Description

Recording Tips for Music Educators: A Practical Guide for Recording School Groups provides a go-to guide for music educators to plan and execute a successful recording project for school groups. For those teachers who are not comfortable with the recording process, this book functions as a catalyst to becoming comfortable with the planning, execution, and use of a school recording project.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Richard McCready
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Getting Started Recording Your Group
What are My First Steps?
Microphone Placement
Should You Use Microphones for Every Section?
Summary
2. Recording During a Rehearsal in the Rehearsal Room
Recording in Small Rehearsal Spaces
Microphone placement and Proximity
Overhead Microphone Placement
Directional Microphone Placement
Playback and Evaluation
Using the Recording as a Teaching Tool
Summary
3. Recording in an Auditorium or Large Space
Recording in a Large Space
Microphone Placement and Proximity
Use of Multiple Microphones
Hand-held Devices
Summary
4. Recording Jazz Ensembles, Show Choirs and Groups with Amplifiers
Recording Smaller Groups
Recording Groups that Move on Stage
Summary
5. Recording Away from School
Recording in an unfamiliar space
Use of a stereo pair only
Making adjustments for the unexpected
Summary
6. Recording in Areas That are not Acoustically Treated
Recording Outside Performances
Hand-held Devices
Recording in Poorly Treated Areas
Summary
7. Mixing a Performance Recording
What is a Mixer/Soundboard?
Analog and Digital Mixers
Starting the Mixing Process
Getting the Right Balances to Keep the Live Performance Feel
Using a Mixing Board in Post-Production
Summary
8. Mastering a Performance
What is Mastering?
How to Get a Good Master?
What are the Final Steps?
Mastering Yourself
Finalizing Your Master
Summary
9. Developing a Budget
How Much Should be Spent on Equipment?
Where Can I Get the Funding for Equipment?
How Much Can I Expect to Spend on Equipment?
Hand-held Devices
Soundboards
Sample Budget
Summary
10. Selecting the Best Equipment
What Should be Considered when Deciding on Microphones?
What Kinds of Cables Will be Best?
What Kind of Mixing Board is Needed?
Preamps
Summary
Appendix A
Appendix B
Glossary
Index