Getting Great Sounds

Tom Lubin

doi:10.5771/9781538173022

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-7301-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-7302-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 319
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. About the Author No access
4. Table of Content No access
5. Introduction No access
1. Bell and the Telephone No access
2. 1. The Quest for Better Sound No access
  2. Edison and the Vacuum Tube Amplifier No access
  3. Twentieth-Century Developments No access
  4. Microphones Today No access
1. 1. Moving-Coil or Dynamic Microphones No access
  2. Ribbon Microphones No access
  3. Condenser Microphones No access
2. 1. Omni or Non-Directional No access
  2. Figure Eight or Bidirectional No access
  3. Cardioid or Unidirectional Microphones No access
3. 1. Physical Law #1: The Smaller, the Brighter No access
  2. Physical Law #2: The Bigger, the Slower No access
  3. Microphones and Transient Response No access
  4. Off-Axis Coloration No access
  5. Sensitivity and the Proximity Effect No access
  6. Spec Sheets No access
4. Storing Microphones No access
1. 1. Sound Waves No access
  2. Speed of Sound and Wavelength No access
  3. Harmonics and Overtones No access
  4. Measuring Amplitude: The Decibel No access
  5. Envelopes No access
2. 1. Anatomy of the Ear No access
  2. Hearing Ranges No access
  3. What Is Flat? No access
  4. Hearing Damage No access
  5. Hearing Delay and Directionality No access
  6. Masking No access
  7. Windows of Uncertainty No access
1. 1. Verifying Correct Polarity No access
  2. Polarity Reversal Switches No access
2. 1. A Multiple-Mic Problem No access
  2. Testing for Comb Filtering No access
3. 1. Pre-Delay No access
1. High and Low Impedance No access
2. 1. Connecting Low-Z Mics to High-Z Preamps No access
  2. Phantom-Powered Mics and Balanced Systems No access
1. 1. Dangers of Lifting Ground No access
  2. Eliminating Other Noise (Electromagnetic and Computer Signals) No access
2. Direct Boxes No access
3. Wireless Microphones No access
4. Guitar Pickups No access
5. 1. Contact Pickups No access
1. 1. Where’s the Pad? No access
2. Microphone Stands No access
3. Windscreens No access
4. Shock Mounts and Floor Vibration No access
5. Gobos No access
6. Piano Bags No access
1. Why Stereo Miking? No access
2. XY Coincident Placement No access
3. ORTF No access
4. Jecklin Disk Technique No access
5. Blumlein Pair No access
6. AB Technique No access
7. Decca Tree No access
8. The MS (Mid-Side) Technique No access
9. A Dummy Head No access
1. 1. Larger Studio No access
  2. Smaller Studio No access
2. 1. Stands, Lighting, and Seating No access
  2. Positioning and Leakage No access
  3. Laying Cable No access
  4. Studio Sound Check No access
  5. Headphones (Cans) No access
  6. Click Tracks and Scratch Tracks No access
1. Where to Put the Drums No access
2. 1. Mono Recording No access
  2. Stereo Recording No access
  3. Glyn Johns and Recorderman No access
  4. Multitrack Recording No access
  5. Latin Percussion No access
3. 1. Adjusting Drum Levels No access
  2. Gating Drums No access
1. Acoustic Guitar No access
2. 1. Playing from the Control Room No access
  2. Big Sound from Small Packages No access
3. A Bit on the Bass No access
1. Recording Piano No access
2. Piano in a Rhythm Session No access
3. Grand Piano No access
4. Upright Acoustic Piano No access
1. Taking a Solo No access
2. Background Vocals (BG Vocs) No access
3. Lead Vocals No access
4. The Singer's Position/The Stand's Placement No access
5. Other Considerations No access
1. 1. Space No access
  2. Setup No access
2. 1. Strings No access
  2. Horns No access
  3. Orchestral Percussion No access
  4. Choirs No access
3. How Many Microphones Does It Take to Record an Orchestra? No access
4. It's a Wrap No access
1. External Threshold No access
1. Basic Rules No access
2. Finding What You're Looking For No access
3. Bumping Your Head at 10,000 Cycles No access
4. Punch, Bottom, Mids, Presence, Tops, and Brilliance No access
5. EQ Terms and Tools No access
6. Types of Equalizers No access
1. Intro To Appendix C - Line Audio No access
2. Josephson - Hammer Audio No access
3. Lewitt - Ear Trumpet No access
4. Core No access
5. Beesneez - Pearlman No access
6. Soundelux - Wunder No access
7. Golden Age - Senal Sound No access
8. ZP - Soundman No access
9. Townsend Labs No access
10. Flea - Sage - Gauge No access
11. Warm No access
12. Neat - AEA - Ehrlund No access
13. Placid - Aston No access
14. Aspen - Blackspade No access
15. JZ - Marantz No access
16. Samara - Stager No access
17. Rosewell - Mesanovic No access
Index No access Pages 301 - 319