Dance Music Manual - a comprehensive guidebook for novice and seasoned professionals alike - walks readers through the tools and techniques required to create original, captivating, and professional-sounding electronic dance music.
Dance Music Manual – a comprehensive guidebook for novice and seasoned professionals alike – walks readers through the tools and techniques required to create original, captivating and professional-sounding electronic dance music.
Key features of the Dance Music Manual include the following:
- Learn to navigate the complex world of electronic music production.
- Unleash your creativity with practical advice, insider tips and expert techniques.
- Explore the intricacies of crafting infectious grooves and sculpting sounds.
- From beginner to expert, this comprehensive guide illuminates every aspect of producing, mixing and mastering dance music.
Used by professionals worldwide, this updated fifth edition has been significantly rewritten and includes new content on building your studio, processing, sampling, sound design and a chapter on DJ techniques.
A companion website supports the book by providing audio and video examples of the techniques.
1. The Secrets of Dance Music Production
2. Computers and Audio
Interfaces
3. Monitors and Headphones
4. The DAW
5. Designing and Connecting
Your Studio
6. Audio Engineering
7. Aliasing and Latency
8. Hearing
Protection
9. Music Theory
10. Chords in Music
11. Harmonic Function
12. The
Essentials of Rhythm
13. Synthesis
14. The Art of Sampling
15. The Art of
Sound Design: Developing Listening Skills
16. The Art of Sound Design:
Practical Skills
17. Modular Synthesis
18. Dynamics and Compression
19. The
Art of Compression
20. Further Processing
21. Frequency Fundamentals
22.
Effects
23. Mixing Desk Structure
24. Metering, Levels and Gain
25. The
Importance of Kick Drums
26. Creating Drum Loops
27. Steps To Creating a
Track
28. Recording Technology
29. The Art of Recording
30. Working With
Vocals and Samples
31. Arranging Your Music
32. The Theory Behind Mixing
33.
The Art of Mixing
34. The Art of Mastering
35. The Art of the DJ
Rick Snoman is a British music producer, educator and author. He owns Altar Recording Studios, a studio dedicated to modern EDM production, mixing, mastering and training.
With a career spanning decades, he has mixed, mastered and produced for artists signed to ToolRoom, Anjuna, Spinnin and XL recordings and worked with prominent EDM artists such as Nicky Holloway. He held a keynote at NAMM and, as chair for EDM for the Audio Engineering Society, presented on EDM production in New York, Los Angeles and Dublin. Snomans extensive expertise in many genres of EDM production and technology has made him a respected figure in the field.
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