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Guerrilla Home Recording, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Karl Coryat
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 447913
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 251
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Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 1423454464
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9781423454465
ASIN: 1423454464
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
A clever resource for the ever-growing home recording market. The revised edition is updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques, the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording, humanizing drum patterns, mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles, and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since, many true "Guerrillas" still record to analog tape, we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition, further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording's reputation as the most readable, user-frienly recording title on the market.
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 Best value for money from my experience February 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm amateur musician. I own rehersal/studio room in my basement. I'm also an electronic engineer too. This is book for me. My gear is weird and cheap. Tascam 688 ($200), Behringer XM8500 (vocal mic - $50), Behringer XM1800S (drum mics $10 each), Behringer DSP Ultramizer 2024 ($120). Instruments are much better. After reading this book I've tried to do a recording following advices from it. After we listen my "production" my friend have been sitting with opened mouth for maybe 2 minutes. After that he say something like: "Well.... it definitely DOES NOT sound like it was recorded in a basement"
Advices are simple, clearly explained. They engage also Your own imagination and gain Your creativity.
This book helped me to explore what I've already had. I've got a rare kind of satisfaction to do something better while spending a few dollars.
I cannot say what value this book presents to professionals, but for amateurs I can give it the highest notes. What definitely have helped me is the fact that I was very familiar with such terms as "signal path", "freqency spectrum" and overall electronical knowledge. But people who doesn't understand all this there is well fitted explanation. Not too detailed, only as much as You need to follow.
Great book.
 Home recording book ok February 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is reasonable. It explains EQ, mics, etc with pictures and diagrams so anyone can get it. I guess with the modern age of computer based recording a lot of it is obsolete.
 Great book with lots of good info November 5, 2007
This book is definately worth getting. Most of us can't really afford a full studio, so we can make use of these tricks and techniques. Plenty of info on how to make your home recording sound more like a pro-recording, or at least stand out from OTHER home recordings.
The reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that he spends more time reffering to using tape than computer based systems. Given the current state of things, most of us will be using a computer to record onto, rather than tape. He does cover it in some parts, but not at the level I feel he should.
Over all, its a great book that every beginning recording engineer should read.
Great book! July 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone that owns a home studio. I will explain why I gave it 4 stars in a bit.
First of all, its a catchy read. The diction and style of his writing is very calm and friendly, as if you were speaking with him in person. This is what will hook you!
Secondly, the chapters are very well divided into sections such as "How to Record almost Anything" and many others.
In a sense, it may seem a little childish and not-so-accurate, but at the same time, the reader must remember that it takes it all back to basics to lay the foundation for future learning. The best way to learn in the studio is do observe, try, fail, and experiment. This book will spark that interest.
I have been recording my own music for a few years now and I find that this book gave me some helpful insight and great tips for EQ settings, and the importance of experimentation. It's a great little book! The only reason I gave this book 4 stars was because many of the things I felt like I already knew, however, there were times when he would hint that he was going to go in deeper about a subject, and he only told me a few things I didnt know and many that I knew. THAT is a PERSONAL preference, so for someone that knows little to none about home recording, this book could be a LIFE SAVER!
I would say this: If you own a consumer home studio, you cant go wrong by OWNING this book. Even if it doesnt help you incredibly, this book IS useful and thought provoking, which is the most important part: it will spark your interest to learn and try new things in your studio.
Advice from a patient friend February 8, 2007
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
The title of this book is somewhat inaccurate, since it doesn't really cover a wide variety of types of studio gear or types of recording. Rather, reading this book is more like spending several hours in the particular studio of one patient, experienced home recordist who is generous with his time in explaining, engagingly, his own set-up and how he uses it.
A problem anyone new to home recording will confront is the feeling of coming in late on the conversation: frustratingly, the manuals for even entry-level gear seem to have been written by engineers (often, Japanese engineers) who assume everyone else has been working with audio recording gear since at least 1950, just like them. And, it is always engineers, not musicians, who write the manuals. Thus, we get instruction on "attenuation" instead of being told how to produce a diminuendo, and we get pots instead of knobs.
A key benefit of this book is that it is written by a musician, and explains what the engineers are talking about in words musicians use.
This is, overall, an outstanding book for any musician assembling a home studio. The author understands, from experience, that no home studio is going to match a pro one, and that understanding how to use ordinary gear is more valuable than spending many thousands of dollars on equipment that won't achieve much benefit outside the environment of one of those pro studios. The author's specific target is a recording that will sound good to a musical listener, while realizing that a home studio will never impress (or fool) a pro sound engineer. Particularly valuable here is his advice on when to stop trying -- e.g., he is right that recording drum sets in a home studio is bound to lead to disappointment, so why spend a few more hundred or thousand dollars on a set of matching drum mikes?
The author plainly came of age in recording well before the digital era. As a result, his recommended set-up is perhaps heavier on hardware, and makes less full use of software, than a brand new set-up would. As an example, he considers a hardware mixer a core piece of equipment, and devotes considerable space to describing work-arounds to deal with the limited connections available on most (affordable) hardware mixers. Whether a hardware mixer is needed anymore if you are using mixing software is an open question (and a good way to start heated arguments on the appropriate forums). Still, understanding how to use a hardware mixer will make using mixing software much easier, since most software products aim to emulate the functions of hardware models.
The book is a nice mix of specific tips, general theory, background explanation, problem-solving, and arcanely entertaining trivia. The more detailed tips tend to be specific to rock recording, so musicians in other genres may get less out of this book. However, at the price there is plenty here to benefit any musician wanting to make home recordings.
I docked one star from my rating out of irritation with small factual inaccuracies (e.g., the author doesn't understand that the panning of a drum set can be affected by whether the drummer is left-handed) and larger limitations (e.g., the author has never learned to record with multiple mikes and therefore never explains how to do this -- his approach is strictly one track at a time.) Again, though, for the money this is a great book to have.
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