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Title: Behind the Glass: Top Record Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits by Howard Massey ISBN: 0-87930-614-9 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Bad...
Comment: I would not say that this is the best book to buy for the aspiring project studio owner. While there are some neat stories, etc, the interviews don't give you much other than the "GO do it your own way, your ears are always right, when we recorded x-famous person, blah, blah, blah, ".. I found the Mix Engineers handbook was more practical. I have read a few of the recording and mixing books available, and while this was a fun read, it was the least practical. If you are looking for production/recording tips get studiobuddy and then buy the recording and mix engineers handbooks.
Rating: 4
Summary: Massey brings legends to your living room
Comment: When I first saw BEHIND THE GLASS, by Howard Massey, I began turning its pages immediately. Publisher Miller-Freeman, it seems to me, has sort of seized the initiative in releasing great new music-industry titles that appeal to the targeted up-and-coming musician as well as veteran industry observers, teachers, and researchers. Author Howard Massey presents his material in interview format, sometimes with individual U.S. and British engineers and producers, and sometimes in a group setting (East coast panel, West coast panel, for example). He obviously has both great access to and an easygoing credibility with hit-making engineers and producers, because the questions are good, the answers are candid, complete, and casual. (If I sound vague about Massey, it's because I haven't bumped into him and the book contains no "about the author" blurb, a disappointing omission.) The book is being marketed briskly to college and trade-school recording programs, so--will this book teach you recording? No, you must still learn the basics from a good class setting, or a mentor, or in a self-directed experience with a different class of book than this (Runstein, Wadhams, and Woram are among the classic recording-text authors). But don't think I'm diminishing the value of this new book: it reads fast, and Massey brings all these legendary names into your living room, making them acquaintances, colleagues, friends--sharing shoptalk, suggesting both general methods and personal trade-mark techniques. Here's a bit of detail I gleaned from Behind the Glass: I bought James Taylor's Hourglass CD in Cape Town, South Africa a couple of years ago on a day when I needed to hear some mellow American music, and found myself entranced with the recording quality. I made a mental note to associate those great rich sounds with engineer Frank Filipetti. Later that same year Hourglass won a grammy as best recorded album-no surprise to me-but I honestly had no idea, until reading Massey's interview of Filipetti, that Hourglass was essentially recorded on hastily-assembled project studio gear on Martha's Vineyard. My respect for Filipetti went from huge to immense. Behind the Glass is excellent for prospective engineers or producers, for teachers of recording, or anyone with technical insight who is involved or interested in the recent history of pop music production. Ron Simpson, School of Music, Brigham Young University. Author of MASTERING THE MUSIC BUSINESS.
Rating: 4
Summary: Inside the Musicians Studio
Comment: An enjoyable book that reads like a documentary - no, like a bible with many chapters. "And the vocals were scorched but it worked, and it was good". "They spent forty days and forty nights in the studio." "On the seventh day God split the guitars into two channels so that the vocals may cross in the sound space." This is the stuff you won't find in the text books.
This book got me to buy a disco CD. Yeah, disco, and I liked it!
Le Chic, Freak Out! same guitarist that plays with Bowie in Let's Dance and China Girl. After you read the story, you have to give another listen. It doesn't tutor in mixing, recording, equipment selection, nor critical listening - but the chapters touch these subjects so that you can read about the working professional from behind the glass.
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Title: The Mixing Engineer's Handbook by Bobby Owsinski ISBN: 0872887235 Publisher: Artistpro.com Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Mastering Audio: The Art and the Science by Bob Katz ISBN: 0240805453 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios by William Clark, Jim Cogan, Quincy Jones ISBN: 0811833941 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: All You Need Is Ears by George Martin, Jeremy Hornsby ISBN: 0312114826 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Inside Tracks: A First-Hand History of Popular Music from the World's Greatest Record Producers and Engineers by Richard Buskin ISBN: 0380807459 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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