Alfred Publishing

Written by highly respected author Stanley R. Alten, Working with Audio provides readers with a fundamental understanding of the principles, technology, and techniques of audio production. This book c...

Written by highly respected author Stan Alten, Recording and Producing Audio for Media introduces readers to the basic techniques and principles necessary for audio production in today's media. Compre...

Produced in association with the Smithsonian and including images from the United States National Music Museum, Music: The Definitive Visual History guides readers through the progression of music sin...

Kurt Cobain filled dozens of notebooks with lyrics, drawings, and writings about his plans for Nirvana and his thoughts about fame, the state of music, and the people who bought and sold him and his m...

The Studio Business Book, Third Edition teaches business managers and entrepreneurs the business skills they need to successfully operate a recording studio. Readers learn every aspect of putting toge...

The Technology Guide for Music Educators is a resource that will help educators accomplish their curricular goals as they relate to software and technology products. This comprehensive and compact pac...

Unlike many other books on the market, Musicianship in the Digital Age effectively combines music technology with musicianship. The book provides instruction on sequencing, synthesis, loop-based tools...

Here, There, and Everywhere is the story of The Beatles' amazing recording sessions at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, as told by Geoff Emerick. Emerick started out as a staff engineer at the studio and eve...

A revealing insider's account of Led Zeppelin's 1975 North American tour from the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods. As a young music journalist in 1975, Stephen Davis got the opportunity of a...

A culturally astute, often funny, and painstakingly researched read, Jagger offers a far richer portrait than biographies published previously. The book reveals much about his relationships (with Mari...

A love song to an American icon: the first full-length biography of Carly Simon, from an acclaimed music journalist who has known her for decades. Carly Simon has won two Grammys and an Academy Award,...

The roots of unaccompanied vocal music stretch all the way back to Gregorian chants of the Middle Ages, and collegiate a cappella is over a century old. But what was once largely an Ivy League phenome...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Teaching Music on Your Own offers current and prospective teachers all of the tools they need to start and run a profitable, respected studio. This comprehensive guide co...

Written in clear, concise language, The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary spans the gamut of musical knowledge, making it indispensable to any musician. Covering various terms, theories, instrum...

Whether you make narratives, documentaries, news shows, training videos, podcasts, games, or some other media, sound has a great impact on what people see, believe, and remember. When you dedicate att...

How do I become a studio singer? What must I do in preparation for that career? What should I know before I go into my first recording session? The Professional Studio Vocalist answers these real-worl...

For many years, recording voiceovers was the exclusive domain of commercial studios. Even a simple voice audition meant a trip to a studio, an ad agency, or an agent's office. Today, voiceover actors...

Don't sign a recording contract before reading this book! The Musician's Legal Companion (2nd Edition) gets to the core of the legal issues you need to know about in clear, straightforward language. H...

Artists on Recording Techniques examines the recording process through an unlikely pair of eyes: those of the artist. Who better to share insights into capturing the creative process than the artists...

Your Pro Tools Studio gives you the information you need to set up your own home or project studio using Pro Tools LE or M-Powered as your digital audio workstation (DAW). You'll learn how to decide w...

This book gives both aspiring and seasoned songwriters a powerful new approach to writing songs, focusing on common obstacles in the songwriting process and techniques to help songwriters overcome the...

Pro Tools for Video, Film, & Multimedia offers comprehensive coverage of the extensive multimedia features of Pro Tools, giving you the skills you need to take any multimedia soundtrack project from c...

Although many musicians use Reason to create music in their home studios, its instruments and sequencer are also extremely well-suited for live performance. Using Reason Onstage: Skill Pack quickly sh...

How to choose and use microphones was once a skill passed down from senior sound engineers to their assistants as they would listen and learn by observation. Today, few large studios have assistant en...

Veteran music journalist Rick Clark conducted hundreds of revealing interviews with some of the biggest names in the industry to create this newly expanded and refined edition of this extraordinary bo...