Good books on production

future producer · Post by **future producer** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:06 pm

Loads of stuff on synthesis which is something you might wanna grasp, I just added here....

http://www.solarempireaudio.com/audio_s ... crets.html

ascend · Post by **ascend** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:27 pm

Future Producer wrote:Loads of stuff on synthesis which is something you might wanna grasp, I just added here....

http://www.solarempireaudio.com/audio_s ... crets.html

Complicated but very very interesting and helpful! Thanks

red shrapnel · Post by **red shrapnel** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 4:34 pm

why does this site stray away from directly answering the questions posted at hand?

Power Tools For Reason 3.0 is my rec.

thesynthesist · Post by **thesynthesist** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:47 pm

Seriously, if I came on this forum, and saw this thread, i would leave.

The guy asked for books, not your dissertation on why books arent good enough.

FUCK man, this is like a "listen to my bloviating, because its important" forum section, not production.

There are a TON of books that are excellent for learning how to mix, and especially learning the theory of synthesis and sound.

Here are some...

http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Synthesis-S ... 337&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforceme ... 368&sr=8-1

If you have a direction you are leaning, let us know, and maybe more specific books will come to mind.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:41 pm

^^^^
thanks for all of the suggestions so far everybody

slim · Post by **slim** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:17 pm

Some guy off DOA is hosting loads of .rar files of samples etc, but among them is one of .pdf files with lots of advice on mixing and production, (samples are nice too

)

http://hosted.filefront.com/psitech

I'm learning myself, don't be too harsh on books, you would be lost if you had to learn the basics from scratch, and a bit of knowledge never hurts before you experiment.

auan · Post by **auan** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:32 pm

thesynthesist wrote:http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforceme ... 368&sr=8-1

I have that one. It's pretty much essential for the live sound I do, and I keep referencing it as I buy more and more hardware, but I wouldn't recommend it for someone making computer-based music. And I definitely wouldn't recommend it to a noob. It's very technical, very dry, very boring, and more of a reference material than a 'how to' book. The sections on MIDI and Acoustics are an interesting read, if nothing else.

The other one you recommend, Sound Synthesis & Sampling, looks like a jolly good read.

future producer · Post by **future producer** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:24 pm

This a is a very good book and suitable for the beginner to intermediate, it's called the "The Mixing Engineer's Handbook" - it's one of the better written books.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mixing-Engineer ... 466&sr=1-2

Looks mainly at Mixing, Sound Panorama, EQing, Effects, Dynamics, Monitoring & Mastering

thesynthesist · Post by **thesynthesist** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 10:12 pm

Auan wrote:
thesynthesist wrote:http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforceme ... 368&sr=8-1
I have that one. It's pretty much essential for the live sound I do, and I keep referencing it as I buy more and more hardware, but I wouldn't recommend it for someone making computer-based music. And I definitely wouldn't recommend it to a noob. It's very technical, very dry, very boring, and more of a reference material than a 'how to' book. The sections on MIDI and Acoustics are an interesting read, if nothing else.

The other one you recommend, Sound Synthesis & Sampling, looks like a jolly good read.

THis book is essential for anyone working with sound.

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:20 am

Slim wrote:Some guy off DOA is hosting loads of .rar files of samples etc, but among them is one of .pdf files with lots of advice on mixing and production, (samples are nice too )

http://hosted.filefront.com/psitech

I'm learning myself, don't be too harsh on books, you would be lost if you had to learn the basics from scratch, and a bit of knowledge never hurts before you experiment.

nice nice

fank yoo

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:21 am

thanks everybody again

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