Focal Press Announces Two New Pro Tools Books
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This brand new book, published by Focal Press, a division of Elsevier, shows how a real pro uses Pro Tools to make multi-platinum selling records.
Multi-Platinum Pro Tools is a jam packed, fast paced text that takes readers inside one of the top editing minds in the professional recording world. With an interactive DVD including real Nashville recording sessions, readers can watch, listen, learn and edit alongside multi-platinum editor/ producer Brady Barnett in a real Pro Tools editing session. Multi-Platinum Pro Tools shows how a real pro uses Pro Tools to make multi-platinum selling records and gives clear guidance on how to use the system in a session.
An abbreviated table of contents include...
- Pocketing, editing and tuning: The what’s, why’s, and how’s of major-label Pro Tools editing
- Adjusting your seat-belt: Setting up Pro Tools preferences for a streamlined edit session
- Beginning the pocket: Building a song from the drums up
- Using Beat Detective to save time, money, and headaches
- Getting the bass player on time and not just to rehearsal
- Locking up the acoustic tracks
- Electricity in the air
- Autotuning: The not-so-dirty little secret behind a great vocal track
Authors: Nathan Adam (Assistant Prof. Department of Recording Industry, MTSU) and Brady Barnet (Independent Producer and Recording Engineer, co-owner of Sound Mind Productions, Nashville, TN)
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Just released in July, this new book published by Focal Press, a division of Elsevier, is a step-by-step guide to the most popular music production package around, with color screen grabs throughout.
This is the definitive guide to Pro Tools LE. Mike Collins takes the reader step-by-step through the functions of Pro Tools LE using clear, full-colour screen grabs. There are time saving hints and tips throughout and the book takes a real-world approach with examples from actual recordings. Ideal for musicians, film makers, producers, composers and sound engineers, this book teaches readers how to record, edit and mix music getting the most out of Pro Tools LE.
An abbreviated table of contents include...
- Introduction
- Understanding the Hardware options for Pro Tools LE
- The Digi 002 and the Command|8
- Understanding Pro Tools LE Software
- Getting Started
- Recording MIDI and using Virtual Instruments
- Recording Audio
- Editing
- Mixing
- The Outro: Final Mixdown, Burning to CD, and Backup
- Appendix 1 Transferring Projects
- Appendix 2 DV Toolkit for LE
- Jargon Buster
Authors: By Mike Collins – Music Technology Consultant (London) who writes for magazines such as Macworld, Sound On Sound (UK), Pro Sound News Europe and Mix (USA)