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A terrific reference and overview for the guitarist, August 15, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: The Recording Guitarist (Paperback)
All of you guitarists who are into home recording (or thinking about it) should check out this book. It is a very broad, comprehensive look at recording. What's different about this book is that rather than being for producers or engineers, this one REALLY IS sharply focused on the guitarist's perspective. It covers every aspect of recording guitar, and while it doesn't go too deep in any one area, it does a GREAT job on zeroing-in on the KEY aspects of each subject (including some of the juicy secrets and tricks).
There's a lot of material covered, but the book's organizational stucture is both brilliantly logical, and simple -- it traces the whole signal path from guitar to the final output media. And the book is so well-written, clear, concise that it also makes a good cover-to-cover read.
There is some material geared toward the professional studio session man that is probably overkill for most of us. But in these cases, this is interesting reading nontheless, and there ARE details in the material you can apply to your own situation. There is also material geared to the "home recording" hobbiest. More importantly, there's a lot of info that ANY guitarist will find valuable in ANY recording situation.
If you're like me and have spent some time in studios and home recording, there's a lot of info here that you probably already know, but what I found was that it contained a LOT of very usful little details that you typically only learn through experience. And it doesn't bog you down with a lot of stuff you won't ever need to know. So if you're new to recording and feel overwhelmed, this is a GREAT place to start--there's a TON of value here.
For me, I found that it reinforces some things I already knew. But since there is SO MUCH to absorb and retain about recording, I don't mind getting that positive reinforcement--it keeps me sharp. But more importantly, I find it fills in some of the gaps and details where I might know something conceptually, but not how to achieve it.
And while there's a lot of "food for thought" there is also plenty stuff of a practical reference nature, like micing techniques, tables of delay settings and artificial harmonics, etc.
Note: The book is more geared toward more traditional guitar recording methods than to plugging a DMA direcly into 4 track. But even if that's your approach, there's a lot of stuff here that's applicable and worth knowing.
Whether you know a lot or a little it's hard to go wrong with this one.
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A book for beginners, August 28, 2011
This review is from: The Recording Guitarist (Paperback)
I bought this book with the hope that it would help me improve my guitar recordings. Which, in a very vague way this book might help someone who has never recorded. What I was looking for in this book was mixing "recipes" for eq and compression. I realize that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to these areas but I hoped it would give a starting point for my mixes.
If this book would have been out about 30 years ago it would have gotten a decent review. However, a beginner might find better information on a guitarist web forum.
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Hey You Guitarists Maximus!, August 21, 2001
This review is from: The Recording Guitarist (Paperback)
I agree with everything the August 15, 2001 reviewer said and add the following:
I also appreciated Jon's inclusion of the equipment used by studio guitarist Carl Verheyen. I also loved the section that discusses what effect pedals and amplifiers were used by many guitar greats to get their own "classic and trademark" sounds.(Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, etc.)
The chapter that shows some personal studios of some famous guitarists was neat as were the quotes from these individuals(Alex Liefson). The book also describes how one can make some great digital recordings when away from home or the studio.
If you play guitar and care anything about recording your own music or just love recorded music, this book is a must buy.
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