Using Your Portable Studio [Paperback]

Peter McIan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1996

This unique book, by award-winning record producer and recording engineer Peter McIan, is full of professional studio tips and tricks adapted to the new breed of portable studios. Includes a "cookbook" of over 25 recipes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Amsco Publications; 1st ed edition (December 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0825614376
• ISBN-13: 978-0825614378
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #704,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable guide from an accomplished engineer/producer!, January 5, 2001

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toddc (Brooklawn, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Using Your Portable Studio (Paperback)

Anyone interested in engineering and producing their own recording will find a wealth of information regarding techiniques and implementations for microphone, guitar, bass, keyboards, midi drum kits....including how to develop a "true" mix.

Concepts provided within are ideas you will only hear from someone who has lived it!!

This book is a great resource to help you start your projects armmed with knowledge and understanding of key studio practices.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book for the poor and talented ..., November 16, 2005

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el "yucateco" (San Bernardino, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Using Your Portable Studio (Paperback)

If you know nothing or very little about recording, thie is THE book to get. Psychedelic Tunesmith asked the appropriate question: were you thinking of getting another book?

What I particularly like about this book is that McIan writes for an audience with a severly limited budget. There are many magazines and books that write about recording as if their readers have thousands of dollars to spare.
Secondly, McIan teaches recording from a conceptual standpoint. In other words, he teaches from the stance that the idea of recording is an old princple and all technologies are forms of this principle: capture the sound waves on an impressionable medium; to retrieve the archive, reverse the process
There is an emphasis on cassette-tape portable studios but I think that has to do more with when the book was published. Even those working with digital mediums can benefit from this. Besides, years from now, digital mediums will be discussed as a dated, old-fashioned technology.

McIan constantly stresses that you should do the best with what you can get your hands on and that knowledge can often compensate for mediocre equipment. If you only have enough money to buy one book on recording, this is the one to buy.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent info. for beginers/novice recordists, July 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Your Portable Studio (Paperback)

From the get go, McIan schools you on the complete fundamentals/theory of recording. It's an excellent how-to book for anyone looking to record music either professionaly or as a hobbie The recipes in the back are worth it alone!