Secrets of the Pros - Modern Recording & Mixing DVD Set

Learn how the best in the music biz make great recordings. This 2-DVD set leads you through the often mystifying details of setting up your studio recording and mixing. Find out how the best in the music biz make world-class records and learn how you can take advantage of decades of expert knowledge.

You don't need a lot of money to create professional recordings, but you do need the expertise. Secrets of the Pros will speed you through years of trial and error so you can focus on creating music instead of spending all your time trying to figure out the best way to make the gear work.

With over three hours of information, these DVDs will take you through standard methods of audio engineering that have been refined over decades by the best of the best.

If you were to closely observe the best producers and engineers in the audio world as they record, edit, and mix, you would see many of them using similar techniques. This is because almost every one of them learned their skills from a lineage of other top-notch talent in the audio production industry. This 2-DVD set will show you these techniques.

You will also hear a world-class studio designer show you easy and inexpensive ways to correctly set up your studio. This process is critical if you want to record and mix pro sounding tracks and have your mixes accurately translate from your studio to the outside world.

TOPICS:
• Mixing
Techniques to vastly improve your mixes
• The Big Secret - Acoustics and how to set up a studio
This chapter features one of the world's top studio designers talking
about cutting edge, inexpensive ways to set up your studio
• Preamps
What they are and why they are extremely important
• Typical signal routing scenarios
• Loops
How to work them into you into your music
• Professional standard techniques for:
- Recording vocals
- Recording drums
- Recording bass guitar
- Recording electric & acoustic guitar
- Keyboards, synths & MIDI
- Much more

Professional Endorsement
"These DVDs are well formatted and easy to understand. Simply a must for anyone with a recording set up. Crucial info about setting up your studio and acoustics…specifics about tracking guitars, vocals, drums, and MIDI: Ken covers it all."

Jason Stokes
Recording engineer, engineer, musician
2001 Grammy Award® - Rap Album of the Year - Outkast's Stankonia
Also: R.E.M., Toni Braxton, Matchbox 20, Mariah Carey