Pro Tools Recording Guide + CD

    Learn to Create Professional Quality Recordings with Pro Toolsฎ!
    Pro Tools is quickly establishing itself as the standard software in digital recording, and is available in a variety of versions from free to professional level. Pro Tools Recording Guide teaches musicians and other audio professionals how to record, engineer, and produce music using Pro Tools 6.1, the latest version of the software. Throughout the book, hands-on labs and tutorials focus on the essential features of the program and guide readers through every step of an audio production. Each step of the project includes practical advice on how to handle different situations that might arise, and easy-to-consume sidebars cover the more technical details. The book begins with setting up the studio, and then guides users through the complete process of recording tracks, mixing to a stereo track, and mastering the final tracks. Along the way, it teaches everything from properly recording tracks to using compression, EQ, and other audio processors with Pro Tools.

Chapter 1 Installing and Setting Up Pro Tools
Chapter 2 The Pro Tools User Interface
Chapter 3 Dealing with Sessions
Chapter 4 Configuring Pro Tools
Chapter 5 Getting Ready to Record
Chapter 6 Recording Tracks
Chapter 7 Adding New Tracks with Overdubbing
Chapter 8 Punching-In and Virtual Tracks
Chapter 9 Adding MIDI Tracks
Chapter 10 Getting Ready to Edit
Chapter 11 Manipulating and Editing Audio
Chapter 12 Getting Ready to Mix
Chapter 13 Mixing a Session
Chapter 14 Basic Mastering Tasks
Chapter 15 Session Management
Appendix A Pro Tools Preinstallation
Appendix B Dealing with Latency
Appendix C About the CD-ROM

Clayton Walnum (Tolland, CT) has been a professional musician for nearly 20 years. He received formal studio training with the Recording Institute of America and has engineering and produced demo albums for a number of bands. He is also an accomplished author who has written a number of books, including The Complete Idiot's Guige to Home Recording Illustrated, Direct3D Programming Kick Start, and Teach Yourself Game Programming with DirectX in 21 Days.