Recording Classical Music by Robert Toft - 9780815380252

Name: Recording Classical Music by Robert Toft - 9780815380252
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc

Taylor & Francis Inc

Recording Classical MusicAuthor(s): Robert Toft\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: CRC Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780815380252, 978-0815380252\nSynopsis\nRecording Classical Music presents the fundamental principles of digitally recording and editing acoustic music in ambient spaces, focusing on stereo microphone techniques that will help musicians understand how to translate \""live\"" environments into recorded sound.\n\nThe book covers theory and the technical aspects of recording from sound source to delivery: the nature of soundwaves and their behavior in rooms, microphone types and the techniques of recording in stereo, proximity and phase, file types, tracking and critical listening, loudness, meters, and the post-production processes of EQ, control of dynamic range (compressors, limiters, dynamic EQ, de-essers), and reverberation (both digital reflection simulation and convolution), with some discussion of commercially available digital pl.