The Complete Guide To Connecting Audio, Video, And MIDI Equipment

This one-of-a-kind handbook describes through photos, line diagrams, and step-by-step instructions how the average student, enthusiast, voice-over talent, editor, engineer, musician, and/or producer can easily connect any of the various types of analog or digital audio, video, and MIDI equipment in their studio setups. Readers will also be able to identify, purchase, and connect the specific A/V and MIDI equipment necessary for any creative job. Easy to understand and fun to use, The Complete Guide to Connecting Audio, Video, and MIDI Equipment will bring a professional or home-based studio completely up to date and up to maximum speed, making the music come alive.

Beginning Rock Guitar

Artie Traum. Chords and strums plus sections on amplifiers, equipment and tablature. Fits into the guitar case.

Der Saxophon-Doktor : Tipps & Tricks zu Equipment, Wartung und Reparatur

Hal Leonard Recording Method: Book 2 - Instrument & Vocal Recording (2nd Edition)

This edition addresses new equipment and software concerns that affect the way excellent recordings are made. Updated text, illustrations, photos, and video examples add to the power of the previous edition, plus new techniques and considerations are presented as they pertain to additional recording scenarios. You'll learn what you need to know about capturing the best vocal and instrument tracks possible, no matter what kind of studio you are working in or what kind of equipment is used.

Jazz Rhythm Guitar

Everything the accomplished guitarist will ever need to know about jazz rhythm playing. Includes chord symbol recognition and voicings, comping styles and patterns, equipment and setup, understanding the fingerboard and chord theory.

Rock And Roll Rhythm Guitar

Amos Garrett is a master of classic rhythm guitar styles. Listen as Amos demonstrates songs and styles, provides drills and exercises, gives tips on equipment and talks about keeping time.Book and 6 CDs

Recording And Producing In The Home Studio: A Complete Guide

Create professional quality music in your home studio with this comprehensive guide to all aspects of DIY production. With the help of this book you can learn how to set up your studio for maximum versatility, syncronise your equipment correctly, discover hundreds of new editing techniques and absorb yourself in a mix that sparkles and glows just like a professional release. Contains discussion concerning the producer's role and purpose, and covers many different production disciplines and approaches. Get the best out of your equipment, and make your music shine.

The Live Sound Manual

Getting Great Sound at Every Gig. From faders to frequencies, microphones to mixing, pink noise to polarity, this is the all-inclusive manual for creating the finest sound for live performances. It applies to the entire range of stage performers and their equipment - solo acoustic guitar and vocal, full-scale band requiring complex amplification, or electronica DJ working multiple turntables. Every aspect of live sound is covered, including: analyzing venue needs, acquiring and managing the ideal sound system, setting up and testing equipment, understanding and applying the theories of acoustics, maintenance, trouble-shooting, and much more. Also features a 15,000-word technical glossary.

Audio Made Easy : Or How to Be a Sound Engineer Without Really Trying, Fifth Edition

No frills, no jargon, no filler: Ira Whites Audio Made Easy is a breath of fresh air two decades in the making. Since 1997, this concise and comprehensive guide to audio and recording equipment and techniques has furnished readers with practicalinformation on how professional audio equipment works and how they can best employ it. Although technology advances between editions, Whites signature approach remains the same. Audio Made Easy contains everything you need and nothing you dont -just the facts, distilled from many years of sound and studio experience and laced with a wry humor that makes the dullest mandatory minutiae tolerable.

The Dictionary Of Strums And Picking Patterns For Guitar

Fred Sokolow. All the strumming and picking patterns you need to play rock, blues, country, pop, soul/funk, heavy metal, jazz or folk. Over 150 patterns and nearly 100 rhythmic grooves to cover any musical situation. Includes tips on equipment and effects.

101 Tipps für Saxophon : Das Handwerkszeug der Profis

This book presents valuable how-to insight that saxophone players of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams, and accompanying CD provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including:techniques; maintenance; equipment; practicing; recording; performance; and much more!

101 Saxophone Tips

A valuable how-to insight into the playing and heritage of the saxophone that players of all styles and abilities will find useful. Packed with photos, music, diagrams, and accompanied by an excellent CD of examples, this volume covers everything from maintenance and equipment to effective practicing and recording.

Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar Signature Licks - 2nd Edition

Wolf Marshall explains Stevie Ray's influences, tuning, equipment, picking technique, and other elements of his sound. He also transcribes and explains parts of 13 of SRV's most famous songs. The accompanying CD includes of all the songs being analyzed Includes: Cold Shot, Scuttle Buttin', Lenny, Pride and Joy, Riviera Paradise, and more.

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Step By Step breakdown

Wolf Marshall explains Stevie Ray's influences, tuning, equipment, picking technique, and other elements of his sound. He also transcribes and explains parts of 13 of SRV's most famous songs. The accompanying CD includes of all the songs being analyzed Includes: Cold Shot, Scuttle Buttin', Lenny, Pride and Joy, Riviera Paradise, and more.

Joe Bonamassa: Signature Sounds, Styles And Techniques

Red hot Blues master Joe Bonamassa reveals the secrets behind his powerhouse blues-rock guitar style, from the equipment he uses to the licks that make up his incredible signature style.Get a private lesson from this blues master, and discover his approach to:StratocastersTelecastersGibson guitarsRhythm playingSoloingUsing a slideEffectsAmps and speakersAmplifier baffleMics and amps

Tips & Tricks: 52 Essential Guitarist Information Flashcards

These fantastic flashcards feature 101 essential hints and tips for every guitarist. Including: -Chord shapes, finger picking and strumming tips -Advice on buying guitars and equipment -Practising and gigging 'inside information' from experienced players -Easy to read diagrams and explanations -Keep these cards in your guitar case to dip in as and when required!

Trevor Rabin: Instructional DVD For Guitar

Trevor Rabin, former Yes guitarist, teaches how to improve and develop your rock skills, style and chops. He covers how to use your equipment to produce the most desirable sounds, and his techniques for speed picking, solo improv, left- and right-hand development, tone, bending and more! Includes a lesson book and 55 minutes of expert tuition!

Lick Library: Learn To Play Pink Floyd Vol. 2 (2 DVD)

Learn five Pink Floyd tracks note for note with Jamie Humphries! This excellent 2 DVD set will guide you through the bluesy rock licks of Dave Gilmour, one of the greatest Strat players of all time! Tracks include: Time, Learning To Fly, Have A Cigar, On The Turning Away, and Mother. Bonus footage includes equipment set up and performances.

101 Drum Tips : Stuff All The Pros Know And Use

Ready to take your playing to the next level? This book presents valuable how-to insight that drummers of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams, and accompanying CD provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including: Techniques Beats and fills Equipment Practicing Recording Performance and much more!

Dog Daze... The Dog Relaxation Pack

The perfect publication for the dedicated animal lover, with a world of ingenious canine wisdom accompanied by an audio CD of music to relax your pet! This fully illustrated book is packed with great pictures, witty quotations and wry observations, all from the point of view of your very own dog. The CD features a musical sound world specially developed to relax your pet, with calming tones combined with a unique sound-world that your dog will adore. You can even leave the disc on 'repeat' when you leave the house and you will find yourself returning to a happy and placid hound.Endorsed by TV vet Trude Mostue.

101 Harmonica Tips - Stuff All The Pros Know And Use

Ready to take your Harmonica playing to the next level? This book presents valuable how-to insight that Harmonica players of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams, and accompanying CD provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including: techniques, position playing, soloing, accompaniment, the blues, equipment, performance, maintenance, and much more!

Michael Ross: All About Effects

Here's a fun and easy wasy to learn the ins and outs of effects - compression, delay, distortion, filters, reverb, looping, vocoder and many more.You'll learn when, how and why to use them; and how to create the sound you desire. Covers equipment, pedal tips, power recommendations and more.The CD demos 72 effects and includes full tracks of popular songs demonstrating the effects.

Quartets that travel

Quartets that Travel is a collection of 13 short quartets for small auxiliary percussion, perfect for performances where large equipment is not ideal, transitions between set changes, or for ensembles with limited instrumentation. The set progresses from basic techniques through more advanced articulations and structure, giving players the opportunity to detail those techniques and focus on producing appropriate sounds and approach to each instrument.

101 Bass Tips: Stuff All the Pros Know and Use

Ready to take your playing to the next level? Renowned bassist Gary Willis presents valuable how-to insight that bassists of all styles and levels can benefit from. The text, photos, music, diagrams and accompanying 64-track CD provide a terrific, easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics, including: techniques, improvising and soloing, equipment, practicing, ear training, performance, theory, and much more.