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The PreSonus Sony Vegas Movie Studio and Vasst Training DVD bundle combines an exciting audio and video editing software with a comprehensive training DVD that will teach you how to become a Vegas Movie Studio pro in no time. With Vegas Movie Studio home video editing and DVD authoring software you can create captivating videos that beg to be watched again and again. Digital video editing tools add professional pizzazz with transitions, titles, and special effects including green screen. Quickly format movies for online sharing sites or author your own DVDs. Vegas Movie Studio also gives you four audio and four video tracks for creating great looking layers and transitions.
Price: $89.95 Buy now!
The ultimate reference for multi-track recording, in the studio or not. If you want to know how to make your recording sound like the pros, this book is the first step in the right direction!
Price: $14.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
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This is difficult to rate. This book has some extremely OLD information – especially involving tape splicing – and it is written almost extlusively for keyboardists. It is, in fact, reprints from articles in “Keyboard” magazine. If you are a digital shop – home or studio – this is okay for background info, but don’t spend the money thinking it’s going to give you a lot of insight into how to improve your studio techniques.
Quality:
OLD INFORMATION!
Value:
Worth it only if you don’t know anything about analog systems and tape, or if you’re just getting into MIDI and don’t have a clue.
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The UA Studio Onscreen DVD Volume 1 gives the novice to intermediate audio engineer a view into the entire process of creating, recording, and mastering a song. We follow the artists from a project studio preproduction session, into a professional studio recording session, then finally to mastering. In this video, miking techniques are demonstrated utilizing Universal Audio’s tube and solid-state analog hardware. Mixing and mastering techniques are demonstrated with the UAD-1 DSP card and vintage analog emulation plug-ins. Together with Steinberg’s Cubase line of software recording and mixing tools, you’ll see how UA products can inject old world analog tone into your DAW recordings.
Price: $39.95 Buy now!
The JBL Audio Engineering for Sound Reinforcemnt book features lots of in depth live sound information in an easy to read format. This up-to-date book comprehensively covers all aspects of speech and music sound reinforcement. It is roughly divided into 4 sections.
Price: $39.95 Buy now!
MIDI Made Easy – Vol. II – Learn how to: Use controllers, sequencers and sound modules; hook up Midi gear; sequence a song; use a sampler, and more!
Price: $19.95 Buy now!
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Complete Guide to Mixing Vol. IV — Learn how to: Add “pump” to your mix; add clarity; make effects (reverbs/delays etc.) sound natural; create a mix that sounds good on any system, and more!
Price: $19.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
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it a DVD, it has a menu and works great.
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The DVD worked perfect.
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This is a GREAT DVD if you want to learn how to mix your song. The Guy gives you all the very important info and technics on how to mix. It just a guy, a PRO Producer/Engineer talking with charts… but you learn a TON…REALLY.
Sound:
For being a DVD on how to mix the sound is not up to par. Its just a guy talking and he has charts to help show you things so it no big deal.
Ease of Use:
Its a DVD
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Do need it, it a DVD.
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Buy it. If you want to learn how to mix this is it. Its very easy to follow and will open your eyes to mixing.
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Sound Improvements Vol. III — Learn how to: Add channels to your current mixer, use compressors and gates, hook up and operate effect units (reverbs, echos, flanges and harmonizers), and more!
Price: $19.95 Buy now!
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Getting Started – Vol. I – Learn how to: Set up and work a multi-track studio; mic drums, bass guitar and vocals; turn a closet into an isolation booth; operate a mixing board, and more!
Price: $19.95 Buy now!
The Hal Leonard Guerrilla Home Recording Book is a revised edition updated with a greater focus on digital recording techniques, the most powerful tools available to the home recordist. There are chapters devoted to instrument recording, humanizing drum patterns, mixing with plug-ins and virtual consoles, and a new section on using digital audio skills. And since, many true “Guerrillas” still record to analog tape, we have retained the best of that world. This edition features many more graphics than in the original edition, further enforcing Guerrilla Home Recording’s reputation as the most readable, user-frienly recording title on the market.
Price: $24.95 Buy now!
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You don’t need a lot of money to create professional recordings, but you do need the expertise. Secrets of the Pros will speed you through years of trial and error so you can focus on creating music instead of spending all your time trying to figure out the best way to make the gear work.
Price: $39.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
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Wish it had more on mixing, little less on the duh factor
Value:
Good value, but not everything you need.
Sound:
Professional quality DVD
Ease of Use:
It’s a DVD and the chapters are small enough to go back and rewatch a specific tip
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It goes from the basics (signal routing, micing and recording individual parts etc) to the advanced final chapter about setting up a room for recording and mixing and explaining accoustics. (which may be over a lot of hobbist heads) The good: Down to earth style of the host explaining everything in laymans terms. The bad: really skims through the mixing part. The ugly: The duh factor. The main message when it comes to equipment is the more expensive the better. This isn’t aimed at the guy happy with a simple budget setup in the spare bedroom. This is good for people just starting out or those who are ready to make a serious commitment to their home studio. For those who want to go beyond the basics may want to look at “The Art of Mixing” or “Gorilla Recording” if your just a hobbist that isn’t going to invest $2400 in a mic pre.