Pro Tools 7 Session Secrets
Professional Recipes for High-Octane Results
Chapter One
Recording
and Microphones
Digital audio recording is all about 1s and 0s. The
binary system is used to encode all the glorious
sound fed into the computer so you can tweak,
manipulate, process, mix, and edit to your heart's
delight.
This chapter will take you beyond elementary
recording setups in Pro Tools and focus on real-world
techniques both inside and outside the software.
The goal is efficiency. The faster you can get
a solid sound coming through the monitors, the
more time and energy you'll have for that moving
performance. We will focus on the basic elements
of mic placement for the most common instrumentation
of a rock band, but most concepts apply to
sound design, broadcast, or any type of recording.
I/O Recording Techniques
Using Pro Tools to record a band can be a fun, creative, and rewarding experience for
everybody involved. The streamlined virtual nature of the Pro Tools interface coupled
with the instantaneous nature of ... read full excerpt from Pro Tools 7 Session Secrets: Professional Recipes for High-Octane Results ebook
