Good books?

[memoid]

Three is practically Brandon Block. Weirdly enough though, 12 is nearly Jack Kerouac and over 1000, the Buddha.

[Jimfish]

:lol:

[sash]

Yeah and if you hear Snoman's production - I think it came with a CD - you have to question some of the techniques - he's not got it all down - but there's some solid stuff in there too I think. And he goes on and on about his PSP vintage warmer ... anyone tried it?

U'd almost think that someone was paying him to endorse some of the products he talks about. On page 201 when he's talking about Native Instruments Pro-53 he says "and of course, it sounds just like the original Prophet Five!".
I don't own a Prophet 5 but i seriously doubt the software version sounds just like the original.

The book is very good if u can just avoid the 'promote a product' aspect of it.

Another thing that had me scratching my head is that he says most techno tracks don't have a bassline as the bass just comes from the kicks. Maybe im just not listening properly.....

Yeah i use the vintage warmer. It's very nice though i'd still like to have a good hardware compressor and use both.

[Basil Rush]

As promised.

Summary of Mixing with your mind

1 - Keep Your Distance
2 - Mid Tuning Your Loudspeakers
3 - Advanced Microphone Techniques
4 - That killer drum sound
5- Electric Guitar Magic
6 - Piano Techniques
7 - Superstar Lead Vocal Sounds
8 - Cracking Compressors
9 - Analogue vs Digital
10 - Mixing and Meditation
11 - The Art of Mixing
(this page has some tobacco on it, i think someone was rolling up on my book).
12 - Your Reference CD
13 - Doorway to Heaven
14 - Vocals to Hot to Handle
15 - No Cans Do
16 - Backwards Mixing
17 - Time Machine
18 - Gravity and it's effect on Music
19 - Ear Care
20 - Hit Record Formula
(this chapter rather disappointingly doesn't actually give you the formula, he just says to look for it ... yawn!)
21 - About the Author
22 - FAQ


Anyway so that's the chapters dealt with. I should do a proper summary really, but enough to say that the foreward is by George Martin and it's focused on band production but at least half of it is worth reading for dancy stufff ... any questions?

[memoid]

Sounds good, and it's getting more interesting the more I find out... :) Thanks mate

[Basil Rush]

dance music production by Rick Snoman. Ive done the bob katz etc...etc...visual mixing etc...etc.. and this is the best book by a very, very, very big margin in my view.

See now I've just read this again and I'm currently under the impression it's the worst book ever, it's woefully inaccurate in places, poorly edited, has an amazingly narrow focus and sometimes it's just plain factually wrong.

Am I alone in this?

And who the **** is Rick Snoman ... I'm prepared to be shot down on this and proved wrong, but where are his credits on tracks? Where on earth did he get the PhD in audio engineering that's mentioned on the Internet in several places and where are his legendary remixes!

Rant over.

[rounser]

According to interweb rumour:

Rick Snoman was Future Music's in-house engineer, from what I gather. Wrote a lot of articles. He was also responsible for a lot of plagiarising from Sound on Sound, which eventually got found out (at which point he began to be referred to as a "freelancer" who won't be working for them again).

After that it appears he began writing the manual.