Recording & Sound Books


Basic Live Sound (The Basic Series) Basic Live Sound has the answers for setting up equipment for live performance and DJ...	The Mastering Engineer's Handbook: The Audio Mastering Handbook, 2nd Edition This completely updated edition of the bestselling Mastering Engineer's Handbook provides a...	Assistant Engineer Handbook Sarah Jones presents a comprehensive guide to being an effective and creative assistant studio...	Small- Signal Audio Design Small- Signal Audio Design is an essential for audio equipment designers and engineers for one...	Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8: Create, Produce, Perform Learn how to create, produce and perform a whole new way; prepare to unlock the power of Live....



Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools Best Price: $1,200.82 I've been making electronic music in a project studio for several years. I am amazed at the...	Practical Physics; Molecular Physics & Sound Best Price: $19.99 The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in...	Sound and Recording, Fourth Edition: An Introduction (Music Technology) This popular and best-selling text introduces the principles of sound, perception, audio...	Audio Engineer's Reference Book, Second Edition Best Price: $73.18 An authoritative reference on all aspects of audio engineering and technology including basic...	Recording Studio Design, Second Edition Best Price: $32.38 Edward Tufte took a very dry and specialized subject--the presentation and interpretation of...



Sound Effects: Radio, TV and Film Best Price: $131.97 Provides the first comprehensive treatment of sound effects - their history, make-up, equipment,...	Practical Recording Techniques, Second Edition Best Price: $7.81 After seeing what other people have given 4 and 5 stars to, I definitely have to give Practical...	Concert Sound and Lighting Systems, Third Edition Best Price: $45.28 Overall this book gives a good overview into the field of concert lighting and sound. Much of...	Handbook for Sound Engineers, Fourth Edition Best Price: $100.97 very good book, a must have for all the people involved in the audio scene.	Recording Music on Location Replacement CD, Second Edition

The Remix Manual Best Price: $26.20 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) ...	Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers (Music in American Life) Best Price: $51.99 It has been a while coming but this book, the third by John Broven, is well worth the wait. ...	Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers (Music in American Life) Best Price: $27.27 I knew someting about this topic before I read this book , but I was not prepared for how...	The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music Best Price: $4.76 In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that ...	Complete Pro Tools Shortcuts (Softcover) Best Price: $2.11 Ever look through the pro tools shortcut list and ponder: "I THINK I know what that...

Guitar Shop -- Getting Your Sound Best Price: $3.99 How do your favorite guitarists get their sounds? Learn the setup secrets of the masters and...	The Secrets of House Music Production Best Price: $49.00 Just received this today and so far have read through about half of it. It assumes at least a...	A Musician's Guide to Pro Tools Best Price: $6.98 I've been using Pro Tools LE for a little over a year now, but am always willing to learn...	Moses Avalon's 100 Answers to 50 Questions on the Music Business (Music Pro Guides) Best Price: $10.79 For the first time, industry expert Moses Avalon, the author of truth-to-power tomes like...	Pro Tools: La guia completa de shortcuts / The Complete Pro Tools Shortcuts, 2nd Edition Best Price: $14.00 Newly expanded to cover the most recent updates of Pro Tools, this indispensable guide provides...

The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music (Library Edition) Best Price: $72.95 The son of a Vanderbilt heiress, John Hammond listened to jazz records with his parents'...	SONAR X1 Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Best Price: $28.99 As usual, Scott does a great job of helping bring out the small details that make a difference...	The Guitarist's Guide to Pro Tools Best Price: $19.79 Many guitarists are looking to get into the world of digital audio and recording but aren't...	Harmony for Computer Musicians Best Price: $20.81 This an excellent book for those seeking out a modern text on harmony that illustrates chordal...	Producing Music with Ableton Live (Guide Pro Guides) Best Price: $10.91 Start producing your own music from the ground up! Ableton Live is a groundbreaking program...

Movement Plus Rhymes, Songs And Singing Games Recordings	Home Recording Tips and Tricks: Strategies and Solutions for Your Home Studio Best Price: $10.50 108 pointers, hints and just plain good advice culled from the pages of Home Recording magazine....	Introduction to MIDI/Synthesis A clear and complete explanation of MIDI/synthesis and related technologies. This book covers...	SONAR 5 CSi Starter Best Price: $20.62 If you're a beginner looking for a new approach to mastering the basic features of SONAR 5,...	GarageBand '08 Power!: The Comprehensive Recording and Podcasting Guide Best Price: $15.83 My dilemma was that I had already purchased ILife 08 and already ILife 09 was on the shelves. I...

Creating Music Using Open Source Software Best Price: $22.79 Since open source software runs on any computer and tends to be less expensive than other...	Bootleg: The Rise & Fall of the Secret Recording History Best Price: $23.09 Bootlegs! To the vinyl aficionado, who thinks that music should be clear and concise, bootlegs...	Practical Recording 3: Cubase SX/SL (Book & CD ROM) (Practical Recording) Best Price: $12.00 The indispensable guide to these high-grade editions of the industry standard digital recording...	Practical Recording 5: Surround Sound Best Price: $7.71 For many years the exclusive preserve of cinemas, surround sound is currently the hottest topic...	Pro Tools for Music Production, Second Edition: Recording, Editing and Mixing Best Price: $22.00 Much bogusity and pomposity. The John Keane book is much better organized and written. Caveat...

Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer: A Practical Guide to Writing and Sequencing for the Studio Orchestra Best Price: $26.89 Thanks to Andrea Perjolo and Richard DeRosa. This book is extremely helpful to the computer...	Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook, Fifth Edition Best Price: $36.88 Doug Self is to Amplifier design what Jack Nicholson is to Movies ... a consummate expert. This...	Logic Pro 9: Audio and Music Production Best Price: $23.39 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Logic...	Art of Digital Audio Best Price: $128.00 Described as "the most comprehensive book on digital audio to date", it is widely...	An International History of the Recording Industry Best Price: $54.00 A comprehensive reference guide to the history of recording, this book combines the technical...

Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 9 Advanced Music Production Best Price: $43.96 As I've written here before, I'll qualify my review by saying I've used Logic in...	An Introduction to Music Technology Best Price: $39.98 I'm using Dan Hosken's book for my "Introduction to Music Technology" course...	Music Sound and Technology Best Price: $77.38 Since its publication in 1990, the first edition of Music, Sound and Technology has enjoyed...	Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines, and Money Best Price: $4.27 Playback is the first book to place the fascinating history of sound reproduction within its...	Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies) Best Price: $45.73 How did one of the great inventions of the 19th century? Thomas Edison's phonograph?...

Introducing Reason 4 Best Price: $12.99 I'm a total newbie to this stuff. I did try with Reason 3.0 and bought several books and...	Hip-Hop and Rap Drum Beats & Loops (Sound Library) Best Price: $15.68 Great for amateur recording musicians as well as professional recording studios, this pack...	Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale Best Price: $39.01 The price tag seems hefty for a standard-looking paperback, but Tim Mitchell's Sedition And...	Sequencing And Music Production Book 1 (Book & CD) (Alfred's Music Tech Series) Best Price: $10.47 This book is an excellent introduction to MIDI, sequencing, song arrangement, sampling, use of...	How to Start a Home-Based Recording Studio Business (Home-Based Business Series) Best Price: $4.99

Here, There and Everywhere Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age...	Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950 (Studies in Industry and Society) Best Price: $81.72 James Kraft, a historian at the University of Hawaii/Manoa, tackles a huge but underexplored...	Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience (Theory Out Of Bounds) Best Price: $70.47 As people from record collectors to file swappers know, the experience of music - making it,...	The Complete Singer-Songwriter: A Troubadour's Guide to Writing, Performing, Recording and Business Of all the paths available to today's musicians, the life of the singer-songwriter remains...	The Musician's Home Recording Handbook (Reference) This is the ideal handbook for musicians who want to make high-quality recordings at home. The...

Understanding Audio: Getting the Most Out of Your Project or Professional Recording Studio Explores the fundamentals of audio and acoustics that impact every stage of the music-making...	Mixing and Mastering with IK Multimedia T-RackS: The Official Guide, 1st Edition Mis espectativas no fueron superadas, esperaba mucho mucho más que dedicarse a hablar...	Hal Leonard Recording Method Vol.6 Mixing and Mastering BK/CD (v. 6) Best Price: $30.49 ####################################################################################################	How To Tune A Guitar Tuning is the process of manipulating the tuning pegs of a guitar so that each string rings at...	Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music Best Price: $7.23 A decade ago the vast majority of mainstream music was funneled through a handful of media...

Basic Mastering (The Basic Series) The ultimate aim of any recording project is the mass-production of music, whether on CD,...	Basic Rhythm Programming With today's hardware and software sequencers, it's possible for anyone recording music...	Composing with Finale, 1st Edition Finale offers all the notation tools required to craft virtually any composition. Unfortunately,...	Pro Tools for Music Production, Second Edition: Recording, Editing and Mixing Best Price: $22.00 Much bogusity and pomposity. The John Keane book is much better organized and written. Caveat...	Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer: A Practical Guide to Writing and Sequencing for the Studio Orchestra Best Price: $26.89 Thanks to Andrea Perjolo and Richard DeRosa. This book is extremely helpful to the computer...

Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook, Fifth Edition Best Price: $36.88 Doug Self is to Amplifier design what Jack Nicholson is to Movies ... a consummate expert. This...	Logic Pro 9: Audio and Music Production Best Price: $23.39 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Logic...	Art of Digital Audio Best Price: $128.00 Described as "the most comprehensive book on digital audio to date", it is widely...	An International History of the Recording Industry Best Price: $54.00 A comprehensive reference guide to the history of recording, this book combines the technical...	Apple Pro Training Series: Logic Pro 9 Advanced Music Production Best Price: $43.96 As I've written here before, I'll qualify my review by saying I've used Logic in...

An Introduction to Music Technology Best Price: $39.98 I'm using Dan Hosken's book for my "Introduction to Music Technology" course...	Music Sound and Technology Best Price: $77.38 Since its publication in 1990, the first edition of Music, Sound and Technology has enjoyed...	Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960 (Music Culture) Best Price: $16.46 I was prompted to write this response due to "jazzhermit"'s completely...	Basic Recorder Lessons: Omnibus Edition Best Price: $15.18 I initially started learning the soprano recorder using this book, then drifted away for awhile...	Quick Start: Cubase SX with CDROM (Quick Start (Music Sales)) Best Price: $12.59 If you have been fiddling around with Cubase for a couple of months and have struggled through...

Assistant Engineer Handbook: Gigs in the Recording Studio & Beyond Best Price: $7.95 Sarah Jones has definitely provided great insight into the "recording industry". With...	Sonar Insider Best Price: $6.99 I am a new user of Cakewalk Sonar 4 and found the Cakewalk users manual to be a little vague for...	Creative Sound Recording on a Budget Best Price: $10.00	Remix (Berklee in the Pocket) Best Price: $5.54 This handbook is great because it shows you the basics. It let me know all the equipment and...	Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio Best Price: $68.00 Just a quick note. I picked up the paperback version today and have thumbed through it,...

The Reel World: Scoring for Pictures Best Price: $40.95 Like many musicians, I have a great interest in film scores and, if it weren't so tough to...	The Tube Amp Book - Deluxe Revised Edition Book and Disk Package (Hardcover) Best Price: $29.65 I orderd this book because I had no idea about tube amps. I became interested because I recently...	Crash Course: MIDI Best Price: $10.01 Paul White, of Sound on Sound magazine, presents a unique book that promises to get you up and...	Electronic Music Volume 1 Best Price: $25.00 I can't really give this less than 3 stars simply because it has put in one place a LOT of...	Wagner Im Festspielhaus. Discography of the Bayreuth Festival. [2006]. Best Price: $29.95 John Hunt was born in Windsor and Graduated from University College London, in German language...

Music, the Brain, and Music Learning: Mental Representation and Changing Cortical Activation Patterns Through Learning : Taking Another Look at the Established Procedure for Scoring the ad Best Price: $12.00	Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPodTM and iTunesTM (3rd Edition) This is the eBook version of the printed book. Since the inception of iTunes, the iPod (the...	Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles Best Price: $12.87 Geoff Emerick was the recording engineer behind such seminal works as Revolver and Sgt. Pepper....	Building Valve Amplifiers If you actually intend to create, modify, restore or repair tube audio equipment, I would highly...	Network Technology for Digital Audio (Music Technology) Network Technology for Digital Audio examines the transfer of audio and other related data over...

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