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UNDERSTANDING AND CRAFTING THE MIX
Understanding and Crafting the Mix
The Art of Recording
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Second Edition

By
William Moylan, Chairperson, Department of Music at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

Description
Understanding and Crafting the Mix gives you clear and systematic methods for identifying, evaluating, and shaping the artistic elements in music and audio recording. The exercises throughout help you to develop critical listening and evaluating skills and gain greater control over the quality of your recordings. William Moylan takes an inside look into a range of popular music, including recordings by The Beatles, offering you insights into making meaningful sound judgements during recording. Sample production sequences and descriptions of the recordist?s roles as composer, conductor and performer provides you with a clear view of the entire recording process. The foreword has graciously been provided by industry legend Rupert Neve. The book also includes an audio CD featuring exercises, reference materials, examples of mixes and sound qualities, and tracks and instructions for setting up and evaluating playback systems.

Audience
Recording engineers and producers, audio recordists, sound designers, film sound mixers, students

Contents
The Elements of Sound and Audio Recording The Aesthetic and Artistic Elements of Sound in Audio Recordings The Musical Message and the Listener Listening and Evaluating Sound for the Audio Professional A System for Evaluating Sound Evaluating Pitch in Audio and Music Recordings Evaluating Loudness in Audio and Music Recordings Evaluating Sound Quality Evaluating the Spatial Elements of Reproduced Sound Complete Evaluations and Understanding Observations Bringing Artistic Judgment to the Recording Process The Aesthetics of Recording Production Preliminary Stages: Defining the Materials of the Project Capturing, Shaping, and Creating the Performance The Final Artistic Processes and an Overview of Music Production Sequences

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 424 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80755-3
ISBN-10: 0-240-80755-3
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS

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