Guerrilla Home Recording: How to Get Great Sound from Any Studio (No Matter How Weird or Cheap Your Gear Is)
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ISBN: 0879308346 / Publisher: Backbeat Books, December 2004
Coryat explains how to make great sounding recordings in the home studio using inexpensive gear. He breaks the recording process down into three simple dimensions of sound: dynamics, frequency content, and pan position. Sample topics include making noisy gear quiet; making instruments sound crisp and distinct in a mix; and getting the most out of a limited number of tracks or mixer channels. Coryat is a consulting editor for Bass Player magazine. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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(Book). Make your small home studio sound huge! Guerrilla Home Recording is a revolutionary approach to getting great sound in a home or project studio. Author Karl Coryat breaks down the process by showing how to think in terms of three simple "dimensions of sound," and then explains step by step how this can help you achieve amazingly clean recordings with maximum impact. Best of all, you don't need the latest pro gear to do it. You'll learn: how to make even the noisiest gear dead quiet * getting instruments to sound crisp and distinct in a mix * making drum programs and sequences sound like they were played live * getting the most out of a limited number of tracks or mixer channels * blending tracks together into a professional-sounding mix * fun projects and exercises to sharpen your ear for sound * and how to avoid the most common mistakes amateur recordists make.
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