Recording Tips for Music Educators: A Practical Guide for Recording School Groups
- Author: Kearns, Ronald E.
Book
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Contents
- Foreword by Richard McCready
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Getting Started Recording Your Group
- What are My First Steps?
- Microphone Placement
- Should You Use Microphones for Every Section?
- Summary
- 2. Recording During a Rehearsal in the Rehearsal Room
- Recording in Small Rehearsal Spaces
- Microphone placement and Proximity
- Overhead Microphone Placement
- Directional Microphone Placement
- Playback and Evaluation
- Using the Recording as a Teaching Tool
- Summary
- 3. Recording in an Auditorium or Large Space
- Recording in a Large Space
- Microphone Placement and Proximity
- Use of Multiple Microphones
- Hand-held Devices
- Summary
- 4. Recording Jazz Ensembles, Show Choirs and Groups with Amplifiers
- Recording Smaller Groups
- Recording Groups that Move on Stage
- Summary
- 5. Recording Away from School
- Recording in an unfamiliar space
- Use of a stereo pair only
- Making adjustments for the unexpected
- Summary
- 6. Recording in Areas That are not Acoustically Treated
- Recording Outside Performances
- Hand-held Devices
- Recording in Poorly Treated Areas
- Summary
- 7. Mixing a Performance Recording
- What is a Mixer/Soundboard?
- Analog and Digital Mixers
- Starting the Mixing Process
- Getting the Right Balances to Keep the Live Performance Feel
- Using a Mixing Board in Post-Production
- Summary
- 8. Mastering a Performance
- What is Mastering?
- How to Get a Good Master?
- What are the Final Steps?
- Mastering Yourself
- Finalizing Your Master
- Summary
- 9. Developing a Budget
- How Much Should be Spent on Equipment?
- Where Can I Get the Funding for Equipment?
- How Much Can I Expect to Spend on Equipment?
- Hand-held Devices
- Soundboards
- Sample Budget
- Summary
- 10. Selecting the Best Equipment
- What Should be Considered when Deciding on Microphones?
- What Kinds of Cables Will be Best?
- What Kind of Mixing Board is Needed?
- Preamps
- Summary
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Glossary
- Index