Peachpit Press Releases Recording Guide (press release)

Now, using Pro Tools-a digital-audio workstation-you can record professional demos at home on your own computer, edit tracks, add effects, and even output songs to a CD. But if you’re new to working with sound digitally, you face a daunting learning curve. Getting your music gear to work with your desktop computer or laptop-and producing dfresults that you like-involves some unfamiliar tools and concepts.

Author Gina Fant-Saez knows first-hand how frustrating it can be when you first make the move to using this complex, studio-quality audio application. Rather than overwhelm you with every detail of the program and complicated terminology or functions you’ll never use, Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters teaches only the essentials you need to record, enhance, and output your music.

With downloadable audio files from www.protoolsformusicians.com to help you get started, Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters will show you how to:

• Use a metronome (click track) or percussion loop to help keep time when recording
• Record and combine multiple takes to create one seamless composition
• Edit tracks with crossfades, panning, doubling, automation more
• Add and manipulate plug-in effects, such as reverb
• Share Pro Tools files with other musicians around the globe
• Output a finished composition to a CD

Although this guide is directed primarily at professional songwriters and musicians who’ve been previously intimidated by technology, it will speak to anyone-professional or amateur, computer experience or not-who’s interesting in recording music with Pro Tools.

To purchase or find early reviews of the book (and even some used ones already for sale), check out the book’s official page at Amazon.com.

See BloggingMuses.com’s own review ProTools For Musicians & Songwriters.