Microphones For The Recording Musician

This book focuses on microphones as the essential link between the recording process and vocals, guitars, pianos, drums, and other acoustic sounds. Choosing the right mic can make or break a song. Authors Phil O'Keefe and Craig Anderton cover how to choose and apply mics with real-world examples and explanations. Topics include the following:

• Understanding different microphone types

• Essential miking accessories

• Mic preamps and connections

• Stereo miking techniques

• How to mic specific instruments

Loaded with illustrations and featuring sidebars with details on selected topics for those who want to know “why” as well as “how ” Microphones for the Recording Musician gives the practical knowledge needed to make the best possible home studio recordings.



About the Musician's Guide to Home Recording Series

The book series Musician's Guide to Home Recording takes a clear, practical approach to today's world of computer-based recording. Each book in the series focuses with laser-like precision on a particular topic. Titles include How to Choose and Use Audio Interfaces, How to Create Superior Mixes, How to Record and Mix Great Vocals, and more. Readers can choose individual books to increase their knowledge in specific areas, or treat the series as a complete course and cover selected topics at their own pace.

Musician's Guide to Home Recording is the definitive series to help musicians everywhere use digital recording, mixing, and editing to their fullest potential.

Phil O'Keefe is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer/producer, and senior editor of Harmony Central. He served as a staff producer/engineer for Blonde Vinyl records and is the owner and chief engineer of Sound Sanctuary. He has worked with such artists as Voodoo Glow Skulls, Alien Ant Farm, Jules Day, Zak Claxton, Rex Smith, Jeff Fenholt, Craig Goldy, and John McGill, among many others. O'Keefe's articles and reviews have appeared in Electronic Musician, Guitar Player, Keyboard, and EQ magazine. Before moving to Harmony Central in 2005, he moderated the Music Player forums alongside such industry heavyweights as Roger Nichols, Chris Stone, Ed Cherney, George Massenberg, Bill Dooley, and Craig Anderton.



Craig Anderton is an internationally recognized authority on music and technology. He has played on, produced, or mastered over 20 major label recordings, did session work in New York in the 1970s on guitar and keyboards, played Carnegie Hall, and more recently, mastered well over a hundred tracks for various artists. His onstage career spans from the 60s to current, EDM-oriented solo performances. As an author, he co-founded Electronic Musician magazine, and has written over 35 books on musical electronics and over a thousand articles. He has also lectured on technology and the arts in 10 countries, 38 U.S. states, and three languages.




Craig Anderton is an internationally recognized authority on technology and music. He has toured, played Carnegie Hall, mastered hundreds of tracks, and been involved with dozens of major-label releases as a player, producer, or engineer. He's also written over thirty books (including the seminal Home Recording for Musicians) and thousands of articles, and is the co-founder of Electronic Musician magazine. Known for his ability to demystify complex subjects, Anderton has given seminars on technology and the arts in thirty-eight states, ten countries, and three languages. He lives in Nashville.