A comprehensive and accessible guide to creating music on one's home computer covers all the software and hardware needed to produce any type of music, accompanied by professional tips, detailed explanations, helpful advice, and essential information. Original.

This how-to guide to recording for songwriting, song selling, and commercial airplay describes the equipment needed, and discusses both basic recording techniques and those for drums, keyboards, guitars, and voices

A comprehensive, accessible guide for musicians who are trying to keep up with technology, this title shouls serve as an inspiration to anyone thinking of the best way to make music more easily. It brings together all the techniques, simplifies the jargon and shows you how it's done.

This highly successful book from 2004 has now been brought fully up to date. If you are interested in making music on your computer, then this is for you. You can start from scratch with the basics on software, recording methods and mixing techniques, and then move on to the exhaustive reference section covering resources and technical information, with in-depth studies of software, effects and equipment. There is also advice on how to distribute and promote recordings, releasing music, organizing gigs and legal and copyright issues.

In this book you get: a practical explanation of how a multitrack recorder is used to separate vocals and instrumentation ; techniques for fixing a less than stellar performance without completely re-recording the track ; handy forms and documents used to maintain a log of the recording process ; and inspiring ideas for incorporating drum machines, loops, and such effects as reverb and echo to enhance your recording.

The Complete Guitar Handbook is a comprehensive practical guide and reference source to the guitar. Targeted at guitarists of all styles, it presents essential information in way that quickly gets the budding guitarist straight into playing the style they like. Using a compact format, the book is designed to be a highly portable, eminently-thumbable reference source that encourages the reader to explore the world of guitars in the home, the studio or at college. Opening with a Start Here section the book allows the reader to get the most out of the mass of information by providing clear starting points for different levels of skill and interest. The reader is then led through easy-to-follow explanations of learning the basics, and on to exploring a wide range of different playing styles and effects.