The Musican's Guide to PROTOOLS

by John Keane


417 pages

McGraw Hill / Osborne
Published 2004
ISBN: 0-07-223175-0

Brief...

Key Features

1. Teaches skills to record and edit one's own music
2. Teaches to mix within Pro Tools using plug-ins and automation
3. Teaches to organize and back up your work like a pro
4. Import a session from the included CD-ROM and perform drum edits, guitar and bass fixes, and multi-track song edits
5. Covers Macintosh and Windows
6. The author is a veteran producer, engineer, and musician. He owns his own studio and has worked with a variety of artists including R.E.M., Cowboy Junkies, The Indigo Girls, and Widespread Panic.
7. Peter Buck of R.E.M. will write the book"s foreword
   

Take full advantage of all the powerful features of this book.

Part I: Making a Home Demo
1: Getting Comfortable with Your Pro Tools System
2: Starting a New Session from Scratch
3: Tracking and Overdubbing
4: Basic Editing Techniques
5: The Pro Tools Virtual Mixer

Part II: The Doormats Session
6: Fixing the Drums
7: Bass and Guitar Fixes
8: Audio Quality Issues
9: Using a Click in Grid Mode

Part III: The Honeywagon Session
10: Working with Loops
11: Bring on the Band
12: Working with Vocals
13: Advanced Mixing Techniques

Part IV: Appendixes
A: Changing the Monitor Display Resolution
B: Cheat Sheets and Function Key Labels
C: Troubleshooting
D: Formatting Hard Drives for Pro Tools
E: Speeding Up Your Computer
F: About the Session Disc

Review

Introduction

• Digidesign, maker of Pro Tools, earned $136 million last year while discovering that no serious recording studio' and no serious home hobbyist' can live without Pro Tools
• Star Power' Peter Buck of R.E.M. will wrote the book's foreword, and the author worked with the likes of R.E.M., The Indigo Girls, Cowboy Junkies, and Widespread Panic
• Written to a broad audience, perfect for beginning, intermediate, and advanced producers, sound engineers, and musicians
• CD-ROM will include sessions that will provide hands-on instruction for drum edits, guitar and bass fixes, multi-track song edits, and more

Description

This expertly written guide will show you exactly why Pro Tools shrinks a full music studio into a computer, replacing the bulky recording infrastructure of multi-track analog mixing boards and rolls of two-inch-wide magnetic tape. Ideal for beginning, intermediate, and advanced producers, sound engineers, and musicians.

Author Biography

John Keane (Athens, GA) is a veteran producer, engineer, and musician. He owns his own studio in Athens, GA and has worked with a variety of artists including R.E.M., Cowboy Junkies, The Indigo Girls, and Widespread Panic. He has been using Pro Tools since 1991. Check out the albums on which John has worked at http://johnkeanestudios.com/discography.htm

Powerful Pro this is very easy tried , as John Keane looks out for this revolutionary set of tools.

This book is well set up as the reader will get power at hand. I would like to recommend this book to a musicians and consultants in the media field.