eBooks serve an important role in today’s audio production world. They offer an alternative means for learning that can go into greater detail on topics over and above what online video content can. One in which you can control the pace. Video is perfect for a rich learning experience but it is more difficult to skim things you already understand and to review things you need to go over again. Text and pictures are perfect for this. If you’re hungry to learn new and exciting audio production skills, then eBooks are well worth a read.
Many free eBooks are available online, published by a great many audio production developers covering specific audio production topics such as mixing, mastering and studio acoustics. In this article, we list a number of free eBooks we’ve read and recommend you check out today to help you level up your audio production skills.
Free eBooks On Music Production And Mixing
What defines a good mix will always be subjective, but many one-size-fits-all mixing workflows can help you in your everyday production. One of the best ways to improve one’s mixing talents is to learn from professional engineers. As an example, understanding reasons why a pro used a specific EQ curve on a drum mix is a lesson far more significant than how they used that EQ.
The eBook below provides excellent insight into the production mindsets of a famous rock track engineered by Jacquire King.
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Learn How Sex On Fire By Kings Of Leon Was Produced? Free eBook Chapter
This article is a chapter from How Pros Make Hits by our friend Tom Frampton who gave us permission to share this section exclusively with The Production Expert Community, enjoy. Kings of Leon worked with record producer, engineer, and mixer Jacquire King to create Sex On Fire and the rest of the album. King utilizes traditional analog approaches combined with modern technologies to get an incredible sound for the artists he works with. This chapter explores this production and unearths the approaches that helped drive its success.
Free eBooks On Acoustics And Studio Monitoring
Understanding how room acoustics impact the performance of your recording and mixing environments is one of the most significant challenges in audio production. To get a listening environment you can trust, you may need to get your head around a fair amount of maths and science but don’t let that put you off. Luckily, there’s a lot you can achieve in terms of improving the performance of your studio if you apply some common sense. The eBooks below provide excellent insight into the best methods for setting up studio monitors, including useful tips to help your mixes translate better out of the studio into the real world.
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Learn How To Improve Your Recording Studio's Listening Conditions To Get Translatable Mixes - Free eBook
This free eBook written by industry professionals sharing a variety of ways you can control the listening conditions in your studio in order for you to produce mixes that translate. We have the download link.
Want To Improve Your Mixes? Free E-book To Show You How To Setup Your Monitors And Get Better Mix Space
Download your free 48 page copy of Sonarworks “Successful Studio Setup” e-book, in which they explain how to go about setting up the perfect listening environment for critical mixing workflows in home recording studios. The book covers both monitoring on loudspeakers as well as monitoring on studio headphones. Well worth checking out.
Free eBooks On Audio Production Software
At first glance, eBooks based on specific audio production software may puzzle you. After all, what’s the point in eBooks when manuals are available with products? That’s a valid point, but eBooks differ from product manuals. Manuals generally explain how to use the controls in the product covering set up through to troubleshooting. Ebooks are usually less rigid, often speaking from a user’s point of view covering real-world applications in context.
The following eBooks below are well worth checking out if you are a user of Softube’s Console 1, Waves, UAD or Pro Tools.
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FREE 3D Audio Guide From Sound Particles - Get Your Copy Now
Sound Particles, a 3D audio software company have just released a new free eBook “All You Need to Know About 3D Audio”. Their goal is to help professionals around the world to transition into the immersive audio field. We have all the details…
Download Your Free Copy Of Softube's Console 1 Power Tips eBook Users Guide
Softube’s Console 1 has no drawbacks, it’s a control surface only limited by your imagination and creativity. That’s why Softube recently published a free ebook which lists 7 cool Console 1 power users tips that demonstrate intricate time saving Console 1 tasks. Softube say these tips help their Console 1 users to work faster and produce better mixes every time.
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Free Mixing Music In Dolby Atmos - Get Your Ebook Guide From HHB
Whilst people are working from home, self-isolating, or putting newly found free time towards personal development, our friends at HHB, a UK based pro-audio dealer and installer, have put together a free starter guide and Pro Tools template to help users get to grips with mixing music in Dolby Atmos.
The A-Z Of Waves - Interactive eBook Download Now For Free
In 2016 we started The A-Z Of Waves. In this series, we featured a range of Wave plug-ins in alphabetical order. We completed this series recently and decided to collate all the posts from this series to produce an interactive 59 page eBook including extra free Waves tutorial videos.
The A-Z Of UAD - The Entire Series
Over the last few months, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers has been meticulously posting the A-Z of UAD. A veritable treasure chest of information and tips and the UAD platform and associated plugins.
Now the series is complete we've curated the entire series into this single post for those who missed parts of the A-Z of UAD Series.
The A-Z Of Pro Tools - Interactive eBook Download Now For Free
Get Julian's excellent A-Z of Pro Tools series in a interactive 67 page eBook in PDF for and even better it is free, no sign-ups, no email address, just our gift to the Pro Tools community.
Our eBook suggestions in the list have been compiled from posts we have published on Production Expert over the years. We only ever suggest eBooks we’ve read from digital cover to cover and feel their content is valuable for our community. If there are some audio production eBooks you feel are worth a read please suggest them in the comments section below.
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Dan Cooper
Dan Cooper is a London based Multi-Instrumentalist, Arranger, Music Producer and Mixer who is also a graduate from The BRIT School Of Performing Arts. He has worked with countless musicians and songwriters across London and Kent from his studio at the end of his garden.
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