Product Description

Make your small home studio sound huge! Guerrilla Home Recording is a revolutionary approach to getting great sound in a home or project studio. Author Karl Coryat breaks down the process by showing how to think in terms of three simple "dimensions of sound," and then explains step by step how this can help you achieve amazingly clean recordings with maximum impact. Best of all, you don't need the latest pro gear to do it. You'll learn: how to make even the noisiest gear dead quiet * getting instruments to sound crisp and distinct in a mix * making drum programs and sequences sound like they were played live * getting the most out of a limited number of tracks or mixer channels * blending tracks together into a professional-sounding mix * fun projects and exercises to sharpen your ear for sound * and how to avoid the most common mistakes amateur recordists make.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67825 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Best value for money from my experience
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
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
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.