Classical Recording

A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85706-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Audio Engineering Society Presents

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music, providing detailed descriptions, diagrams, and photographs of fundamental recording techniques such as the Decca tree, post-production workflow, and the practicalities of working on location.

This updated and revised second edition has expanded sections on critical listening and microphone placement troubleshooting, as well as two new chapters on overdubbing and the audiovisual considerations of filming a classical music performance. The book gives practical advice on the other essential skills involved in successfully producing a classical recording, including: the practicalities of running a recording session on location, the skills needed as producer, working in imperfect surroundings, using artificial reverberation alongside the real thing, dealing with overdubs, working with sound and picture, workflow from session to edit suite, and creating a seamless edited master. 

Written by engineers with years of experience working for Decca and Abbey Road Studios and as freelancers, Classical Recording equips the student, the interested amateur, and the practising professional, with the required knowledge and confidence to tackle everything from a solo piano to an opera, and a choir or symphony orchestra.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haigh, Caroline

Dunkerley, John

Rogers, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Akustik, Tontechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Musik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Akustik, Schwingungsanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Partituren, Autographen, Libretti, Liederbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Before Recording 1. Listening Skills 2. Acoustics And The Recording Venue 3. Studio Techniques And Working On Location Part 2: Recording 4. Basic Two-Microphone Stereo Techniques 5. Solo Instruments 6. The Piano 7. Voice – Solo and Accompanied 8. Solo Instruments With Piano 9. The Decca Tree 10. Ancillary Microphones 11. Surround Techniques 12. Solo Instruments and Orchestra 13. Chamber Ensembles 14. Wind, Brass And Percussion Bands 15. Organ 16. Choirs 17. Solo Voice, Choir and Orchestra 18. Overdubbing 19. Recording Sound and Picture Together Part 3: After the Recording Session 20. Mixing 21. Editing and Post-Production 22. Mastering for Classical Music

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Haigh spent 18 years working in post-production for Decca and Abbey Road Studios, and is currently an associate lecturer on the Tonmeister course at the University of Surrey, UK. She continues freelance work as a classical producer/editor including for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

John Dunkerley is one of the world’s most highly respected classical recording engineers who learnt his craft with Kenneth Wilkinson at Decca. His 50-year career has included work with countless major artists, and his recordings have won over 15 Grammys. He continues to teach recording techniques.

Mark Rogers worked at Decca, Abbey Road Studios, and Warner Music before becoming a freelance producer/engineer for clients such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Awards for his recordings include a Grammy. He is a University of Surrey Tonmeister graduate, and now visiting lecturer.