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iBook: MPVHub Expert Guides: Music Studio Essentials
- Rounik Sethi • May 24, 2012 • Sound Production • 11 comments
Check out our Studio & Recording Techniques: Introduction to Recording course!
What's the most important aspect of setting up a recording / project studio? Choosing a DAW and 3rd party plug-ins? Picking up an appropriate audio interface? What about a control surface or MIDI Controller? Just how important is choosing the right monitoring equipment and setting it up? And, let's not forget how crucial microphones are too..!
Music Studio Essentials by Mike Watkinson is iPad & iPhone compatible.
Assembling the appropriate equipment, and setting it up right, is of paramount importance when it comes to recording and mixing in a project studio. In our latest MPVHub Expert Guide ebook, Music Studio Essentials, pro musician, writer and producer, Mike Watkinson, walks through the essentials every studio musician needs to know.
You’ll acquire the skills and tips needed to help you get the optimum results from your studio gear, focusing on best practice for monitoring and microphone capture. There’s a healthy mix of theory and practical techniques split into 5 easy to digest chapters. Also included are 14 superb videos (over 40 minutes in total) that we’ve selected from the macProVideo.com library to further illustrate the concepts and how-to’s in this book.
Download Music Studio Essentials from Apple's iBookstore for $4.99 / £2.49.
What's Inside Music Studio Essentials?
The first chapter is an excellent primer on choosing the gear (DAWs, audio interfaces, MIDI controllers, and mixers) every project studio requires. In Chapters 2 and 3 you’ll discover all about monitoring, understanding which types of headphones and monitors to use, and crucially, how to set up an ideal listening position and calibrate your speakers. The concluding two chapters explore the recording process in depth. Mike presents the science and practical uses of the different microphone types, so you’ll know exactly which mic to choose for the recording job, and why. You’ll also learn hands-on mic recording techniques for vocals, guitars and drums, supported by detailed diagrams, photographs and videos.
The videos, diagrams, illustrative photos and pro tips make this a truly essential, immediate and accessible guide on setting up a project studio for experienced and novice musicians alike.
Screenshot from MPVHub Expert Guides Music Essentials iBook
The 14 included Videos bring new life to the topics in this Studio Essentials ebook.
Advantages of reading this ebook
At macProVideo.com we are always looking for new ways to make learning relevant and fun. We love to bring you quality content, and we’ve crafted this MPVHub Music Studio Essentials series into a beautifully enhanced iBook. iPad and iPhone friendly, this convenient and portable guide delivers a host of features:
- detailed, zoomable images and illustrative video tutorials
- easy navigation and full search functionality
- bookmarking, highlighting and note-making tools, with built-in dictionary
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR MAC USERS:
If you'd like to read this or any of our series of media-rich eBooks on your Mac... I've just discovered an elegant and well designed solution! Check out BookReader for Mac here (lite version is free) and you've got an option to enjoy these MPVHub Expert Guides on you Mac, as well as on your iOS device (the recommended platform to read them on).
In my brief tests, BookReader supports video playback within our books. Test out the free version first and let us know in the comments below how you find it!
We hope you enjoy this MPVHub Music Studio Essentials iBook and have great success creating music in your studio!
Rounik Sethi
Executive Editor, MPVHub
Check out our Studio & Recording Techniques: Introduction to Recording course!
Rounik Sethi | Articles by this author
Rounik is the Editor and Lead-Writer on the MPV Hub. As an Apple Certified Trainer for Logic (and a self-confessed Mac fanatic) he's taught teachers, professional musicians and hobbyists how to get the best out of Apple's creative software. He is a Visiting lecturer at Bath Spa University's Teacher training program, facilitating workshops on using iLife and digital media tools in the classroom. If you're looking for Rounik, you'll most likely find him (and his articles) on the macProVideo.com Hub & Forums.
Will use it with my students.
Best
R
Cheers
Glad to hear you're enjoying the Studio Essential iBook!!
Although you may be able to read some parts of the book in an EPUB reader on the Mac, much of the formatting and media (videos/audio/zoomable images) won't be accessible.
These iBooks are designed for the iBooks reader on iPad and iPhone which support enhanced ebook features. Unfortunately Apple haven't yet created a version of iBooks for Mac.
But either way, really glad to hear you're enjoying the content and design of the ebook itself :)
Best
Rounik
This ebook is already available in all the 32 iBookstore countries.
Which country are you based in? Have you tried searching for the book by typing in "macprovideo" into the search field of iTunes for Mac and then looking under the "books" search results?
You can also search for it using the term: "studio essentials".
Let me know if you have any trouble finding it.
best,
Rounik
I've just double-checked and it looks like there is no iBookstore for Russia :(
Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to change this... as it's down to Apple as to which territories iBooks can be sold to.
Have you bought any ebooks from iTunes or an iBookstore before? Perhaps there is another iBookstore which is accessible for Russia?
From what I can see there is no iBookstore for Russia. Is that correct? Have you tried searching for the ebook in the iBooks app on your iPad/iPhone?
Just to be clear... the "Books" section of iTunes App Store is different to Apple's iBookstore...
At the present moment we're only able to offer our ebooks direct from the iBookstore... We're looking at other distribution methods in the future - but that'll be sometime far int he future...
Ps I believe the middle pickup on Brians guitar is reverse wound.