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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827291303321

Autore

Hodgson Jay

Titolo

Understanding records : a field guide to recording practice / / Jay Hodgson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Continuum, 2010

ISBN

1-283-27166-4

9786613271662

1-4411-2409-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

781.49

Soggetti

Popular music - Production and direction

Popular music - Analysis, appreciation

Sound recordings - Production and direction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references. index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Tracking; 2. Signal Processing; 3. Mixing; 4. Mastering; Appendix: Post-Production; Works Consulted And Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is an accessible and comprehensive survey of core production and engineering techniques used in popular music since 1945. Recording Practice is musical practice, a technical but artistic affair. ""Understanding Records"" explains the musical language of Recording Practice in a way that any interested reader can understand. Drawing on readily available hit records produced since 1945, each section of this book explains a handful of core production and engineering techniques in chronological record-making sequence, elucidating how those techniques work, what they sound like, how they functi