless]

Sorry I did'nt have enough time to plow through the site but it looks pretty interesting and I fucking love Steely Dan(not enough folks my age listening to them if you ask me) how much are these and more impotantly, are they worth it?

 

[Benreturns]

Summer of Love - George Martin

A song by song studio guide of how Sgt Pepper was recorded. for instance Sir george Tryin to figure out how to add more mellotron when track 1 was bass and drums, track 2 - vocals, track 3 guitar and maraca's etc... VERY insightfull full of the recording tech of the day. Also you end up apprecitaing engineer Geoff Emerick the engineer after to and there are lots of John quotes: "i want a mix of the two different versions of Strawberry Fields please George i like em both" "john thats nearly physically impossible!" "im sure you can fix that george..."