Shaping Your Sound Series Part 1: Microphones, Mixers & Multitrack Recording

This series teaches how to best mike, record and mix drums, guitars, pianos, horns, vocals, strings and more. Plus analog multi-track recording & multitrack recorders, tape editing & dozens of examples, animations & visuals showing expert recording skills. Learn: How to professionally build a song, step-by-step, through the tracking and overdubbing process with examples and demonstrations. The fundamental characteristics of analog tape and professional multitrack recorders & the techniques to make top quality recordings. How to achieve great mix downs, including information on mixing vocals & rhythm sections. Advantages and disadvantages of various studio microphones. Learn precision erasure and tape editing, speed shifting, backwards recording and other analog tape effects.