Live Audio The Art of Mixing a Show

Live Audio: The Art of Mixing a Show
English | 256 pages | F-al-Pr-s | 2011 | ISBN: 0240816048 | PDF | 6,7 MB

A live sound engineer's world revolves around the venue. Whether you find yourself working in a cozy club or an expansive concert arena, every location has challenges. It takes more than plugging in a few amplifiers and turning up the volume full blast to get the job done. Experience and ingenuity are needed to ensure that the band's sound is always at its best.

Live Audio is a practical, hands-on, "in the trenches" guide to mixing and live sound from an author with years of professional experience. Combining a lively writing style and real-world examples with essential details covering the technical and practical aspects of working a live show, Live Audio gives you a real-world look into working a live venue.
Learn the technical, practical, and political aspects of the job:
Choosing the right equipment
Being creative with the tools you are given
Letting your mixes become more instinctual
Understand the important elements of live mixing
Working with the band
Live Audio features:
An author with extensive in-the-trenches experience with big name artists
A practical, hands-on approach to mixing live sound, including real world examples
Covers the most up to date equipment, including modern digital conso

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The Mastering Engineer's Handbook The Audio Mastering Handbook

Book Description

This completely updated edition of the bestselling Mastering Engineer’s Handbook provides a thorough exploration of the mastering process for virtually any kind of audio program, utilizing insights from the world’s top mastering engineers. The book is a treasure-trove of knowledge, with an overview of the history, tools, and philosophy behind mastering as well as complete reference information for all audio delivery formats in use today. Peek inside a top-flight mastering house and see how their methods can now be yours. Explore the secrets of making hot masters, the rules of compression and frequency balancing, and how to mix with mastering in mind. Investigate how optical discs, such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and beyond, work and how they’re made. Discover the trick to making great-sounding MP3s and streaming audio. Examine multichannel surround mastering for film and television. You’ll even relive mastering history with a separate chapter about mastering for vinyl and how records are pressed. Throughout the book, legendary mastering engineers share experiences, tips, and tricks with you through every step of the process. The final section of the book features interviews with mastering giants such as Bernie Grundman, Bob Ludwig, Glenn Meadows, Doug Sax, and more.

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