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1: Amazing Help for the NEWB
This book is amazing on so many fronts. If you are just starting out in the world of music recording this is a must have. You will learn so much on so many different fronts. It starts you out at the very beginning and takes you through every aspect of recording.
Even if you are fairly experienced but have never had much contact with other engineers, you'll learn an IMMENSE amount of stuff from this book. I've been recording in my bedroom for four years very unprofessionally, have even taken a college class in recording (which was mostly just the professor spending each class name dropping... so not very useful) and this book taught me more in the past two months than I seem to have learned in the past 4.
It has really useful section on the most commonly used microphone models and preamps, which helped me to get a foothold on industry standards as well as common mic/preamp applications. It has a huge section with how-to guides for micing a large variety of instruments. And the interview section is great if you pay any attention to who records the albums you love. Getting first hand perspective on the approaches of some of the industry's top professionals is pretty invaluable.
If you buy this I HIGHLY recommend also buying the Mixing Engineers Handbook. It's just as useful and accessible and will help turn your now well recorded songs in to amazingly mixed songs with the same simple approach and suggestions for common problems.
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2: Interviews: the most important chapter
The inteviews chapter give us an explanation on how top recording engineers produced in the past the kind of sound we are trying to create nowadays.
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3: Cohesive and Multi-Faceted
I have been engineering recordings for about 5 years and felt this was perfect for someone who already knows the basics about recording and is ready to get into the good stuff. The suggested micing techniques were very helpful and complete and are an excellent resource for when you are not quite getting the sound you want when placing your microphones on a source. The book also recommends which microphone to choose for each application and sometimes gives a reasoning, for instance, why you should pick a ribbon mic over a dynamic in the situation at hand. These tips are very relevant and help you to make better micing decisions on your own in the future. The best feature of this book is that it references many talented and experienced engineers such as Steve Albini and Chuck Ainlay; their helpful side-notes and tips really put these suggestions into perspective and help you to think about recording in the proper manner. I really enjoyed the section written by the "Drum Doctor" because tuning drums and having a kit sound excellent is the most important step in getting a solid drum recording. Overall i would highly recommend this book to anyone who feels they want to broaden the scope of their knowledge about recording or wants to get some new ideas about tracking.
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4: A great guide for a soon-to-be recording engineer
This book is the best on the market (as far as I know) and you don't need to be an expert to start using it. All you need to have is the interest for recording music/audio. It's a recommended purchase for every soon-to-be (wannabe?) recording engineer!
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5: A Great reference and a good starting point
This is a very useful starting point when recording a new instrument for the first time. It gives you in depth details about micing positions with clear pictures to support what the author is writing about.
The author also explains in a brief way the use of everyday studio gear wich along with all the recording techniques reviewed in the other chapters makes this book a must have in any studio, for beginners as a great starting point and for seasoned pros as an alternative and sometimes a challenge to the way they have captured audio and worked in the studio their whole life.
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