Home Recording for Musicians by Craig Anderton

[VTgreen81]

This is the required text for my Intro to Technology in Music course which starts in a few weeks. Has anyone read it? If you could pick one book for newbies that you would call "the Bible" what would it be? I already have Paul White's "Home recording made easy". It didn't make it THAT easy.

 

[Rhythmsavant]

This is the required text for my Intro to Technology in Music course which starts in a few weeks. Has anyone read it? If you could pick one book for newbies that you would call "the Bible" what would it be? I already have Paul White's "Home recording made easy". It didn't make it THAT easy.

Ive got the Home Recording for Musicians...its been really helpful for me...its pretty much just about recording though ( go figure ) so im probably going to pick up The Mixing Engineers Handbook ( i think thats the title), i was browsing through a copy the other day at the book store and it seems to be as informative as HR for M but centered around mixing...

theres also The Mastering Engineers Handbook, but ill jump off that bridge when i come to it

 

[tjohnston]

Hell no... Home recording for musicians sucks. The book is vauge as hell. I think I remember plans for bass traps that are not even close. Also the book encourages the use of cheap fake toob stuff.

 

[VTgreen81]

Hell no... Home recording for musicians sucks.

What book for a newbie would you suggest that doesn't suck.

(Actually according to laws of physics, nothing sucks. Rather , things are pushed by atmospheric pressure. Even that shake from Mickey D's. What you have done is create a vacuum in your mouth and the straw. As the atmosphere pushes down on the shake it takes the path of least resistance, up the straw and into your mouth.)

Anyone else agree this book is being pushed?

 

[Beltrom]

I have a real early one, it's probably been rewritten a few times, but that one's good but not modern - quite the opposite of vague really. Craig Anderton seems to know what he's talking about most of the time, I wouldn't hesitate buying a book by him. If he was wrong about some basstraps (those are not in my book) - well, you can't be right all the time, and he's more electronics than acoustics.