Make your vocals sound good, so your sound sounds good! This latest addition to the popular InstantPro Series brings you an in-depth look at the delicate art and science of recording and mixing vocals for all styles of music. "Sound Advice on Recording and Mixing Vocals" shows you the specific steps to take in pursuit of that perfect, sparkling vocal sound that makes your song shine! From microphone choice to room sound to effects selection, veteran MixBooks author Bill Gibson (The AudioPro Home Recording Course) guides you through the vocal recording process, and also gives you tips on how to get the best performances from vocalists. In addition, this book comes with an audio CD demonstrating all of the concepts described in the text. Don't record another vocal before reading this book!
My academic degree is in composition and arranging, which tends to influence my writing style toward the practical applications of technology in music. I get a big kick out of hearing from people who have been helped by my books. My aspirations in Junior High and High School were to become a recording engineer, so I read every book and magazine I could get my hands on. However, if I would have had someone tell me the stuff I write about today, when I was young, I would have been light years ahead in my early career.
Directly out of college I taught music in a college in Seattle for three years. I decided I would rather get out and do music so my wife (who I met while teaching college) and I formed a band and traveled for several years playing shows, clubs, and bars all over.
I taught recording classes for about 10 years while performing, which is where I began to develop a number of pragmatic explanations for complex recording tasks. Much of the material for my first books were a product of teaching these classes. In 1991, a buddy (Bob Sluys) and I produced "Killer Demos: Hot Tips and Cool Secrets for the Home Multitrack User. This video sold pretty well and started the machine in motion that would end up with my first book for MixBooks in 1996. Mike Lawson, the GM for MixBooks built a great library, which he ended up purchasing from Mix Magazine to start Artistpro.com. For Mike and Artistpro, I wrote several more books along with a complete online course, with online graded tests. Artistpro was eventually purchased by Thomson Publishing in Boston. Mike was acquired with the deal so I still work with him directly to build new tools for recordists around the world. So far, with Mike's help and my family's patience I have written more than 30 books about recording at the same time that I have produced many albums for Seattle artists.
I am currently with Hal Leonard Publishing. They represent the best in the publishing world and for me, the perfect culmination of a long road in the publishing business.
