The Singer-Songwriter's Guide to Recording: in the Home Studio

Record songs in your own home studio! Today's smart singer-songwriter needs to be able to record high quality demo recordings. Whatever your budget, living arrangement, or technological aptitude, this book will help you acquire songwriter-appropriate home studio gear and use it effectively. You will understand the key concepts about how the recording process works, and how to get the best sound possible out of whatever equipment you own and whatever style of music you produce. This book makes recording easy - so you can spend your effeorts thinking about creatieve songwriting and performing, rather than struggling with technology.

CONTENIDO:

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The modern songwriter's studio

1. Home studio setup and gear
-Computer
-Recording software: digital audio workstations
-Microphone
-Audio interface
-Monitors/Speakers
-The room
-Minor gera
-Cables
-Microphone stands
-Mic pads
-Direct inject boxes
-Electricity control

2. The recording process
-Using your home studio
-Set up and go!
-Creating a mixdown
-Troubleshooting your audio setup
-Stages of recording
-Preproduction
-Production
-Tracking strategies
-Postproduction
-The home-studio production mindset

3. Recording live players
-Setting up a tracking session
-Types of microphones
-Auditioning microphones
-Recording vocals
-Recording guitar
-Recording keyboards
-Recording drums
-Recording other acoustic instruments
-Know your room

4. Daw session management
-Recording templates
-Click tracks
-Take sheet
-Busses
-Headphone mixes
-Submixes
-Track documentation
-Keyboard shortcuts

5. MIDI and virtual instruments
-MIDI loops
-Real-time vs. step-time production
-Buying MIDI files
-Virtual instrument setup
-MIDI hardware
-Synthesizers and samplers

6. Using loops in creative songwriting process
-MIDI loops
-Audio drum loops
-Where to find loops
-Working with oops
-Auditioning loops
-Layering loops
-Other loop generators
-A final thought about loops

7. Editing
-Cutting and pasting tracks
-Volume automation
-Comping tracks
-Track documentation
-Overdubbing
-Editing stray sounds
-Pitch correction
-Fixing timing
-Crossfades
-Arranging during mixing

8. Mixing
-Frequency range
-Panning
-Adding plug-ins
-Depth of field
-Compresion
-Grouping tracks
-Order of events
-Localized adjustments
-Reference tracks

9. Final steps: mastering and more
-Tools of mastering
-EQ and compression
-Loudness
-Mastering software
-Mastering speakers
-Song order
-Hiring a mastering engineer

Afterword

About the author
Index