ABOUT THE E-BOOK

The e-book "Observations on Recording, Mixing and Mastering Music" was written over the course of almost exactly one year. It is an overview of the music making process from my perspective and was designed to be an affordable primer for anyone making their own music.

Spanning 79 pages formatted for both PDF or EPUB the book features three main chapters on Recording, Mixing and Mastering. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface

I. Music

II. Recording

Listening

What are your intentions?

Before recording

The recording method

Then comes the technical stuff

Monitoring

Speakers and room acoustics

Sound isolation and studio acoustics

Headphones

A note on sample rates and bit depths

Phase

How does it look?

Multitracks

Tools

Depth

Instruments

Plugging things in

Some useful connections

Recording levels and gain staging

Recording mindset

Recording schedule

Organising a DAW session and using a click track

Vocals

Backing Vocals

Acoustic Guitar

Electric Guitar

Bass Guitar

Drums and Percussion

Piano

Other acoustic instruments

Electronic instruments

Unconventional recording techniques

Method and workflow

Editing

III. Mixing

Overview

CPU

Listening

A summary of listening suggestions

Routing

Suggested routing

Mixing tools

Equalisation

Compression

Limiting

Multiband Compression

De-essing

Expansion

Gating

Saturation

Panning

Reverb

Delay

Modulation

Restoration

Pitch correction

Processing processors

The mixing journey

The mix

Brightening

Extra techniques

Upward compression

Upward expansion

Downward expansion

De-clicking

Time adjustments

Linear phase EQ

Pitch adjustments

Slicing and dicing

Crossovers and band passing

Miscellaneous mix tricks and tips

Final mix moves

The mix bus

IV. Mastering

Self mastering tips

More loud

Example mastering chain

Using a separate mastering application

Credits and metadata

File type delivery to streaming distributors

Afterword