Producing in the Home Studio with Pro Tools [With CDROM]

by David Franz

Book Overview

(Berklee Press). Get the most out of Digidesign's Pro Tools software with this comprehensive home studio guide that will show you how to create the highest quality recordings by honing your production... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876390084
• ISBN13: 9780876390085
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

BEST book there is for Pro Tools users...

I just took an online Pro Tools class at berkeleymusic.com, and Dave Franz (the author of this book), is the most knowledgable person on Pro Tools around. We used his text to supplement the online course. But I bought his book months before the course began. Immediately, I was learning about sound fields and phantom images so I could get my monitoring and recording environment set up correctly (which I had set up VERY incorrectly to begin with).Next, he goes step by step into simple recording, and helps you out with input signals and example setups for all of DigiDesign's hardware (Digi001, Digi002, MBox, even PT Free) so you get good signal flow in through you whole system. From there, he progresses to more advanced recording techniques like punching and auto-punching and the different record modes. Also included in this book are system settings that will let you get the most out of Pro Tools from your current machine and chapters on mixing and basic plugin usage. The best are the example sessions included on the CD that allow you to see what he does in real time as compared to what's beign taught in the book. There are also trials of popular third-party plugins on the CD so you can sample some really powerful RTAS plugins while working in Pro Tools.Make sure if you buy this book, you are running Pro Tools 6.x. He has an earlier version of this book for users still running PT 5.x.x.All in all, if you are a beginner, this is the place to start, hands down, and more advanced users will find juicy tidbits here and there as well.

I Love This Book!!!

I am a musician, and I've wanted to produce and record my own music at home for a long time. I'm not very technically savvy, so I really needed something in addition to a manual to help me. This is the perfect book for me! It showed me how to set up my studio, gave me advice on microphone set up, sound in the room, and Pro Tools session work from start to finish. I don't know of a more perfect book for someone out there who is just getting into home recording. EXCELLENT!!!!

Pro Tools made easy

Overall- a great introduction to Pro Tools and the world of producing. I am just getting started, but I bet it would be helpful to more advanced users too. Helps you from all angles, like how to use the actual software (like a 'how-to guide'), how to be a great producer, and more. I like the variety of information here in this book. It's not JUST another manual. This is an informational, sometimes even funny, book that will be of great interest to home-studio producers. I would definitley recommend this book to anyone interested in (like the title says) producing in their home studio with Pro Tools!

Good Stuff

I bought this Pro Tools book because it's been on Digidesign's home page for the past few months. It goes past what the manual talks about, and has a bunch of examples in text, pdf, and also on the CD rom. Another nice plus is that ProTools Free comes with it. Beats waiting for my modem to download it. It shows a lot of the more technical side of producing on ProTools, but also It basically teaches the reader how to be a successful producer and engineer. There's chapters on preproduction, miking, running a recording session, and a bunch of other topics. I got the most out of the chapters on ImprovingSystem Performance and Efficiency, which explains ways to maximize your computer's processing power while using Pro Tools. My computer is kind of slow, so this made things quite a bit faster. Also, the chapter on mixing techniques explained things much more clearly than I've seen before. All in all, a good read. I highly recommend it for Pro Tools users of any level.

Excellent guide to Pro Tools

This book is exactly what I needed! It's the perfect companion to the software because 1) it spells out the entire production process in logical and easy-to-read English (no software manual speak here) and 2) it opened my eyes to many aspects of production and engineering, both within and outside of the Pro Tools environment, that I will apply to every project I work on in the future. The miking and mixing ideas, the production values, and the section about making realistic-sounding MIDI parts were the most important topics for me. This book has definitely helped me improve my productions already. And, by the way, I got the book within four days of my order, despite the "usually ships within 1-3 months" availability.