Your Ableton Live Studio PDF 2010

English | 2010 | 336 pages | PDF | 11 MB

YOUR ABLETON LIVE STUDIO will show you step-by-step how to use Ableton Live as the central component of your home-based audio-production studio. What’s more, YOUR ABLETON LIVE STUDIO will help you create a mobile-based studio so you can take your music to the people. You’ll discover what you need to do and buy to create your Ableton Live studio in both scenarios. Once you have your studio’s computer in place, you’ve chosen the version of Live you want, and you’ve decided which audio interface will do your bidding, it’s time to fill in the rest of the essential hardware. You’ll look deeply into what kind of speakers you’ll use to listen to your productions as well as what headphones you should have. You’ll also learn about microphones, MIDI controllers, and the many little things that play a huge role such as cables, adapters, and much more. After your physical studio is set up, this book teaches you how to use Ableton Live to make and record music. Everything is covered, including Live’s interface from top to bottom, MIDI, assembling and launching clips, audio manipulation, editing, and mixing, Live’s built-in devices, automation, creating arrangements, exporting your production, ReWire, Max for Live, and much, much more.
You’ll even learn to set up a mobile studio and how to optimize Live and your computer for
live performance.

Sound System Engineering PDF

English | 2013 | 648 pages | PDF | 21 MB

An indispensable guide in the day-to-day work of designing sound systems. This accurate, complete, and concise tool is a necessary addition to the library of anyone involved in audio engineering. Sound Systems Engineering is a a comprehensive text useful in the day-to-day work of designing sound systems. It is a practical manual that carefully examines a step-by-step method of accurately predicting such variables as acoustic gain, speech intelligibility, and required electrical input power while plans are still on the drawing board. This approach, described in 19 heavily illustrated, information packed chapters, can save your clients thousands of dollars. Contains a history of audio. Details audio mathematics. Describes audio and acoustic instrumentation.

The Music Producer’s Survival Guide PDF

2014 | 272 pages | PDF | 5.43 MB

A music-career book like no other, THE MUSIC PRODUCER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE: CHAOS, CREATIVITY, AND CAREER IN INDEPENDENT AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC offers a wide-ranging, exploratory, yet refreshingly down-to-earth take on living the life of the independent electronic music producer. If you are an intellectually curious musician/producer eager to make your mark in today’s technologically advanced music business, you’re in for a treat. In this friendly, philosophical take on the art and science of music production, veteran producer, engineer, and teacher Brian Jackson shares clear, practical advice about shaping your own career in today’s computer-centric “home-studio” music world. You’ll cover music technology, philosophy of music production, career planning, networking, craft and creativity, the DIY ethos, lifestyle considerations, and much more.

The Recording Guide PDF

The Recording Guide PDF | 10.79 MB

Complete Guide about Drums recording (more than 100 pages)

Recording powerful and punchy drums is something I have been after since I started my audio engineering journey. I have read countless articles and books about drum recording, but most of them have failed to give me the results I am after. Most of the time, the biggest limiting factor of aggressive drum sound is the tempo. If you want the faster parts not to sound like a complete mess, you need to have total control over the sound.

Masters of Rhythm Guitar PDF MP3

English | 152 pages | PDF + MP3 | 77 MB

This book and CD set presents rhythm concepts and techniques for rock, blues, soul, funk, reggae, jazz and country guitar. It includes more than 200 grooves in the styles of Scott Moore, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Stevens, James Hetfield, Prince, Bob Marley and other famous guitarists. The aim of this book is to expand the player’s repertoire of authentic rhythm grooves in a number of popular styles. Using examples of playing styles of various influential guitarists, the author illustrates their characteristic sounds, playing techniques and harmonic approaches. This, combined with background information and a discography, will provide you with a comprehensive view of the work of each guitarist. This book should serve as a reference work which you can draw on as you need or choose to. In notation and tablature.

Total Guitar – January 2014 (True PDF)

English | 116 pages | True PDF | 28.45 MB

Total Guitar Magazine is dedicated to beginner and intermediate guitarists. It features profiles and interviews with big name and must-hear guitarists, in which their playing and gear secrets are revealed. Readers’ technical questions are answered in-depth every issue in Q&A, while the latest guitars, amps and effects are reviewed in Europe’s best selling guitar magazine.

Computer Music N 198 – December 2013 (HQ PDF)

English | 116 Pages | HQ PDF | 93.38 MB

The complete guide to making music with a computer

Computer Music’s goal is to help its readers create great music with a PC or Mac. Each month find easy-to-follow tutorials for all sorts of music software, unbiased reviews of the latest products and answers to technical questions.