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There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure-- they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook, " but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every seven seconds is the rule. Painstakingly crafted to tweak the brain's delight in melody, rhythm, and repetition, these songs are highly processed products. Like snack-food engineers,...
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The included online media are additional color illustrations drawn by Massy; to access, go to halleonard.com/mylibrary and use the unique code printed on the first page of the text.
It's time to unlearn the safe, plain-vanilla recording techniques you've been using all these years! Massey and Johnson introduce you to music industry professionals who discarded fixed notions of how music should be recorded, and created sounds and effects that made...
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In this book, the third in the Zen and the Art Of series, Mixerman distills the inescapable technical realities of recording down to understandable and practical terms. Whether musician or self-taught recordist, whether at home or in a full-blown studio complex, you'll discover a definitive blueprint for recording within the current realities of the business, without ever losing focus on the core consideration--the music itself.
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"Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices, and Tools is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing - covering the entire mixing process, from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques. Packed full of photos, graphs, diagrams, and audio samples, it teaches the importance of a mixing vision, how to craft and evaluate your mix, and then take it a step further. Mixing Audio describes the theory, the tools, and how these are put into...
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Discover how to achieve commercial-grade recordings, even in the smallest studios, by applying power-user techniques from the world''s most successful producers. Recording Secrets for the Small Studio is an intensive training course specifically designed for small-studio enthusiasts who want a fast track to release-quality results. Based on the backroom strategies of more than 200 famous names, this thorough and down-to-earth guide leads you through...
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The Hal Leonard Recording Method is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in learning the basics of recording audio for hip-hop, pop, EDM, and more. Veteran studio engineer and author Jake Johnson takes you through the fundamentals of audio recording, from gear and setup through mixing and mastering, sharing invaluable tips and guideposts along the way. Also features audio demonstration tracks and video tutorials! It covers: the physics of...
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Written by Darryl Swann, an acclaimed instructor at several major music schools, this book puts incredibly sophisticated knowledge about songwriting, producing and recording into plain, everyday language. Included are stories, metaphors, photos, illustrations, and examples that are sure to educate as well as entertain.
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"Josh Bess provides a concise and accessible guide to music production and the role of a producer, breaking it down into core concepts, approaches, and methods essential to any piece of recorded music regardless of style or genre. Music Production Methods will help producers troubleshoot workflows and ultimately create better music"--
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"The revised edition of Understanding Records explains the musical language of recording practice in a way any interested reader and student can easily 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, elucidates how those techniques work, what they sound like, how they function musically, where...
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