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LIST OF FIGURES
by Tim Crich
Recording Tips for Engineers, 3rd Edition
Front Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title page
Copyright
Contents
LIST OF FIGURES
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CHAPTER 1 The Recording Engineer
Becoming a Better Recording Engineer
Dealing with Clients
Getting Paid
Keep Up
Getting Work
CHAPTER 2 Sound Characteristics
The Characteristics of Sound
Human Hearing
Levels
Peak versus Volume Unit (VU)
CHAPTER 3 Studio Setup
Room Preparation
Placement
Microphone Stands
Cables
Microphones
Polar Patterns
Microphone Choice
Microphone Placement
Direct Box
Ground
Phase
CHAPTER 4 Drums Setup
Placing the Drums
Changing Drum Heads
Tuning the Drums
Preparation
Miking the Drums
The Click Track
Electronic/Computer Drums
CHAPTER 5 Electric Guitars Setup
Amplifier Placement
Connections In and Out
Loud Amplifiers
Preparation
Miking the Amplifiers
CHAPTER 6 Acoustic Instruments Setup
Acoustic Preparation
Piano
Keyboards
Horns
CHAPTER 7 Vocals Setup
Placing the Microphone
CHAPTER 8 Control Room Setup
Control Room Analysis
Control Room Preparation
Digital Recording
Speakers
Console
Equalizers
Equalizing
Compressors
Additional Processing
Compressing
Noise Gates
CHAPTER 9 Starting Points
Track Layout
Documentation
Drums
Bass Guitar
Electric Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Vocals
Horns
Piano
Something’s Not Right
CHAPTER 10 Signal Routing
Levels To Record
The Monitor Mix
CHAPTER 11 Recording
Tuning
In Record/Red Lights
Punching
Recording Vocals
Pitch
Post Record
Recording Effects
The Part
Bouncing
Doubling
Edits
End of Session
CHAPTER 12 Mixing
Pre Mix
Setting up to Mix
Mixing Basics
Effects
Levels
Print Prep
Printing
After Printing
Mastering
CHAPTER 13 Appendix: Digital
Digital Conversion
Bit Processors
LSB versus MSB
Input Processing
Digital Storage
Digital Multitrack Recording
INDEX
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INTRODUCTION
List of Figures
Figure 2.1
Changes in pressure
Figure 2.2
Wavelength
Figure 2.3
Fundamental and overtone
Figure 2.4
Complex waveform
Figure 2.5
Resonant frequency
Figure 2.6
Instruments within the audio spectrum
Figure 2.7
SPL versus decibel
Figure 2.8
Peak versus VU (volume unit) levels
Figure 3.1
Baffles used for absorption
Figure 3.2
Balanced and unbalanced
Figure 3.3
Microphone frequency response charts
Figure 3.4
The dynamic microphone
Figure 3.5
The condenser microphone
Figure 3.6
The ribbon microphone
Figure 3.7
Cardioid pattern
Figure 3.8
Omnidirectional pattern
Figure 3.9
Figure-8/bipolar pattern
Figure 3.10
(a) Super-cardioid and (b) hyper-cardioid patterns
Figure 3.11
Three-to-one rule
Figure 3.12
X/Y microphone setup
Figure 3.13
Spaced pairs
Figure 3.14
M/S (mid-side) pattern
Figure 3.15
Decca tree miking
Figure 3.16
Phase cancellation
Figure 3.17
Minimizing phase cancellation
Figure 4.1
Tuning a drum
Figure 4.2
Microphones inside the kick drum
Figure 4.3
Kick drum tunnel
Figure 4.4
One-microphone setups
Figure 4.5
Two-microphone setups
Figure 4.6
Three-microphone setups
Figure 5.1
Amplifier on riser
Figure 5.2
Back-to-back direct boxes
Figure 5.3
Close, semi-close, and distant
Figure 5.4
Two-microphone setups
Figure 6.1
One-microphone setups for acoustic instruments
Figure 6.2
Two-microphone setups for acoustic instruments
Figure 6.3
One-microphone setups for pianos
Figure 6.4
Two-microphone setups for pianos
Figure 6.5
Additional two-microphone setups for pianos
Figure 6.6
The upright piano
Figure 6.7
Horn placements
Figure 7.1
Microphone placements
Figure 8.1
A studio monitor
Figure 8.2
Nearfield monitor placement
Figure 8.3
The equalizer
Figure 8.4
Q curves
Figure 8.5
Frequencies to tones
Figure 8.6
Minimizing frequency overlap
Figure 8.7
Threshold
Figure 8.8
Ratio
Figure 8.9
Attack and release
Figure 8.10
Noise gate
Figure 9.1
Recording map
Figure 10.1
Good chain
Figure 10.2
Not-so-good chain
Figure 10.3
Fletcher-Munson curves
Figure 10.4
Opposite polarity speaker setup
Figure 12.1
Reverb
Figure 12.2
Delay
Figure 13.1
Different counting systems
Figure 13.2
Low bits versus high
Figure 13.3
Anti-aliasing filter
Figure 13.4
A to D (analog to digital) conversion
Figure 13.5
Quantization
Figure 13.6
Oversampling
Figure 13.7
Rotating drum
Figure 13.8
Pits and flats on a compact disc (CD)
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