I cut my early teeth on Alan Parsons Art & Science of Sound Recording. It taught me in depth about the everyday use and, most importantly, understanding of the gear I'd use every day for any genre. I'm certainly going to be ordering a couple of the great books Marc mentioned. Thanks so much Marc and Warren for the great content of this series. Makes my journey all the more sweet!
Ken Scott's book is great! And I've probably seen every interview of him available. Love his attitude towards recording and mixing. You interviewed him shortly in one of your videos. I would love to see him as guest again!
Mixing with your Mind by Michael Paul Stavrou - Closely Guarded Secrets of Sound Balance Engineering, is the most remarkable book. He was mentored partly by Sir George Martin after being hired at Air Studios, and is John Williams engineer of choice. It is ALL technical from mic placement to monitor speaker placement and everything in between. Well worth a read.
This are the type of contents that we need! TH-cam it's full of tricks, frequency charts, hidden secrets videos and at the end of the day none of this is helpful. No one emphasize enough that every skill we want to acquire needs a path to be taken. Thanks for sharing yours
I believe that's not right. You can get a lot out of youtube, if you know how to listen. Oftentimes there is a 50 second segment out of a 50 minute video that actually is valuable.. if you have the necessary attention-span and are really listening - you'll get something out of it. Yes, 60% is just talk and telling you stuff you already know, 30% is sales and 8% is fooling around - but are you ready to catch the 2%? Take the 800 Hz trick for bass for instance. I've been watching a couple of videos of a bass-player who created presets for Amplitude (Plugin that emulates Amps, Stomps, Cabs etc for guitars) in order to recreate different signature-bass-sounds of great players. I paid attention, guess what: 800Hz played a big role in all the presets.. every single one - I noticed, I remembered and I applied it to a track I'm currently working on. And now we both just watched a video where Marc told you 10 of those kinds of tricks within a 25 min video. Tell me, how many hours do you have to read books to get that kind of value? (For example the Fairchild compressing bass and drums at the same time is one I will surely try out - since it makes a LOT of sense to me) Btw. I think Warren recognized this too.. because to me it looks like he's trying to get those 2% out of his old videos in the form of shorts (
This is gold. As a scholar, there is something fabulous about reading these books. I've been training hard over the last three years in order to accomplish this childhood dream of running a studio and making records, but at night, I always turn to the stories of the masters before going to sleep. Cheers!
sylvia masseys book is so inspiring for me, and then business books like four day work week because getting your business right means you can spend way more time being an artist rather than chasing your tail
What an awesome video (and not typical of most "pro audio" videos). Thanks for sharing. A favorite book that is neither educational or technical is The Mixerman Diaries. It's a very fun read.
I sort of rejoiced when you pulled out Bill Schnee at number 1! LOL I'm new to all this and recently came across Bill and found that he did alot of the music I liked growing up too...loved the interview Warren did with him...turns out Bill did the direct to disc Lincoln Mayorga Volume III album my Dad had and I still remember as a kid Dad explaining to me how great this recording was and how it was different to normal LP's (my Dad was right into hifi in those days)...brought back good memories...thanks Marc
The Make.Mine.Music with Marc has been outstanding to watch. I released my first album in February of 2021 St Barger Hill, Music Man Magician. I used what I had for gear and made it work. Marc is helping me with critical listening skills. I have a friend that is a Producer he referred to it as misquote wing listening. Thanks Warren and the whole gang at Produce like a pro for your efforts to make incredible videos for people like me to enjoy and learn. Rock the House! 🔥🔥🔥
I have enjoyed many of your videos, and this one is a real treasure - learning from the masters of a trade is the key to advancing. These books will bring direct experience to anyone devoted to their work. Thanks!!
Good list 👍🏻 I have David Simon's, Al Schmitt's, and Ken Scott's books. All three are well worth their respective weights in gold❣️ Like Geoff Emerick, Glyn (not Glenn) Johns also used (uses) a mic in figure 8 about 6 feet from the bass cabinet; usually, an AKG C414, but he has also used the Neumann U67 and the AKG C12A. I often do the same with a condenser mic or a ribbon mic. The Beyerdynamic 160 is actually the M 160, and it is beyond reproach ❣️ Both Tony Visconti and Geoff Daking both highly recommended it to me many years back. It's amazing on pretty much everything 👏🏻 It actually ignited my love of ribbon mics. It's well-known that Andy Johns used two as overheads on John Bonham's drums for "When The Levee Breaks"; Eddie Kramer has said that it's the best guitar amp mic; Glyn Johns paired an M 160 with an SM57 on Eric Clapton's Fender EC Signature Vibro Champ amp during sessions for I Still Do. I think you meant Elliot Scheiner, not Schnier. 🤪
I’ve been adding 800 to 900hz to the bass for years. Never knew if it was technically right or wrong but it sounded good to my ears. Trust your instincts…..unless your instincts stink. Hehehe Love the channel. Thx
I accidented upon micing upright piano from the soundboard side a couple of years ago. I like listening to a pianist play and wandering around them with my ear turned towards the piano. Wherever I get the best sound, that's where I stick the mic. I wound up micing grand piano a few times from the soundboard side as well, great if you can't sneak a mic into the top for whatever reason, like they're singing at the same time.
For Beatles recordings this is a must have: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 1: My Bonnie through Beatles For Sale (1961-1964); Volume 2: Help! through Revolver (1965-1966); Volume 3: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band through Magical Mystery Tour (late 1966-1967); Volume 4: The Beatles through Yellow Submarine (1968 - early 1969); Volume 5: Let It Be through Abbey Road (1969 - 1970). The Beatles Recording Reference Manuals (1961-1970) are a five book series that tell the step-by-step process in which each of the band's recordings were created. The books reconstruct each song's creation as well as detail the technical profile of each and every classic Beatles recording session from 1961 to 1970. Through extensive, fully-documented research spanning over a decade, these books fill an important gap left by all other Beatles books published to date and provide a unique view into the recordings of the most successful pop music act of all time. The collection and analysis of over 5,400 recordings (takes, outtakes, remixes and release versions), books, magazine articles, photos, film and video evidence, and interviews with key engineers who worked on the sessions filter out the noise of myth and conflicting fact to arrive at as accurate an accounting and application of facts surrounding the creation of these classic recordings as is currently possible.
I got 2 Beyerdynamic M160 mics specifically for drum overheads. I've got a smaller bright drum room, so I purchased 2 M160's hoping they mics could tame the high end and the transients. Pro tip; it worked. Passive Ribbon mics are naturally darker yet punchy, and the nature of the ribbon element flattens/rounds off harsh transients for a smooth controlled sound. It was an educated guess that turned out to be right for my room. M160's feel like your recording through old school analog and tape. It's something you have to experience to understand. $699 isn't very much for an incredible ribbon mic. Get a pair if you can. They inspire confidence and greatness. You can use them on damn near everything, and it's almost impossible to over boost top end EQ.
I always enjoy hearing you talking about music and technique, and it is even more so generous from you to share all these tipps. You'd read the books, thought them over, tried them out, so I really appreciate you share all this. Thank you! Great guy, great music!
Hello again, Mr Miller. Nice choices. Someone gave me the Glyn Johns book as a present. It wasn't as satisfying as I'd expected, but heigh ho, what do I know?
Oh, I couldn't resist and before finishing watching video turned on Sgt. Pepper for round bass and all songs sounds perfectly on my studio speakers. I need to say I didn`t listen to this album a very long time ago on good speakers, usually on earbuds. Thank you for inspiration Marc!
As an alternative to Bruce Swedien’s (expensive) paperback “In the Studio with Michael Jackson” (2009), you can get his earlier book “Make Mine Music” (2003) in where Bruce touches on many recording techniques. He writes: “The equalization and limiting that I use for recording bass is as follows: Boost the 600Hz to 800Hz range about 2dB to 4dB and limit the bass during the recording using a UREI 1176 LN limiter set fo a 4:1 compression ratio, but only taking off 2dB to 3dB peaks, maximum.”
My show name is actually a tribute to the guy! I just felt the Second book was a little easier read. Both great books, should have made it a twofer too!
@@marcdanielnelson317 Yes, Bruce Swedien (1934-2020) continues to be an inspirational figure. His quote: “Compression is for KIDS!!!!” on the Gearspace Q+A from 2006, always puts a smile on my face. While on the topic of remarkable recording engineers, Phill Brown and his book “Are We Still Rolling?” (2010) is a good read too.
Thank you. This was really helpful in finding more resources for uni. The behind the glass books are on our reading list. Currently I’m reading The Art of Record Production Volume 2: Creative Practices in The Studio. I have found that I need to use it in combination with TH-cam research but I don’t mind that.
Thank you so much for chairing your knowledge! Just ordered half of the books you mentioned from the city library. Am happy there is a way to move forward that doesn’t require deep pockets. Love your work!
Making Records"The Scenes Behind the Music" by Phil Ramone. & Alan Parsons "Art and Science of Sound Recording," are two I've really enjoyed. Thanks Marc!
thank you very much for sharing. I own some of them but will plan to buy the rest from the link soon, but oh man , look at the price of “Recording the Beatle..”.
Thank you for this. I always enjoy Marc's videos, very good indeed. I have read Soundman, devoured it in a weekend I think, and I'm a slow reader! so rivetting that it was. These others will go on my wishlist. One that I like is Tony Visconti's Bowie, Bolan and the kid from Brooklyn.
Thanks for paying tribute to these incredible mentors and visionaries. To that impressive list, I would suggest Daniel Lanois’s autobiography « Soul Mining ».
What a great video! Thanks, Marc. I'll be searching for these books over the next few days. I began on an old Teac A3440 recorder with external DBX. I miss those simpler days of being creative with just a few tools. Appreciate your teaching and perspective. Cheers!
This is awesome! I've read about half of these and I'm stoked to explore the ones I don't have. Another cool book is Mo' Meta Blues, by Questlove. Thanks, MDN. :)
I was interested to note that I had 6 of the books mentioned, and that I'd had them anywhere from 2005 to 2019. For example, I had Ken Caillat's one about the making of "Rumours." I remember reading it on holiday in Malta in 2017. The book that I read before it {on the 'plane, in fact}, was also about "Rumours", called "Never break the chain" by Cath Caroll. It's nowhere near as technical or intimate, but it has more of an historical overview and is worth a read, though Caillat's book, as an insider, is superior. I truly appreciate the stance taken in this video, partly because, prior to the internet, when I first started recording in 1992, there were few ways to find out anything about recording. So it was through the odd book, interviews, snippets that an artist might drop {in book or interview or on TV}, sometimes unwittingly, rare documentaries, portastudio manuals that gave the bare bones of instruction, that sort of thing. Much of the time, unlike now, one didn't know what was being talked about so one had to work out so much for oneself, which is both a good and a bad thing. Good, because you had to experiment and find out how certain things worked; bad because rarely would you find any sense of proportion. For example, I remember reading, back in '92, in Mark Lewisohn's book, "The Beatles recording sessions", about the first take of "Tomorrow never knows" and he spoke of the "thundering echo and booming, quivering, ocean-bed vibrations", which gives a certain impression. But because I didn't have any practical idea what that translated to, I tended to slather much of my early stuff in reverb and a lot of my early stuff sounded like mush. Even before I had a reverb unit, I invented my own reverb by putting a bass drum between myself and the mic, in the spirit of the Beatles' experimental bent. It sounded interesting, but it hurt, getting into position ! I didn't do that too often !! Some of the good books I've read are "Emergency first aid for home recorders" by Paul White, "Guerilla home recording" by Karl Coryat, "The mix engineer's handbook" by Bobby Owsinski, "Recording instruction" by Adam St James, "Good Vibrations ~ a history of record production" by Mark Cunningham, and I picked up one, around 2005, on some internet site, I think, called Dreampoint, that really should have been published as a book, called "How to mix a pop song from scratch" by some guy called Jezar. Recently, watching the Beatles documentary, "Get Back", one could pick up some useful tips there. The documentary isn't about recording practice as such, but one can't help but pick up some interesting titbits. None of these books etc, will make one a good engineer, but they are the seed bed from which so much can grow.
@@yvonnelitzheim2432 If you're English and grew up during the 70s, the word is 'titbits'. 'Tidbits' is an Americanism. You know, in England, we even used to have a magazine called "Titbits."
I liked Sound Man a lot as well, otherwise these were all new title to me! Another good one is Solid State (Beatles and Abbey Road) and Bring It On Home was a fun read as well.
@producelikeapro next time when you edit a video material like this one, with a lot of constrasty thin lines that can induce the unwanted video artefact called Moire, just add a fast blur before exporting of about 0.3-0.5. Not enough to ruin your image but enough to kill the Moire. Cheers.
Just finished the book with the photos and transcripts of the „Get Back“ series, which really has drawn me into listening to more Beatles recordings. I will for sure check out some of the proposed books, foremost that of Glyn Johns. Also with the video interview of Warren with Bill Schnee, he caught my interest and its good to know there is a book by him to continue drawing from his massive experience. Thanks Marc for sharing your Top10.
Hi Marc and Warren, great video, thank you! Would you mind sharing what the music is coming in at 6:56 and 17:37? I really need to know! :-) Thank you guys, you're awesome! Best, Andy
Great stuff thanks! Could you elaborate on how much you boost 800 for bass guitar? Differs of course, but are we talking a couple of db's or more like ten? Do you crank it sometimes or is there a problem elsewhere in the chain in those cases where the boost goes beyond a certain-ish amount? No rules ever, but you know... Ballpark ;)
BUT to me the absolute must have book is Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques by Sylvia Massy....this book opened my mind to so many fantastic possibilities, thinking definitely outside of the box. Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques dares you to "unlearn" safe record-making, to get out from behind the windshield, stick your head out the sunroof, and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers, engineers, and recording stars discard fixed notions about how music should be recorded and explore techniques that fall outside the norm and yield emotionally powerful, incredibly personal, gut-wrenching, and even scary recordings. Joined by Hans Zimmer, Al Schmitt, Bruce Swedien, Jack Joseph Puig, Dave Pensado, Tchad Blake, Bob Clearmountain, Linda Perry, Michael Franti, Michael Beinhorn, Bob Ezrin, Geoff Emerick, and many others, this book has the stories, tips, recipes, photos, advice, diagrams, exercises, illustrations, and jokes that you won't find in any other instructional manual. And what about that cover? Recording Unhinged contains many eye-popping illustrations by Sylvia herself. As if being a celebrated producer isn't enough, Sylvia's iconic illustrations bring real and imaginary recording situations to life. Catchy Bass Lines? Engineering Marvels? How to Mic a Chicken?!! Do a swan-dive into the unknown and make studio magic with inspiration from Recording Unhinged.
What are some of your favourite books on recording and mixing? Share below!
I cut my early teeth on Alan Parsons Art & Science of Sound Recording. It taught me in depth about the everyday use and, most importantly, understanding of the gear I'd use every day for any genre. I'm certainly going to be ordering a couple of the great books Marc mentioned. Thanks so much Marc and Warren for the great content of this series. Makes my journey all the more sweet!
Ken Scott's book is great! And I've probably seen every interview of him available. Love his attitude towards recording and mixing. You interviewed him shortly in one of your videos. I would love to see him as guest again!
Recording Unhinged by Sylvia Massy is a fun one! Love the video. Makes me want to go buy all of those wonderful books.
My first book was "Creative sound recording" by Paul White. It opens to me the door to the world of gears and recordings.
Do you hear about this one?
Mixing with your Mind by Michael Paul Stavrou - Closely Guarded Secrets of Sound Balance Engineering, is the most remarkable book. He was mentored partly by Sir George Martin after being hired at Air Studios, and is John Williams engineer of choice. It is ALL technical from mic placement to monitor speaker placement and everything in between. Well worth a read.
Marc always makes my day better when his videos pop up!
Fantastic!!
Same.
This are the type of contents that we need! TH-cam it's full of tricks, frequency charts, hidden secrets videos and at the end of the day none of this is helpful.
No one emphasize enough that every skill we want to acquire needs a path to be taken. Thanks for sharing yours
Absolutely! Thanks for then great comment!
I believe that's not right. You can get a lot out of youtube, if you know how to listen. Oftentimes there is a 50 second segment out of a 50 minute video that actually is valuable.. if you have the necessary attention-span and are really listening - you'll get something out of it. Yes, 60% is just talk and telling you stuff you already know, 30% is sales and 8% is fooling around - but are you ready to catch the 2%? Take the 800 Hz trick for bass for instance. I've been watching a couple of videos of a bass-player who created presets for Amplitude (Plugin that emulates Amps, Stomps, Cabs etc for guitars) in order to recreate different signature-bass-sounds of great players. I paid attention, guess what: 800Hz played a big role in all the presets.. every single one - I noticed, I remembered and I applied it to a track I'm currently working on. And now we both just watched a video where Marc told you 10 of those kinds of tricks within a 25 min video. Tell me, how many hours do you have to read books to get that kind of value? (For example the Fairchild compressing bass and drums at the same time is one I will surely try out - since it makes a LOT of sense to me)
Btw. I think Warren recognized this too.. because to me it looks like he's trying to get those 2% out of his old videos in the form of shorts (
This is gold. As a scholar, there is something fabulous about reading these books. I've been training hard over the last three years in order to accomplish this childhood dream of running a studio and making records, but at night, I always turn to the stories of the masters before going to sleep. Cheers!
sylvia masseys book is so inspiring for me, and then business books like four day work week because getting your business right means you can spend way more time being an artist rather than chasing your tail
I like the way the music changes to a finger picked acoustic that alludes to a Blackbird vibe when he talks about the Geoff Emmerich book.
Make. Mine. Mindful.
Always appreciate hearing and seeing Marc's ways...
The mixing engineers handbook.... or the Bruce swedien recording method... both full of great tips , tricks and knowledge
What an awesome video (and not typical of most "pro audio" videos). Thanks for sharing.
A favorite book that is neither educational or technical is The Mixerman Diaries. It's a very fun read.
Great selection of books! I'll be diving in to some of these.
I sort of rejoiced when you pulled out Bill Schnee at number 1! LOL I'm new to all this and recently came across Bill and found that he did alot of the music I liked growing up too...loved the interview Warren did with him...turns out Bill did the direct to disc Lincoln Mayorga Volume III album my Dad had and I still remember as a kid Dad explaining to me how great this recording was and how it was different to normal LP's (my Dad was right into hifi in those days)...brought back good memories...thanks Marc
Thank you! fantastic spotlight on books, and..a mindset.
The Make.Mine.Music with Marc has been outstanding to watch. I released my first album in February of 2021 St Barger Hill, Music Man Magician. I used what I had for gear and made it work. Marc is helping me with critical listening skills. I have a friend that is a Producer he referred to it as misquote wing listening. Thanks Warren and the whole gang at Produce like a pro for your efforts to make incredible videos for people like me to enjoy and learn. Rock the House! 🔥🔥🔥
Cooooool videos!!!!
I was waiting for a new post from Marc! Can't wait for the next one!!!!!
This was a masterCLASS! CHEERS for the video mate 😎 👌
I have enjoyed many of your videos, and this one is a real treasure - learning from the masters of a trade is the key to advancing. These books will bring direct experience to anyone devoted to their work. Thanks!!
That was a sweet video. Great recommendation on books, and little recording tips. Awesome...
Love the sm 81 on acoustic
Good list 👍🏻
I have David Simon's, Al Schmitt's, and Ken Scott's books. All three are well worth their respective weights in gold❣️
Like Geoff Emerick, Glyn (not Glenn) Johns also used (uses) a mic in figure 8 about 6 feet from the bass cabinet; usually, an AKG C414, but he has also used the Neumann U67 and the AKG C12A. I often do the same with a condenser mic or a ribbon mic.
The Beyerdynamic 160 is actually the M 160, and it is beyond reproach ❣️ Both Tony Visconti and Geoff Daking both highly recommended it to me many years back. It's amazing on pretty much everything 👏🏻 It actually ignited my love of ribbon mics. It's well-known that Andy Johns used two as overheads on John Bonham's drums for "When The Levee Breaks"; Eddie Kramer has said that it's the best guitar amp mic; Glyn Johns paired an M 160 with an SM57 on Eric Clapton's Fender EC Signature Vibro Champ amp during sessions for I Still Do.
I think you meant Elliot Scheiner, not Schnier. 🤪
I think these books can really enhance the details of what we pick up here❣️ Thanks Marc and Warren!
Fantastic! Thanks ever so much Audrey
Simply Wonderful
Thanks Marc !
I’ve been adding 800 to 900hz to the bass for years. Never knew if it was technically right or wrong but it sounded good to my ears. Trust your instincts…..unless your instincts stink. Hehehe
Love the channel. Thx
I accidented upon micing upright piano from the soundboard side a couple of years ago. I like listening to a pianist play and wandering around them with my ear turned towards the piano. Wherever I get the best sound, that's where I stick the mic. I wound up micing grand piano a few times from the soundboard side as well, great if you can't sneak a mic into the top for whatever reason, like they're singing at the same time.
As soon as I see Marc on anything I just click it straight away.
He's great! Thanks for sharing!
I AGREE 🙂 I wish he did so much more lol then wed have Warren AND Marc lol MORE!!!!
For Beatles recordings this is a must have: The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 1: My Bonnie through Beatles For Sale (1961-1964); Volume 2: Help! through Revolver (1965-1966); Volume 3: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band through Magical Mystery Tour (late 1966-1967); Volume 4: The Beatles through Yellow Submarine (1968 - early 1969); Volume 5: Let It Be through Abbey Road (1969 - 1970). The Beatles Recording Reference Manuals (1961-1970) are a five book series that tell the step-by-step process in which each of the band's recordings were created. The books reconstruct each song's creation as well as detail the technical profile of each and every classic Beatles recording session from 1961 to 1970.
Through extensive, fully-documented research spanning over a decade, these books fill an important gap left by all other Beatles books published to date and provide a unique view into the recordings of the most successful pop music act of all time.
The collection and analysis of over 5,400 recordings (takes, outtakes, remixes and release versions), books, magazine articles, photos, film and video evidence, and interviews with key engineers who worked on the sessions filter out the noise of myth and conflicting fact to arrive at as accurate an accounting and application of facts surrounding the creation of these classic recordings as is currently possible.
I got 2 Beyerdynamic M160 mics specifically for drum overheads. I've got a smaller bright drum room, so I purchased 2 M160's hoping they mics could tame the high end and the transients. Pro tip; it worked. Passive Ribbon mics are naturally darker yet punchy, and the nature of the ribbon element flattens/rounds off harsh transients for a smooth controlled sound. It was an educated guess that turned out to be right for my room. M160's feel like your recording through old school analog and tape. It's something you have to experience to understand. $699 isn't very much for an incredible ribbon mic. Get a pair if you can. They inspire confidence and greatness. You can use them on damn near everything, and it's almost impossible to over boost top end EQ.
I always enjoy hearing you talking about music and technique, and it is even more so generous from you to share all these tipps. You'd read the books, thought them over, tried them out, so I really appreciate you share all this. Thank you! Great guy, great music!
For me -your best episode yet!
Fantastic
Hello again, Mr Miller. Nice choices. Someone gave me the Glyn Johns book as a present. It wasn't as satisfying as I'd expected, but heigh ho, what do I know?
Oh, I couldn't resist and before finishing watching video turned on Sgt. Pepper for round bass and all songs sounds perfectly on my studio speakers. I need to say I didn`t listen to this album a very long time ago on good speakers, usually on earbuds. Thank you for inspiration Marc!
As an alternative to Bruce Swedien’s (expensive) paperback “In the Studio with Michael Jackson” (2009), you can get his earlier book “Make Mine Music” (2003) in where Bruce touches on many recording techniques.
He writes: “The equalization and limiting that I use for recording bass is as follows: Boost the 600Hz to 800Hz range about 2dB to 4dB and limit the bass during the recording using a UREI 1176 LN limiter set fo a 4:1 compression ratio, but only taking off 2dB to 3dB peaks, maximum.”
My show name is actually a tribute to the guy! I just felt the Second book was a little easier read. Both great books, should have made it a twofer too!
@@marcdanielnelson317 Yes, Bruce Swedien (1934-2020) continues to be an inspirational figure. His quote: “Compression is for KIDS!!!!” on the Gearspace Q+A from 2006, always puts a smile on my face.
While on the topic of remarkable recording engineers, Phill Brown and his book “Are We Still Rolling?” (2010) is a good read too.
Love this series of videos with Marc
Yes! It’s wonderful
One of your best, Marc. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. This was really helpful in finding more resources for uni. The behind the glass books are on our reading list. Currently I’m reading The Art of Record Production Volume 2: Creative Practices in The Studio. I have found that I need to use it in combination with TH-cam research but I don’t mind that.
Thank you so much for chairing your knowledge! Just ordered half of the books you mentioned from the city library. Am happy there is a way to move forward that doesn’t require deep pockets. Love your work!
Great Review! The behind the glass series especially Volume 1 is essential. Very specific examples of how gear was used in famous records!
I can vouch for "Behind the Glass", great read and I'm so glad he included it.
Making Records"The Scenes Behind the Music" by Phil Ramone. & Alan Parsons "Art and Science of Sound Recording," are two I've really enjoyed. Thanks Marc!
So good. You make me want to make music and now I want to read. Reading is not my thing, but I can't wait.
Another excellent video Marc! Thank you!
thank you very much for sharing. I own some of them but will plan to buy the rest from the link soon, but oh man , look at the price of “Recording the Beatle..”.
Thank you for this. I always enjoy Marc's videos, very good indeed. I have read Soundman, devoured it in a weekend I think, and I'm a slow reader! so rivetting that it was. These others will go on my wishlist. One that I like is Tony Visconti's Bowie, Bolan and the kid from Brooklyn.
This is an invaluable list! Thanks for sharing and the commentary on each of the books and why they are special to you.
Thanks for paying tribute to these incredible mentors and visionaries. To that impressive list, I would suggest Daniel Lanois’s autobiography « Soul Mining ».
This is fantastic!!! Thank you for my new reading list!
This is fantastic, recording books have so much cool stuff to share!
Thanks Conor! Agreed 100%!
This video is a masterpiece, and this gent is an incredible gem.
Holy cow. The price tag for RTB book!
Thanks for all the amazing insights! Great info
What a great video! Thanks, Marc. I'll be searching for these books over the next few days. I began on an old Teac A3440 recorder with external DBX. I miss those simpler days of being creative with just a few tools. Appreciate your teaching and perspective. Cheers!
i love these youtubers from 10’ 20’ 60’ 70’ and 80’s
Who's more better than Marc to put all this in one go !
Its such a luck to have great mentors on this channel. Warren never fails.. 👍
So many of my favorites! I'd highly recommend Soul Mining by Daniel Lanois.
Marc, enjoyed hearing your book list. Was surprised with Emerick coming in at #2. Thanks for the video.
Μarc,you're the man!
Epic video!
Thanx!
I am going to get a few more books. This video has reminded me. Cheers
Billy Decker template mixing and mastering, mixing secrets for the small studio.
Billy is wonderful! We have a great course with him on Pro Mix Academy too.
Awesome video with very insightful clear communication that’s helpful with Brevity thank you!
I loved the Making Rumours book!!
Great video, thanks Marc!
MDN is so awesome at communicating ideas , legend!
Thanx ! Your best lession by now
Glad to hear that!
Great list - I wasn't aware of some of these. I'd add Recording Unhinged by Sylvia Massy and the Secrets for the Small Studio books by Mike Senior.
Love this, Thanks. Here I come Amazon.
Wow, what a great overview. Thank you so much!
Well, I just ordered 3 of them just now while watching this :D (I loved the Al schmitt book, I read that one when it came out).
Wow Marc! Great video and great list. Thank you so much for sharing. Hopefully you are keeping notes for your book someday!!
Great info! Thanks guys!!
Man this is one of the most useful videos I’ve seen. Thanks!
Great list of books - and really good to hear your motivation why they are great. Really good video!
This is awesome! I've read about half of these and I'm stoked to explore the ones I don't have. Another cool book is Mo' Meta Blues, by Questlove. Thanks, MDN. :)
Thank you for this inspiring video.
Thank You …great book list
Excellent. Just so informative and inspirational. Thank you Marc :)
I was interested to note that I had 6 of the books mentioned, and that I'd had them anywhere from 2005 to 2019. For example, I had Ken Caillat's one about the making of "Rumours." I remember reading it on holiday in Malta in 2017. The book that I read before it {on the 'plane, in fact}, was also about "Rumours", called "Never break the chain" by Cath Caroll. It's nowhere near as technical or intimate, but it has more of an historical overview and is worth a read, though Caillat's book, as an insider, is superior.
I truly appreciate the stance taken in this video, partly because, prior to the internet, when I first started recording in 1992, there were few ways to find out anything about recording. So it was through the odd book, interviews, snippets that an artist might drop {in book or interview or on TV}, sometimes unwittingly, rare documentaries, portastudio manuals that gave the bare bones of instruction, that sort of thing. Much of the time, unlike now, one didn't know what was being talked about so one had to work out so much for oneself, which is both a good and a bad thing. Good, because you had to experiment and find out how certain things worked; bad because rarely would you find any sense of proportion. For example, I remember reading, back in '92, in Mark Lewisohn's book, "The Beatles recording sessions", about the first take of "Tomorrow never knows" and he spoke of the "thundering echo and booming, quivering, ocean-bed vibrations", which gives a certain impression. But because I didn't have any practical idea what that translated to, I tended to slather much of my early stuff in reverb and a lot of my early stuff sounded like mush. Even before I had a reverb unit, I invented my own reverb by putting a bass drum between myself and the mic, in the spirit of the Beatles' experimental bent. It sounded interesting, but it hurt, getting into position !
I didn't do that too often !!
Some of the good books I've read are "Emergency first aid for home recorders" by Paul White, "Guerilla home recording" by Karl Coryat, "The mix engineer's handbook" by Bobby Owsinski, "Recording instruction" by Adam St James, "Good Vibrations ~ a history of record production" by Mark Cunningham, and I picked up one, around 2005, on some internet site, I think, called Dreampoint, that really should have been published as a book, called "How to mix a pop song from scratch" by some guy called Jezar.
Recently, watching the Beatles documentary, "Get Back", one could pick up some useful tips there. The documentary isn't about recording practice as such, but one can't help but pick up some interesting titbits.
None of these books etc, will make one a good engineer, but they are the seed bed from which so much can grow.
tidbits
@@yvonnelitzheim2432 If you're English and grew up during the 70s, the word is 'titbits'. 'Tidbits' is an Americanism.
You know, in England, we even used to have a magazine called "Titbits."
I liked Sound Man a lot as well, otherwise these were all new title to me! Another good one is Solid State (Beatles and Abbey Road) and Bring It On Home was a fun read as well.
I'd like to see you dial in some amplitube settings in a video... That would be really helpful to me.
Golden stuff, Thank you, Marc.
Dr. MD, you rock...!
He does!!
a lot of gold advices here, thanks
this video is one of the best PLP videos.. thanks.👍
Excellent as always!
Love these videos.
@producelikeapro next time when you edit a video material like this one, with a lot of constrasty thin lines that can induce the unwanted video artefact called Moire, just add a fast blur before exporting of about 0.3-0.5. Not enough to ruin your image but enough to kill the Moire. Cheers.
Anyone know what these songs backing the video are? In addition to a great video, great song selection!
Just finished the book with the photos and transcripts of the „Get Back“ series, which really has drawn me into listening to more Beatles recordings. I will for sure check out some of the proposed books, foremost that of Glyn Johns.
Also with the video interview of Warren with Bill Schnee, he caught my interest and its good to know there is a book by him to continue drawing from his massive experience.
Thanks Marc for sharing your Top10.
So glad you like the Bill Schnee book! He’s an incredible guy and it’s an amazing book!
thanks for these recommendations!
Hi Marc and Warren,
great video, thank you!
Would you mind sharing what the music is coming in at 6:56 and 17:37? I really need to know! :-)
Thank you guys, you're awesome!
Best, Andy
Great stuff thanks!
Could you elaborate on how much you boost 800 for bass guitar? Differs of course, but are we talking a couple of db's or more like ten? Do you crank it sometimes or is there a problem elsewhere in the chain in those cases where the boost goes beyond a certain-ish amount? No rules ever, but you know... Ballpark ;)
Also, a wide or narrow Q?
thanks again!!
I am going through Michael Stavrou’s Mixing with Your Mind…..pretty outside stuff.
BUT to me the absolute must have book is Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques by Sylvia Massy....this book opened my mind to so many fantastic possibilities, thinking definitely outside of the box. Recording Unhinged: Creative and Unconventional Music Recording Techniques dares you to "unlearn" safe record-making, to get out from behind the windshield, stick your head out the sunroof, and put the pedal to the metal! Sylvia Massy and her cohort of celebrity music industry producers, engineers, and recording stars discard fixed notions about how music should be recorded and explore techniques that fall outside the norm and yield emotionally powerful, incredibly personal, gut-wrenching, and even scary recordings. Joined by Hans Zimmer, Al Schmitt, Bruce Swedien, Jack Joseph Puig, Dave Pensado, Tchad Blake, Bob Clearmountain, Linda Perry, Michael Franti, Michael Beinhorn, Bob Ezrin, Geoff Emerick, and many others, this book has the stories, tips, recipes, photos, advice, diagrams, exercises, illustrations, and jokes that you won't find in any other instructional manual. And what about that cover? Recording Unhinged contains many eye-popping illustrations by Sylvia herself. As if being a celebrated producer isn't enough, Sylvia's iconic illustrations bring real and imaginary recording situations to life. Catchy Bass Lines? Engineering Marvels? How to Mic a Chicken?!! Do a swan-dive into the unknown and make studio magic with inspiration from Recording Unhinged.
Great recommandations
sometimes i wish you'd interview your dog. cheers! i was unfamiliar with a bunch of these books. great stuff obviously
Thank you , great video
I agree with the #1!!! hahaha same for me, I will get some ofrom your list, thanks!!
Make Mine Music didn’t make the list? Great list, summer reading is sorted.
Awesome video!
Thanks ever so much
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Phenomenal!